The daily sentinel., 1914-04-09

The Latimer Chemical Company
has disposed OF 500 barrels OF the
lfme-sulphur spray already this
spring. and the end is not yet. while
a number of the growers have made
their own material. II may be that
the statements made by Judge Rowe
that 80 per cent of the damage sup
posed to be due to frost was actually
due to the fungus or scab, and that
thorough use of this dormant
spray would remedy the trouble, has
had the effect of increasing the de-
mand. as there we're less than three
hundred barrels ordered early.
Be this as It may, If there Is any
thing in the use of this spray as
preventative of the spring losses We
shall have large number OF the
best growers on the safe side. and
the use of this material is good
thing in any event. On First Fruit
Ridge every grower but one has
given his entire orchard a careful
application of this nasty mess; some
have used the oil preparation, and IL
il is successful many Will use II IN
the future. This thorough spraying
ought to be the death OF the San Jose
scale.
| have mentioned once or twice
the matter of farm credits and the
bill providing for such move Is un,
der consideration in congress, ana
with fair show of approval In some
shape, but l.. d. Sweet in speaking
on the subject when here remarked
that In case such law was enacted
it will no doubt require the borrower
/ III, xuhsch mt now
very common One Will be that eN-
ery borrower must have a diversified
crop, and in every case patch OF
hay, some cattle. hogs, horses, and
that not particle of roughage pc
sold from the place. but used as
fertilizer. 1t will be required that
steps be taken to assure the repay
ment of the loan.
There is little new as regards the
peach crop this week; the reports
are meagre, and nothing comes from
New York, where early reports gave
out an entire loss. There is surely
a very light crop in Michigan and
the middle states, and conflicting re-
ports from Texas, but enough Is
known to show that the Elberfa
crop will be lighter than usual but
we shall no doubt have large peach
crop in many sections. The pros
meet is good for fair price for the
Grand Valley article.
This week the peach trees will be-
gin to bloom in this valley begin
ming at Palisade and gradually open
ing all down the valley, and. by the
I 18th everything will be out. The
danger will practically be over by
the 95th. though we have had frosts
later some years. The general feei-
ing Is that the low lying SHOWS on
Grand Mesa refrigerates the valley
and prevents exceedingly low tenn
peratures. No extreme cold waves
are predicted for the month. except
n freezing temperature in Wyoming,
Nebraska and some other near lying
sections about the 18TH.
There is very little talk of smudge
pots aside from the Palisade peach
belt; a few growers on the Ridges
are talking about using few pots
in some blocks of peaches and pears
where conditions warrant 1t, and
where the trees are in solid blocks,
but there will be no general resort
TO the smudge pots. which has been
the custom in some years. ! notice
that there were some growers In the
Weenatchie valley who smudged a
week ago, and they report being able
to keep the temperature up to
safe point when it was l 3 outside
the heated area. But they also re-
port that the only damage done was
to peaches. The conclusion is obvl-
Gus that the apples we're not very far
along. The same report was made
from New Mexico.
Readers we'll along in years and
especially the old boys, will be very
highly interested II they will read
Sam G. Blythe's Who's Who and
Why" in the last Saturday Evening
Post. In featuring the minister to
Germany he brings in an intensely
graphic sketch of the old-time swim
ming holes common in the middle
and eastern states thirty years age
and for which almost every boy ol
any grit at all had real and per
sonal attachment.
Which one of us has not hiked a.
top speed for that same hole Will
his duds under his arm anxious to b'
the first to dive from the bank? Ano
which one has not vivid remem
brance of the knots tied in the green
les clothes? 1t was memorable
butternut or walnut tree, instead o
the shag-bark hickory which hal
never faded from our memory anC
the recollections which will surel.
spring up in the breast of many Sen
tinel readers will tend to make III
charitable towards the foibles of-th'
boys of today who know nothing o
the old time swimming holes o
days gone by.
The witnessing of the high schoo