The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-08-14
'ORCHARD|STS
MEET.EXPERT
Fruit Inspector Powell of Lower
County Inaugurates an Ex-
cellent Movement
GATHERS GROWERS
TOGETHER TO SEE LATEST
w. P. Sawyer at Parker Is First
Host at Series of Meetings to
Be Held in Various Parts of the
County

be Held IN various faftS OF the
County
Fruit Inspector Luke Powell says
his district covering Sunnyside and
Grandview, should have two men.
However, the orchardists regard his
services the best yet recorded. Aside
from studying trees and bugs. Powell
has an eye for men. His proposition
to visit w. P. Sawyer's 20 acre or
chard in Parker Bottom and see a
big concern in action was responded
to by nearly 100 of the widest awake
fruit growers. They came from
Prosser to Selah to spend the day. 1t
was a picnic for some, but as a ma
jority took nothing to eat, Hotel
Planters, Sunnyside. was called on TO
forward lunches. which arrived to do
good service. tui
Shaping the Trees
The forenoon was spent following
Mr.. Sawyer the busy man who re-
ceives to his orchard every one with a
smile and always has time to show
one student or a hundred how his
phenomenal success has been secured
While this Bartlett pear. king at
tributes some of his success to envir-
onment, he says the pear will grow
anywhere and possibly stand more
abuse and respond more to correct at
tention than any other fruit. He
showed his, keen Ppnehga number of
whom weff H9risiI as they followed
him throqshIj4is IbhAyl jcaips ted AL
falfa orchards as well as along shoe
deep dusty lanek, that thtrt Is lot
lin 9shkrhng thEII tee Till Showed
rieighSofing tfdds that we're mot prop
erly trained and the marked contrast
in the trees ability in consequence
to- PERFORM Esd, !rs,fs,T colt Il
rcfs AlfalfR Between Trees 4 .Asf
Some of rthisl orchard is 9 years
old. This has had alfalfa growing
between trees for IS years and with
no cultivation for, three years. The
trees have full crop of the finest
Bartletts ever grown and this seasons
wood growth is Is to 80 inches. Mr.
Sawyer can we'll challenge the world
for a commercial pear orchards per-
Torrance. He expects ID to 16 car
loads from his IL acres of .Bartletts
and in his packing house, located on
the steam railroad passing through
his orchard, he demonstra ted how
the maximum in pack can be attained.
One concern in Minneapolis and New
York has handled Mr.. Sawyer's crop
for the past II years and have made
a. NJ,
service that has been entirely salts
factory to the shipper. ~ .i4t
| Some Short Addresses y 5bSI
I After lunch Mr.. Morris, Of Grand
llview, was NADER POSTMASTER and In
specterz Powell WAS asked tor tell how
| it all came about He emphasized
the Importance of fruit growers Wis.,
iting each other, attending .lectures,
institutes and shows and to- spend
much time reading and thinking. He
| announced that similar excursion
| win be run to North Yakima orcfI
ards during the season.
| DR.. Cornue, of Selah, was asked to
speak on cover crop. He said alfalfa
is the thing. That when his trees
We're two years old he feared his ad-
|
But at that time he visited Mr.. Saw
year, who showed him the error was
in the man, not the crop. That he
now has demonstrated to his own sat
isfaction that he can grow trees
among alfalfa an; he challenges any
body to beat his effort.
| Pedigrecd Trees
H. NJ Lichty was called on to
speak on "Pedigreed Trees" He said
that the system of going to the best
individuals for buds and scions was
WY generally believed in by grow
ers, and that this has been neglected
| but is happily advocated now by this
the most educated, keencst class OF
food producers.
This speaker said that his business
called him to visit the most up 20
! date orchardists from British Column
bia to Hood River in spotting trees
worthy of reproduction. He gave IA
vorable testimony of men who were
growing alfalfa in the orchard. He
very generally used and eventually
will be the only cover crop
Sawyer Answers Questions
w. p. Sawyer was obliged to re-
spond to an encore. He was assaileo
from every viewpoint and kept the
mat for full half hour. He simpl,
answered questions. Something like
this: mo it was not easy from the
start For nine years a struggle. Ny
kin came from the east to call me off
go back to hardware business wher,
we had succeeded"
mo, [ don't like clover; will pillow
under my fine crop soon and put il
alfalfa
II regard a perfect grade and pacl
; the one thing paramount after pro
ducing the fruit"
Il believe in the fruit unions. ba
, they must get into better system
Every local must have a man VIII
, Will score and grade the pack an,