Arizona republican., 1910-04-10
ORANGE STOCK
 GREAT LOSS OccasiOned By Recent 0p- eraion of Inspection Law ONE THING MADE CLEAR
ONE THING MADE CLEAR
That Nursery Business in Valley is to Have a Boom. What is Already Being Done in This Vicinity

For good many years 1t has been one of the strong talking points of residents of the Salt River valley, that the pests to which orange trees are susceptible could not thrive in this section Various reasons have been given for this apparent existing con dition among which was the statement that the dry hot summers were sure preventive against the damaging bugs and scale that have made such seri- ous inroads on the California groves Whether the various forms of pests can survive in this climate or not has not been thoroughly demonstrated. in fact it is not the desire of the in creasing number of growers to have IL demonstrated. their idea being that the part of preventive is the wiser course to pursue
 From out the fear of the valley growers and prospective growers that there might be an infection of the trees throughout this section. was born the horticultural inspection law II has been said that the law was passed in the interests of the California nur- ser,men in that they would he able to dispose of their stock at higher figure than their competitors the Florida nurseries However it makes little difference whether the law was 'instigatcd by selfish motives or not it is being conceded daily that it is working and that its value will never eff rtul- of community that has heretofore been free from the ills that trees are heir to No more timely example could be cited than the fact that there are eleven thousand trees on the plat form of the local station which have been refused by the horticultural m spactors on account of the discovery of mcaly bugs. The freight charges on the carload of trees amounted {" something like S55O and the value oi the trees is in the neighb"rhood ol S50oG. Not only will there he great loss to the nurseries who shipped the trees but the ranchers who have held their ground in waiting and have even gone so far as to dig the holes will suffer loss. \ good deal of the land will probably lie over for another sea son without a crop which of course mean additional loss
 It is generally believed that there is but one avenue for the prospective grower to pursue and that is to prop agate his own trees or to get trees that have been propogated in the val ley.
 IL is possible for every orchardist to grow his own trees and in fact there are d number "f trees here at the present time that started from the seed in the Salt River valley.
 h. this connection it might be well to explain in detail the plan as fOrmu- lated by J. J. Frazier and Bert Wingar of this place for supplying citrus trees to the growers of the valley as well as for themselves.
 one of the features of the venture undertaken by the gentlemen above referred to is that they recognizing that.t the proposition was new to them. have secured the best assistance in the enterprise that they could.
 At the outset when it became evi- dent that sooner ar later the trees for this valley would have to be propa- Sdltu lltit. MI W iicdl NFlil NO Nsdii- fornia and selected approximately 5000 sprouts which after being sprayed and fumigated were im- mersed in d resin solution which ab- solutely Kills every species of insect life. The trees were then brought to this place where they may he seen OF tho Frazier lot on East Main street The trees are one year from the seed and in a year from this coming fall they will be ready for transplanting in the orchards.
 The loss so far has been very small but it is of course hard matter to determine even approximately just what per cent of loss may be expected since il is q new venture that has never been undertaken in this section. The expert who came from California stated that his losses in that country had been very small but the propriet- ors of the Mesa nursery are cognizant of the fact that since conditions are different that the percentage of loss may be different, they are certainly not expecting to get out any more fortunate than the man who superin- tended the planting of their trees.
 The budding of the trees in the local nursery will of course be an import ant item The trees which are from sour orange seed will be budded to any variety of orange or pomelo or lemon that the growers may desire It will be possible to secure great ma jority of the buds for most any va riety of citrus fruits here in the val ley but in the event that there is call for some particular kind of orange or any other citrus tree it is the in tention to procure those buds neces-