Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-03-23

small, Offering in these respects from
the William Belt.
In one instance Mr.. Russell receiv-
ed $3.50 as the gross income from
one acre. the first crop bringing $500
and the second $3.50. After the first
crop is harvested be cuts foliage
and rakes It on.
w. N. Yost of Meridian had on
exhibition some fine Yellow New
towns and upon request made some
statements with regard to this APP
pie and also the Delicious. Grimes
Golden and White Winter Pearmain.
Mr.. Yost has 200 yellow Newtown
trees. His observation has shown that
the Newtown Is not susceptible to
hot sun, that 1t is even nigrowth
hardy and able to Withstand hard
knocks. 1t spuds up well and has to
be thinned. If the Jonathan should
fall down as the leader among the
southwestern Idaho commercial ap-
pies he would take it as his first
choice. 1t is a regular bearer and
is very resistant to adverse condi-
tions. The apples hang we'll Grown
in the Boise valley it has a better
flavor than the Hood River Newtown.
It should be picked late as one or
two frosts improve the apple and it
will actually grow some after a
frost has occurred. He believes Dit
good variety for Boise valley. At
tention was called to the fact that
there is a Yellow Newtown and a
Green Newtown. The former is the
better of the two, being omre juicy
and not so acid.
The Grimes Golden, though a great
yielder, is very SUSCEPTIBLE to body
blight" very much like the Jonathan
in that respect 1t is open to the OBJ
lection of falling too readily off the
tree. The skin is also too tender and
the apple is inclined to shrink.
Mr. Yost cautioned against toe
much enthusiasm over the Delicious
Though it is certainly a fine tree and
very hardy fruit has a poor, unat
tractive color. Personally, he is moi
taken with its flavor.
The White Winter Pearmain is
hardy and a most rapid grower. 1t Il
inclined to have long slender branch
es and these must be looked after
The tree sun scales badly and this
affects the quality of the fruit 1t il
a good keeper, but not as good al
the yellow Newtown.
Mr.. Pittinger of Nampa has founC
the Grimes Golden a good CONNER
cial apple. 1t yields heavily and a
far as he has observed does not SUI
scale to any extent.
c. R. Greison, assistant editor o
Better Fruit, said that the demand
for yellow apples is decreasing AM
that the red apple is gaining favo
in England, France and other for
eign markets for Aerican apples. TIL
growing of yellow apples is beini
overdone, great quantities being pro
duced at jacksonville, Cal He callel
attention to the specks that usuall
occur at the stem end of the Vel
low Newtown. which detract from
its appearance At Hood river the
pick them greener so that they d.
not have the specks.
j. F. Ldttooy of Mountain Home
advised fruit growers to go SLOW
in planting the yellow Newtown
He, however, thought that a limite
, amount may well be planted.
AS to the keeping qualities of tn
Delicious he said that it water core
like the King. He said the Idah
grown Delicious keeps we'll and a
long as the Rome Beauty. 1t is a.
; apple whose color alone does not sci
1t on the retail fruit stands, but tina
. when its flavor is known it sells vel
1t is ready to eat when it comes Of
. the tree.
c. ]. Sinsel said that the Deliciou
does not sell as well on the Spokan
. market as the Jonathan. The fiv
points at the blossom end bruise yer
readily At Spokane apple show h
found that in a car load lot of De
licious one to five apples in each DO
we're decayed.
J. F. Littooy said that the reaso
for those Delicious at Spokane goin
down was no doubt due to the fac
that they we're grown in a low alt
tude. A slight increase in growth al