Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1912-02-15

inc iiull lne immense amount
OF lollage took up so much of the
water that it was impossible to de
Veiop the fruit to the proper size.
me happy medium, therefore, is
suiflcient amount of water to deyelop
normal size tree-not an excess
that develops water sprouts and sappy
wood, a rather light application of
water in the earlier part of the season
so as not to stimulate too much wood
growth, but an abundance at the time
when the fruit is ripening and the
fruit buds are developing.
| saw an orchard this year in which
everything that | have described to
you SO far had been done and appar.
emily well done-the orchard was
bearing from nine to twelve hundred
bushels of apples per acre and yet
the crop was practically worthless
There is, therefore, one more factor
to be considered and that is thin
ming. This orchard was a Gano, Jon.
athan, Ben Davis orchard of about fiji
teen years old. and each tree had |
three to five thousand little bits of |
understood. shrunken apples. The |
apples were of little value and the |
trees were breaking down and being |
ruined. If half or two-thirds OF those |
apples had been thinned out in the
beginning OF the season, the remain
der would have produced crop as
heavy as the trees could bear of bet,
ter developed and standard size apples.
There would have been enough vitality
in the tree to develop fruit buds for
another year and everybody would
have been happy. AS 1t is, the or
: chardist got an immense crop of un.
salable fruit and next year his or.
p chard will not bear at all, since it is
q impossible for a tree to feed fruit
n buds under such an excessive load.
& Two or three cents expended in thin
S ming would have made so cents differ
g ence in the worth OF these apples in
5. the fall.
D. And by the way. while | think of
h it, let me suggest to you that you be-
Il gin thinning as soon as young trees
IS first begin to bear. The first year or so
e that young orchard begins bearing
Ii the crop is not worth the expense OF
g spraying and handling. the trees need
e. all of their energy to develop frame
n work for carrying the loads of the fu
"a ture years and in every way it is bet
ri ter TO pull off the few apples that ap
at pear here and there; and yet to the
on man that is developing the young or
an chard ii is too much like pulling
'ts tooth to pull off one of these apples
Iel For this reason it is good discipline
as II you begin at that time and learT
n. to pull apples off in order to MAKE
en- greater profits in the future. 1t vii
ng not be hard TO keep it up and proper
ly thin your fruit when the orchar'
I'm reaches tho bearing age.
'od And even after all this is done. tn
nut problem of fruit growing has not We
I'M been solved. With fine crop c
rue standard sized, sound fruit on hi
er- treeg the orchardst faces the prof.
will len OF picking. packing and marke
the ing. and right here there have pee
and moro failures in the past than IN an
itn' other part of the work. except pc
asy sibly spraying know two neighbol
or with orchards side by side where or
the of them received 2is cents per busn
OF for his apples more than they COS
has while the other man received 60, al
vest rirht at this point, let me tell 20
with comes the parting of The ways. II
wise one business TO handle ground. to CT
title tiyate. to irrigate. to prune ana
or snray and il is another business
any yrade and market fruit, and IN Il
hort travels through the fruit sections
the the western part of America, ma
e is become more and more satlsieu III
I in those valleys which have been mt
alton uniformly successful in the markeu
buds nj their fruit are the ones thal ma
I be nlaced this part of the work IN
July banda of the business man. regarul'
year, NJ his knowledge of orchards anu 50
Attest one of the best fruit handlers ina
yrow. ho,.o ever come in contact with Is
,peri helnless as a baby when you get
able au,av from his warehouse ana
No TO ,ho orchard and on the other ma
I OF aOmc OF the Wul ~ i"i'"N
letting end have been made by
to be yiously successful fruit growers
hard. The western orchardist mas "
q one dorfu, opportunty; the choicest So
4 say. tho never-ending sunshine ana
drop abundance Of irrigation water are
many Nature has been lavish in her DC
, and ties Everything that goes 10 III
, half success is before him. what ne 4"
would furnish is intelligent SUPERVISION
gated. ergetic prosecutions and a iove ,,.' y,
worry caI,irr. tempered by conser'"
y had BUSINESS sense. These are the e e,
:, co ,,als Of success in any line nut /,
~ IT.. ~ line OF human endeayor VIII
ne IT. live live greater return in liberty,
uld be S Scri,y and security than in ives
rrigat' orchard management
.pS ox. borrowed trouble cannot De
nj the back