The daily sentinel., 1913-12-12


This orchard. set out in the
spring of 1906, has had the very
best OF care and contains the very
best varieties of fruit The owner
has kept very careful record of the
income every year and gives me the
following figures: In 1906, the first
year, the income in cash was S26.25
from vegetables: the next year ii was
s2O5.9S, also vegetables. In 1908
there were some returns on foreign
grapes included, as well as asparagus
and pie plant and the total was
S2S0.19; this was increased to
s447.69 in 1909 and to $669.40 in
1910, and in both years there was
good results shown with red raspber-
rles; in 1911 there was slight loss,
the figures being S612.79. In 1912
the first returns on apples, peach
es and pears were received and the
total was swelled to S1,001.10. The
past year high water mark was reach
ed and the figures were S1,S65.07,
despite the heavy losses from the
high wind and hail.
1t win be readily seen that with
the help required to carry on this
orchard there was little left any of
the six years prior to 1912 to meet
the family eXepnses which were of
course helped to the extent of Yege-
tables, chickens and small fruits, and
il Is therefore necessary for any one
who sets out an orchard to have
enough funds to meet family eXpen-
ses. This has been one of the rocks
upon which a good many men have
foundered during the past dozen
years, and accounts for the failure of
a good many growers and the down
ward tendency OF land values
throughout the entire valley. Yet
when q grower gets an orchard pro-
perly set out on good soil and hand
led with care he will have at the end
of the eight years property which
will return every year good living
and interest on an investment of
more than 81 900 per acre.
Here is an item for my Fruitvale
| friend, George LaGrange, who is
talking of pork and dairying just
now. Charles 5. Creager, of Pomo-
ma, has sold $3.50 worth of butter
from three cows and is gradually
going to increase his output. In the
! business of butter making 1T is not
every one that can succeed as in
everything else-all people can not
make saleable butter. Mrs. Creager
! is thorough in her work and her but
ter commands the highest price and
| her sales are only limited to the
amount she can make.
The resort to dairying is having
| its effect on the price of milk cows
and I have heard of some extra fine
animals bringing SIPS, while COM
mon cattle are selling at SIS to 500.
/ Those who pay these prices must be
careful to have first-class places in
which to house their animals, the
| best of feed and give them the most
careful attention or they will not
succeed in meeting the expense and
| interest on the investment. This
| line of activity must have the same
thoughtful study as that of fruit
growing II we would succeed.
In some counties in Illinois and
Iowa expert agriculturalists are be-
/ ing employed at salaries of $4,000
per year and If they are profitable
/ in that we'll settled section it is of
vastly more importance that we get
the most expert advice as to fruit
growing and irrigation, because there
are SO. many of those who are enticed
this way who have had no experience
whatever along these lines. What
am seeking to avoid in the future is
| the investments of money in irrigat-
! ed industries that Will meet with
| failure to pay interest and a living
and cause the investor to part with
his property after failing to make
good and thereafter become knock
err against the country, the industry
and irrigation. In other words we
must not allow people to come to us
without giving them the inside"
i figures on every line of activity, al
lowing no opportunity for the charge
that they have been worked"
In a good many localities the
worms have been very bad this year
and there is the usual questioning as
to the value of the spray material
used. The failure to kill the worms
is laid to the arsenic spray and many
may be tempted next year to try
something else-the popular new ma
terial at this time is the powdered
arsenic; it is said to be cheaper and
more sure death. This is almost al
ways the result of wormy crop and
| it has usually been followed by n
much wormier crop because the new
material is not as good as that al
ready used We can more nearly be
sure of the best material ii we pat
ronize our home factory-it can not
afford to put out poor goods, and it
is almost always the case that the
foreign factory allows its goods to
deterioate when it gets a foothold,
because it reduces the price in order
to get into a territory.
/; l do not believe the dirty crop this
year fwasl due to any lack of poison,
but because the apple crop was light
and hard to handle. Then we have
not by any means reached full
knowledge of how to handle the cod
ling moth: there are instances where
the most careful attention has been
given, the amount of poison made
larger. bands used and thinning done
vet one man will have wormy crop
while his neighbors will have clean
crop. 1t may be that it is due to