Arizona republican., 1910-05-18
HOW THE WEST DOES THINGS
Some Folks Think It's Time to Talk
 of Retaining the East.

Miss Agnes C. Laut who knows Irobably more about the West than does any other woman or most men says in the Review of Reviews that it is high time people stopped talking so much about 'recIairhingr the west and turned in to reclaim the east
 As shining example for eastern farmers she tells about d fruit grower neur Grand Valley. Col. who last year made q net profit of $500 from d ten-acre apple orchard
 "ls it the fruit. or the soil. or the sunlight, or the water. or what" she asked him
 It's all of them" he answered. but most or all it's our new methods. When bought this place was a commercial traveller. The orchard had been set out by e retired clergyman and il was just coming on to bear. about twelve years old It had been set out pretty well. as you see. not d single experimental tree. every one a tested variety and good producer
 T think il a lot safer for the new conner to buy an orchard coming on to bear if he can afford it If com l''a'E S'A9 'hA N'hi llftS anu cares TOT them it may be all right or it may be all wrong. They may not be the right varieties or they may not polIenize properly or they may not be cared for while they are growing to keep them free of disease.
 T don't like these orchards with gross under them. It harburs too many bugs and I don't like trees that have been grown too high and gone all to branch. Your fruit will be bruised in the picking. and high trees are expensive to spray"
 Do you spray often?' Miss L.au; asked. thinking of q fruit county in the east, where there is only one or chdrdist who sprays at all in that county and he is an outsider, and he sprays only once year.
 spray often? 1 keep two men at $50 month each spraying all sum mer. We don't wait till the bugs come. We spray. spray. spray all the time and keep 'em from ever coming You see on this whole twenty acres there is not one single blade of grass growing the size of pin It takes work to keep that down with con Sldiil SupfIS or moisture rom the ditch.
 The idea is to keep the soil soft as dust. dust blanket to hold the mois- turc. Besides I think. and 4 good many fruit growers think with me. that q lot of bitter weeds growing be- low trees taints the flavor of the more delicate fruits. Anyway all that undergrowth takes away strength that should Go into the tree
 our first great danger is the frost You know the altitude of this valley IS 5000 fcet-that's pretty high. dry. clear. sunny air. and the blossominC comes on in spring before the frosts have gone. For years the spring frosts were nightmare to this val ley. We used to sit up over night and sweat blood over it. the way the wheat farmers do out in your north west in August
 Well. about once in three or four years we'd be caught. and the fellows who had bought their land on the in stalment plan were all balled out. couldn't meet cost of water and labor Some of us got together and began to try cheap wrinkles with small coal oil and coal burners.
 We found to keep the temperattlre above the freezing point those cold est spring nights it would take from thirty to forty small coal oil burners an acre at cost of about s26. We like the coal oil burners best. be-