The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-05-02
THE CARE OF
THE ORCHARD
ey z. D. BALL, Director Utah Ex-
pertinent Station

ing and developing an orchard up to
bearing with any expectation Of making
money out of it unless you are willing
to put both time and money into it Of
ter it reaches the bearing stage, and
there is probably nothing in West
ern Agriculture that will pay you bet
ter for the time and money you spend
than this same orchard, providing you
spend enough. And at the same time
there is nothing in western agriculture
in which person can make as great
failure as they can in orchard work.
The people of the East with the great
markets of our country right at their
doors often make fair amount of mon
no care. They raise a cheap, inferior
product, but, being close to the mark
| cts with little or no freight charges
to pay, they may be able to still dis
pose of it at profit. With US of the
intermountain region, the problem is
quite different. The freight on a box
of apples from hero to Ohio is ON the
average as much as the Ohio man gets
for his apples. In order, therefore,
that we may get anything fer our prod
uct, we must put on to the Eastern
markets product that is in every way
superior to the homegrown product ard
will command a superior price. An ap-
pie grower anywhere in the state Of
Ohio has approximately 100000 peo-
pie who want his apples within a rad
ius of 100 miles. The intermountain
fruit grower has en- the other hand
less than 1000 900 people to eat his ap
pies within radius of 500 miles, and
practically all Of the world markets op-
en- to his products are from l. 900 to
1000 miles from his door and worse
than all this these miles are in every
case over the worst mountain reads,
with heavy grades and high freight
charges. A box of apples selling at
$1.00 may be sold at loss. Another
box of apples selling at $3.50 or So 90,
or, in the case Of cur fancy fruit, some
times much more, may yield handsome
returns. If it costs $1.10 to produce
a box Of apples that sell for $1.OO and
consequent loss, $1.2O may produce
box of apples that will sell fer 5000
and handsome profit Where, then,
shall we spend the extra 10 cents per
bushel
The first requirement Of market
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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 to
spray thorough rersistentA intelligent
work. We have as the result of
good many years of effort developed a
method of spraying which can be de-
pended upon to give results.
The important features of this meth
cd are, first that you have an outfit
capable of handling a considerable a.
mount of liquid at a canstant 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 difference which
one of these outfits you have With
reference to the efficiency of thespray
ing, the best spraying that has ever
been done in this state and as good
as has ever been done in any ether
state has been done with Pomona
Barrel outfit, costing $1,000, but that
outfit must have enc accessory that is
hard to purchase in the open market,
and that is man with head on him
to run it. There are certain accessor-
les besides the man that are also nee
essary in order to do good, WORKS.
feet of 7-ply hose, bamboo pole, 10
to IL feet in length crook on the
end of this pole, and on this a nozzle
That will lnrow coarse spray five or
six feet before it breaks into a mist
with this outfit and platform or
tower So that the man handling the I,z
zle can get above the trees and spray
down into the calyx cups, spray SIDE
wise into those that stand out on the
side, spray up into those that turn
-own below, taking care to see that
every single blossom ON the tree re-
ceives its share of the poison, truly
efficient spraying can be done.
Inc number of times to spray and
the poison to use are questions that
must be settled by local conditions.
Lead arsenate at present prices, five
pounds to 100 gallons, is probably as
good poison as can be used Paris
Green, one-third of a pound to bar
rel, has however, given just as coed
results, where there was net too much
rain or dampness at spraying time
The number of sprayings depends on
the number of worms the previous
year. If uncertain in regard to this
factor, spray twice, once just as soon
as the blossoms fall from the trees,
and again in ten days CT two weeks.
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