The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-12-14

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 a per-
son can make as great a failure as
they can in orchard work. The CO.
ple OF the east with the great mar
kets of our country right at their
doors often make a fair mount OF
money on orchards that receive lit
tie or no care. They raise a 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 a profit. With
us of the intermountain region, the
problem is quite different. The
freight on a box of apples from here
to Ohio is on the average as much
as the Ohio man gets for his apples.
in order therefore, that We may get
anything for u product, we must
put on to the eastern markets a pro-
duct that is in every way superior to
homegrown and viii 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 10000
people to eat his apples within a 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 S1.10 to produce a box of APP
pies that sell for $1.00 and a conse-
quent loss, $1.20 may produce a box
of apples that will sell for $500 and
a 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 a half to three
cents, therefore, must go to spraying
that box of apples and when we say
spray in the western country, we
mean sprayzthorough, persistent, in
t~elligent work. We have as the re-
suit of a good many years of effort
developed a 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 a constant
pressure of $50 to 200 pounds. The
largest size of barre. Wumps-double
acting pumps, and power outfits will
all do this, and it makes no differ
ence which n of these outfits you
have. With reference to the effic-
iency of the spraying, the best pray
ing hat 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 hat is hard to purchase in the
open market, n that is a man with
a head on him to run it. There are
certain accessories besides the man
are also necessary in order to
do good work,-25 feet of 7-ply h Sc,
a bamboo pole, 10 to II feet in
a crook on the end of this
pole. and on this a nozzle that viii
throw a coarse spray five or six feet
it breaks into a mist. With
his outfit and a platform or tower
30 that the man handling the nozzle
IAN get above the trees and spray
into the calyx cups spray side
wise into those that stand out on the
side, spray up into those thai turn
Town below, taking care to see that
very single blossom on the tree re-
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 a~rsenate at present prices, five
to 100 gallons, is probably
S good a poison as can be used. Par
S Green, one-third of a pound to a
'arrel, has, however, given just as
God results, where there was not too
nuch rain or dampness at spraying
ime. The number of sprayings de-
ends on the number OF worms the
year.. If uncertain in re-
ard to this factor, spray twice, once
as soon as the blossoms fall
the trees, and again in ten days
r two weeks. Band every tree with
GOD heavy burlap bands and if there
ppears more than two to three per
ent of worms in the first brood,
len spray again two or three times
or the second brood. If the orchard
loses the season with only two or
nree per cent wormy or ever five
cent, it will be fairly safe to cut
early sprayings down to one and
watch for the movement of the
orms as before to see if later sprays
lould be given.
Don't leave this car with the idea
lat have said that one spraying
Ill control the cooling moth. | know
ozens of orchards that have not been
prayed more than once a year for
'ur or five years, but before that
me everyone of those orchards was
from three to five times and
as banded, in order to get the
down to a number where it
ould be safe to stop with one spray
g. Any method of spraying which
duces the number of worms in the
'chard each year below that which
'curred there the previous year is
AnV mQthnd Of cnroxinn