The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-12-22

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bearing with any expectation OF max
ing money out of it unless you are
willing to put both time and money
into 1t after it reaches the bearing
stage. and there is probably nothing
in western agriculture that will pay
YOU better for the time and money
you spend than this same orchard,
provided you spend enough. And at
the same time there Is nothing in
western agriculture in which per-
son can make as great a failure as
they can in orchard work. The peo-
pie of the east with the great mar
kets of our country right at their
doors often make a fair amount Of
money on orchards that receive lit
tie or no care. They raise cheap,
| inferior product, but, being close to
| the markets with little or no freight
charge to pay, they may be able to
still dispose of it at profit. With
us of the intermountain region, the
problem is quite different. The
freight on box of apples from here
as the Ohio man gets for his apples.
In order therefore, that We may get
anything for our product, we must
put on to the eastern markets a pro-
duct that Is in every way superior to
homegrown and will command a SUI
perior price An apple grower in
the state of Ohio has approximately
100000 people who want his apples
within a radius of 100 miles. The
intermountain fruit grower has on
the other hand less than 100000
people to eat his apples within ra-
dius of 500 miles, and practically all
of the world markets open to his pro-
ducts are from 1000 TO 1000 miles
from his door and worse than all
this, those miles are in every case
over the worst of mountain roads,
with heavy grades and high freight
charges. A box of apples selling at
$3.50 or $500, or, in case of our
fancy fruit, sometimes much more,
may yield handsome returns. If it
costs $1.10 to produce a box of ap-
Piles that sell for $1.O0 and conse-
quent loss, $12O may produce a box
of apples that will sell for 5000 and
handsome profit. Where, then,
shall we spend the extra 10 cents
per bushel.
The first requirement of a market
able apple is that it be free from
worms. Two and half to three
cents, therefore, must go to spraying
that box of apples and when we say
spray in the western country, we
mean Straightforward, persistent, in
telligent work. We have as the re-
suit of a good many years of effort
developed method of spraying
which can be depended upon to give
results.
The important features of this
method are, first that you have an
outfit capable of handling a consid-
cradle amount of liquid at constant
pressure of $50 to 200 pounds. The
largest size of barrel pumps-double
acting pumps, and power outfits will
all do this, and it makes no differ
ence which one of these outfits you
have. With reference to the effic-
iency of the spraying, the best spray
ing that has ever been done in this
state and as good as has ever been
done in any state has been done with
a Pomona Barrel outfit, costing $22>
but that outfit must have one access
sorry that is hard to purchase in the
open market, and that is a man with
a head on him to run it. There are
certain accessories besides the man
that are also necessary in order to
do good work,-25 feet of 7-ply h Sc,
a bamboo pole, 10 to 10 feet in
length, crook ON the end of this
pole, and on this a nozzle that will
throw coarse spray five or six feet
before it breaks into a mist. With
this outfit and a platform or tower
20 that the man handling the nozzle
can get above the trees and spray
Town into the calyx cups, spray side
wise into those that stand out on the
side, spray up into those that turn
DOWN below, taking care to see that
every single blossom on the tree re-
'elves Its share of the poison, truly
efficient spraying can be done.
The number of times to spray and
he poison to use are questions that
must be settled by local conditions.
Lead arsenate at present prices, five
pounds to 100 gallons, is probably
w 6oou q poASou DIS Eau Ue uSoQ. fdT-
S Green, one-third of pound to
'arrel, has, however, given just as
'ood results, where there was not too
much rain or dampness at spraying
line. The number of sprayings de-
lends on the number of worms the
PREVIOUS year. II uncertain in re-
'ard to this factor, spray twice, once
ust as soon as the blossoms fall
rom the trees, and again in ten days
# two weeks. Band every tree with
'ood heavy burlap bands and if there
ppears more than two to three Der
ent of worms in the first brood.
hen spray again two or three times
or the second brood. If the orchard
loses the season with only two or
hree per cent wormy or even five
er cent, it will be fairly safe to cut
ne early sprayings down to one and
hen watch for the movement of the
vorms as before to see If later SPRAYS
hould be given.
Don't leave this car with the idea
hat / have said that one spraying
I'LL control the codling moth. l know
ozens of orchards that have not been
prayed more than once a year for