Arizona republican., 1910-11-26
MESA
MESA PRECAUTIONS
 AGAINST FROST
The Orange Growers Have Varying
 Ideas.


 | trees planted in the Mesa section last spring. will survive the frost of tho coming winter is assured by the va riety and warmth of the various gar | ments with which they are dressed | It is also an assured fact that il ! there is any assured method of pro | tecting young trees from the frost one or more of the Mesa growers will | have discovered it, providing of | course that there happens to be a ! frost of sufficient severity to demon strate the fact
 J. L. Waring believed that tight facing is conclusive to keeping out frost, if not, to the keeping in of the heat already there. Mir. Waring | has trimmed all of his trees unti. they have taken on the form of the proverbial slender maiden. To fur ther carry out the idea he has dress ed them with corn stalks. tied to- gether at the bottom giving the ef- feet of the "hobble skirt" Again at point midway between the top and bottom tight string gives each tree the appearance of the classic slender waist; the last cord tied around a place representing the neck is suffi- cicntly tight to keep Jack Frost from descending through the top. The only thing necessary to make the grove look like twenty acres of young maidens would be d bonnet placed upon each head
 Jack Fraser although a bachelor. thinks he knows more about clothes than Mir Waring who is q married man, and believes that Mir. Waring has only partially dressed his young trees. Mir. Fraser believes in addi- tiOn to the outer garments. as used on the Waring grove. the tender young trees would be better protected from the frost by wearing under gar ments. For this purpose he has wrap ped each trunk with a newspaper and then tied the corn stalks outside of that Instead of placing tight col lar around the neck. MT. Fraser has left the windpipe open for winter breathing. and when the thermom- eter gets sufficiently low his men will pack a gunny sack into the throat of each tree thereby prevent ing Jack Frost travelling down along the trunk.
 Donald Mcqueen, coming as he does. from rugged old Scotch stock believes that the clothes his ancestors wore were about the right thing to keep out the cold SO Donald takes gunny sack. cuts off the bottom to give the effect of skirt and draws one of these over the head of each ,,l i'm, fp ly, l,. skirt stick out at the bottom he has his Mexican Kilties'' go oyer the grove and stuff each skirt with straw
 Mrs. Ridberg has very sensiby wrapped the trunks of her trees with paper. then applied the gunny sack and over all wrapped corn fodder. believing that if there is anything at all in the ideas of the others, by using a little of each. she can get what benefit there is tn be derived.
 The Palmer brothers who perhaps have given more real thought to the question than any of the others. be- lieve that nature provides everything that is necessary to protect young orange trees against frost in the Salt RiNtI NdllfN dtt utifnllHE entirely upon the dormant condition of their trees for the protection of the tops and the trunk has been en- closed in a mound of dirt In this condition the trunks are absolutely safe and the chance of losing the tops is small.
 Jack Lowell has wrapped each trunk with burlap banking it up for q few inches from the ground with dirt and outside of this dropped skirt after the manner of Donald Me Queen.
 Of course, the desirable thing is not to have a frost at all but if frost does come it is hoped that the orange growers of this section will have learned which is the proper method of protecting young trees and in future winters will use more uni- formity in their method of protection
 The Easton baby which underwent n severe operation 8 few weeks ago has heen steadily improving
 Clarence Baldwin and family spent Thanksgiving in Phoenix. He return cd this morning bringing with him a handsome FoxhOund' dog, which has taken two blue ribbons at the Ari-