The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1913-06-26
MoRELAND
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Roy Lowe, our barber, went to Sal,
Lake last week on business.
Maude Lindsay returned from Salt
Lake City and reports everything
lovely.
Geo. Furniss is building an addition
to his house on Main street.
Willis Ellis lost fine colt one
night last week.
Geo. E. Carpenter, of Aberdeen, ha
been in this section for the past
week working in the interest Of the
Farmers Society Of Equity and has Sc.
cured a number of new members t.
the Moreland local.
Jess Ellis is very much improved
from long seige of sickness.
Gus Furniss, who makes weekly
trips to Pocatello with chickens, eggs
and butter, reports good sales and
plenty of money down that way.
The ice cream social at the M. E.
church Tuesday evening, June II, was
quite success, large attendance,
and all thoroughly enjoyed being pre-
sent. A nice sum was raised for
the minister's salary. We appreciate
very much the attendance of L. d. S.
friends and neighbors and assure them
they are always welcome and want
them to feel perfectly at home when
visiting the M. E. church on any and
all occasions. A chicken supper will
perhaps be served as soon as it can
be conveniently arranged.
Mrs. Mary Farnsworth will deliver
a lecture on Mexico Sunday evening
at o'clock at the Moreland hall. She
will also introduce a book she has
written at the sametime All cordially
welcomed.
I note with interest the feelings and
expressions Of one of your readers in
last weeks Optimist referring to an
article on spraying and in his opinion
the Moreland article was written by
pessimist, and will say to Mr.. Man
ager when it comes to OVERRIDING this
already overdone fruit business by
spraying so much in place of proper
ly cultivating and pruning the trees
! am pessimist all over and you can
just bet your boots / am not alone
and l am strictly of the opinion all
the orchardists will be pessimists just
as fast as they receive red ink and
hot air for their shipments. They
would be now if they could get rid
of their orchards. He further states
1t would do the writer good to take
a trip through the orchards of west
ern Idaho, Washington, Oregon and
California. Will state. l have been
through Oregon, Washington and vest
ern Idaho where spraying was done
and the worms and other apple pests
seemed to thrive exceptionally well
on the prepared dope and we believe
it was good thing to make the
worms healthy and grow fat and
strong connected with the
sprayed fruit seemed to thrive except
the orchardists. If the farmers would
give more attention to pruning and
keeping the ground clean and free
from all weeds and grasses and leave
the spraying dope alone, as they do
in the Hood River valley, Oregon,
the ground perfectly during
the growing season, they would not
need to fatten worms and other in
sect pests on spray dope. Bingham
is all right-the best place in
the west-and reasonable amount
of fruit is all right, but the orchard
business is Overdone all over the
country, and there is no use trying to
deceive the people in this matter.
believe that three-fourths of the orch
artists of Idaho are pessimists along
this line and the other fourth is COM
ing down the pessimist pike at a won
derful rapidity. The farmers are also
getting wise to middle pest houses
and one of these days thousands of
fruit trees will be cut for fire wood
and something more profitable and
less expensive will be grown where
the almost worthless fruit trees now
stand. This, to my knowledge, is
exactly what they are doing in west
ern Idaho. Now, Mr.. Orchardist, you
can't give your worms better tonic
and all around flesh builder and gem
oral toner of the system than spray
iope. Feed them plenty and watch
hem thrive for the fall market. Get
hem on the early market. If you
don't get as much for them as your
apples, bring your suit case via More
and and we will go to Arco on a
fishing trip. /
IDAHO STATE CHAUTAUQuA