The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-11-22
TRUIT-GRONING IN THE WEST.
Farmer Who Uses Oil Heaters to Pro
tect Trees and Strawberry Fields
From Damage by COld-VarieticS.
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W~adesboro, N. Clown here
n this balmy climate it not
seem to us that artificial means Q.
warming the ground would ever be-
come necessary; and, in fact, a story
Of oil heaters, used to keep the chill
from plants, sounds very much like 3
fairy tale. However,, it has been done
and is being done in the colder climate
L the West. The story illustrates the
truth that successful farming depends
more on the man behind the farno
than on quality of land or climatic
conditions.
The man behind the farm" who
vim these days, regardless of the sur
~oundings, wins because he has
learned the needs Of both land and
Innate, and has mastered the art o.
culture and fertilization.
This is the story OF a Kansas fruit
farmer, who for years has taken pre-
rniums at fairs at Hutchinson. Wichita
Topeka. Winfield and other places IL
he Sunfower State, and people have
marVeled at his fruit and wondered
low he produced such results.
George ". Brown lives near Win
ield, Kan, and when the buds on til
Frut begin TO swell in the spring, am
he weather forecast is for a killinc
frost, as frequently happens, he does
OF worry or fret, but goes out int.
H. 1 dIiu iDCI1y DilcICS an
lights 1900 crude oil burners thai are
@cattered judiciously over his Is acree
If fruit. The he returns to the house
md rests peacefully, knowing tina a
protecting covering of heat hovere
fver his fruit farm throughout tn.
billy night.
What do you think Of that?
Mr.. Brown went to Kansas in 1886
md his father erected one Of the frs-
houses in the town of Leavenworth
from LeaVenworth Mr.. Brown moved
% the farm where he now resid es in
he fal Of 1870. Ten years later he
commenced experiments with fruit.
and has been at it eve since.
Talking one day OF his experiences
Mr.. brown aid
Nhen L try an experiment, I do
not give up the first time. | ALWAYS
tive the particular variety q second
nance. If it does not make good
men, throw it away and forget it.
u tried different kinds Of
pears. setting out. $50 trees. AZ veara
vent by, my success narrowed itself
Gown to the Keller pear, with a few
oarDer pears as a fertilizer. Ana 7
nave found that my pears must not
e cultivated; that | must let weeds
ana rank growth develop amono 49,,
cutting down the Growth in ~ fnm
ms, Tor some reaeon
Keeps away tn blight. ! now ha1a
eishty-nEe pear trees. Three wears
"athered $50 bushels of naarS
from the trees. his year nine bears sea-
, ,roa the trees, laid side by side, meas
Inc most interesting thinc ,.
- iIuit farm at present is the ro.,
eonsi : maze a red raspberry which viii
ION ~ roauc fruit in this sec
Ob;o plant was developed in
ono. have tried it, and found af+a'
!; iei is 10 81 nlallure in other varieties, that
- = me 'one-looked-for producer 49,
expect to plant five acres in tbis ~ W.
maker hied the Hay
ave several acres in blact- a~
Ca MY experiments have sat!e
deve,onad ,hat the Black Cap varie,v
neveioped by a man near Ia , 80
- = 49, whose name I have foreottos'
IS IS tne best for this section. nv sroun;
% ~ = an IN this variety. ooi
lieu eleven different kina.
f haph' fbs rlums, and FOUND t n,aoT Rn OF
the High IT, ga June, the Wickson and
u prefer the Dye House ard ~ cherrles