The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-09-27
GOOD RESULTS IN
ORCHARD MEETS
Apple Crop is Light but
Fruit is Good
PRICE FOR APPLES
WILL BE 81 A BUSHEL.

Monroe, Pike and Wayne counties,
called at The Citizen office, last
Thursday afternoon, on his way
home from holding the Fall orchard
meetings.
To show up the results of spray
ing, he brought with him some per-
feet specimens of apples. And they
were beauties, to say the least
We have just been holding our
Fall orchard meetings" he said, sat
F. w. Osgood's, Ariel, and Judge
Searle's farm, Siko, and Anthony
Stump's, Pike county.
These are our demonstration or
chards, where we do our work.
We've had good results. OF course
the crop is light, but what fruit
there is, is very good.
The object is to grow perfect
fruit. Those apples," he said, point
ing to the specimens of the Blush,
Pound Sweet, and Sixteen Ounce
varieties, he had with him, "are free
from scabs, worms, and all dis
eases.
" 1t was an awfully busy time, we
struck for our inspection trip.
Everybody is cutting corn or dig
ging potatoes. A week later, we
would probably have had a good at
tendance.
" We began at Osgood's on the
18th. On the 10Th, we went to
Judge Searles, and to Stumps on
the goth. 1t was the first season
with Judge Searle's orchard, but the
second with the other two orchards
1t awakened them quite a little.
| heard a number say they would
spray next year. 1t shows up so
plain, the benefit from spraying, that
they can't get around it,
The apples are very knotty ana
inferior in Wayne county, where
there was no spraying. There'll be
no more fall orchard business this
year.
4 don't know as 1 can answer
your question why the crop is so
light this year. The dry weather
probably, and it is generally believ-
ed the hot weather at the time the
trees were in bloom had something
to do with it. 1t was awfully hot
and the petals and blossoms dried
up, turned brown and fell to the
ground.
g | think likely we'll inspect right
up till Winter. Then we'll probably
visit the demonstration orchards and
do pruning in the forepart of the
Winter, after We are through spray
ing. We worked all Winter last
Winter.
Mr.. Osgood got a splendid crop
at Ariel. His trees are loaded. He
estimates 500 bushels, and that's a
small orchard. In our model or
chard at Berlin, there'll be apples
sold there.
81 think apples will probably
bring 81 a bushel for good Winter
apples.
=" saw plum trees that have been
sprayed, loaded to the ground. I
don't know of plum orchard in the
county. Most farmers have just
few trees for their own use. There
are no commercial pear orchards. |
don't know of one. Apples are the
best fruit we can market or ship"
" If you had farm, what kind of
fruit would you plant?" was asked.
I'D plant either apples or
peaches" answered Mr.. Bullock,
" probably both. There's more
money in peaches than any other
crop, If you got market. But
they're fruit that you can't keep
long. That's one trouble. They
run in money fast, if you got a good
l tell you.
" Yes, we've got one supervision
orchard that don't give good re-
suits. We can't always get them to
do what we want them to do"
How's the chestnut crop, this
year." was inquired.
There's quite a good many chest
nuts" was Mr.. Bullock's reply.
. It's great year for nuts, hickory
nuts and beechnuts. That's some
thing we haven't had for several
years now"
Wormy as usual?"
oh yes. Well, it's caused by the
chestnut weevil. The egg is laid in
the nut. 1t matches there and feeds
there. l don't know how we could
handle them. If they fed on the
leaf, we could spray. Chestnuts is a
little out of our line"
Mr. Bullock is one of the twenty
two horticultural experts appointed
by State Economical Zoologist H. A.
Surface, whose business it is to go
up and down the broad acres of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
preaching in season and out to the
farmers that their only hope of or
chard salvation is to spray their
trees. And these men do preach
some purity powerful sermons, too.