The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1912-01-19
THE CARE OF THE ORCHARD
BY e. D. Ball, director Utah expert
ment station.

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ment station.
There is no use planting, cuftivat
ing and developing an orchard up tt
bearing with any expectation of max
ing money out of it unless you arr
willing to put both time and money
into it after it reaches the bearing
stage, and there is probably nothing
in western agriculture that will pay
you better for the time and none,
you spend than this same orchard
provided you spend enough. And a.
the same time there Is nothing il
western agriculture in which a per
son can make as great a failure as
they can in orchard work. The PEG.
pie of the east with the great mar.
kets of u country right at theil
doors often make a fair amount 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 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
10000 600 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 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 $1.10 to produce a box of ap-
Piles 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 1t 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
spray-thorough, persistent, in
telligent 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 barrel pumps-double
acting pumps, and power outfits will
all do this, and 1t makes no differ
ence which one of these outfits you
have. With reference to the effic-
lency 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
4 Pomona Barrel outfit, costing $22
but that o. tfit must have one access
sorry that is hard to purchase in the
open market, and that is a man with
head on him to run it. There are