The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-12-15

In the MIDST OF the SNOWY Visit
10 u Fruit Plantation That Has Il
VvV;vVO f,aants,, Tens of Thousands
Of Apple Trees and 45.OOO P.a"I.
Trees in Bearing-It Has 1<vei,n
Miles OF Railroads m 1t Packs and
cans by Electricity-How tho
fruitS VIII Come to New York-A
Ialk fWth the Fruit King of Chile
Or the Luther Burbank of South
MISUNDERSTANDING About His Dis.
roNcI1es and Creations Of New
Copyrighted, 1914, by Prank g gov
Denter.)
Santiago, Chile.
How would you like to have luscious
peaches at Christmas, ripe pluns
pears and cherries in theh cart Of
midWlnter, and great white muskmel-
ons when the ground is covered with
snow! This is what you may expect
from Chile now that the Panama
Canal is completed and the war de.
mand for American goods is turning
our shipping hat way. The vessels
carrying our wares to Pacific South
America will furnish cheap return
freights, and the prospect is that in
the near future many of them will
come loaded with fruit. The seasons
on this side of the equator are the
opposite of ours. The fruit begins
IL ripen here late in our fall, and the
Chileans have plums, peaches and
pears ready for the market iii the
midst of u winter.
From now on Valparaiso will be
With two weeks U&DNew York. and
The canal has placed a South Amer
Ican California, with it's summer pro-
ducts. almost at our doors. The pros
pect of a great expectation of Chilean
fruits to the United States is agitating
the farmers. The government is in
veStigating the subject, and schools for
teaching fruit growing and the pack
ing n expectation of fruits are be-
ing established. Chile has long been
the chief fruit-growinS country Of the
lower half of our hemisphere. 1t al
ready has orchards of hundreds Of
acres and it's vineyards are yielding
about so, 200, 900 gallons of wine every
year. There is no land upon earth that
has better fruit possibilities and it's
products are now to be dropped upon
Uncle Sans tables.
In order to give you some idea or
what this great industry may do for
the United States, / have spent a day
with Don Salvador Izquierdo S. in go
ing over his fruit and nursery planta-
tons, situated near the town of Nos
and about twelve miles from Santiago.
Don Salvador is the fruit king or
Chile, and / might almost call him
the Luther Burbank of u sister con-
tinent. He has an increased hacienda
of about 1,400 acres, covered with gar
dens and orchards, and plantations
for the raising of flowers, plants and
trees Of almost every variety. he has
now more than 1900. 900 individual
plants in the estate and he ships
plants by the tens of thousands to all
parts OF Chile, and also across the
Andes to Argentina, Uruguay ana
Brazil. He is not only a grower OF
nursery stock, but is likewise a sclen-
iific breeder of new varieties. Alto
rSether he has into Ch1le
more than 4,800 new varieties OF
fruits and plants, and ne has hlmseif
originated by cross breeding hundreds
Of valuable trees and flowers. Some
Of his experiments have Deen alors
The line Of creating trees not supJect
TO certain blights and pests. lie mas
already created fourteen new varieties
OF apples not affected by n lnSec.
known as the s~chizonera lanlfera, tnat
is now DESTROYING our apples of many
parts Of the world. The new varieties
are grated onto the stalks or ordln-
airy trees. The insect crawiS up the
stalk, but it stops where the graIts
begin, and the trees and their frult
are found to be safe.
Among the other experiments OF
Senior IzQuierdo S. is the
the roots of the eucalyptus and other
trees so that they can be grown upon
che dry lands of the ops OF the noun
tains. This is done by 1heni
in pots, where the young trees are
fed with nitrate of soda and treated
in such a way that their roofs are
about four times the usual size. be
inc nl.ptoI .fhncn long roots 60 lhT
down into n soil and tap the under
ground layers of water, and are thei-
fore able to resist the drouth. Ii Wa
IN recognition of this ~lscovet -
the Roval Agricultural Society OF
London has just unanimously eiecteu
Don Salvador Izauierdo S. q me1ipef
OF that body.
Eut cannot give you a better loea
OF the possibilities of fruit raising III
Chile than by taking you with Doi'
Salvador over his great Irule ee.A
Wa ct,~< 81 tho utafinn III SdItl6lSO