The Springdale news., 1918-07-12
SUM MER MEETING
OF ORCHARD MEN
Continued from LIST Page


about the w. S. S. drive and urged
everyone to be at their respective,
places Friday at p. M, and do their
part in putting Washington county
over the top.
Wilson Cardwell, on behalf of the
mayor, gave the address of welcome.
Mr. Batter, of Rogers, secretary of
the society, responded. He urged the
need of associations
A. G. Broyles, of Bentonville, presi-
dent of the society, said there would
be a meeting at Bentonville on De-
cember 16. The membership fee is 81,
AMI contributing membership fee S..
.'This is to enable US to make full
reports of these meetings and | hope
we will have funds enough to do this
he said. I'VE will have another of
these summer meetings later in the
season, probably about September IL
The superintendent of refrigerator
transportation of the Frisco said that
It was too early to make any definite
statement as to transportation but it
is hoped it will be better than last
year.
The remaining part of the day was
given to visiting orchards. The first
stop was at E. J. Eicher's farm which
his brother, D. E. Eicher, is in charge
of. Mr.. Eicher has been using the
dust spray He said he started in with
fear and trembling and is not through
trembling yet. 'The seriousness of
the labor problem and the need of time
to grow more grain products caused
me to invest in a dust sprayer. l have
Delicious and Olive Red, both sus-
ceptible to scab. There is more scab
here than in Mr. Borgdon's where
wet spray was used, but | have, with
the aid of two men, taken care OF
12O acre orchard and grown more
grain, too. l have a better quality of
| divers than | had last year when |
uScu Juc Wei Nei SV 49,
the 20 acres in three to four hours
Geo. Reeder, of Rogers, in giving his
experience with the dust, said: Il used
the liquid spray four years and it took
two teams working six days to go
over my orchard. Two years ago |
bought buster. | sprayed one-half
my orchard with liquid and the other
half with dust. | made four applica-
! tions and | couldn't see much differ
ence but when | came to load the APP
pies the busted block seemed the best.
was offered Zoe per cwt. more for
those than those off the block where
| used the wet spray.
with the dust have part of my
force of men l can use at something
else. 1t takes about 300 pounds to
&c over my so acres of bearing trees
and taking into consideration the time
and labor saved it is cheaper than the
liquid. The dust must be fine. 1t
doesn't remain on the trees as well as
the liquid. You must disregard spray
schedules Put it on whenever the
weather is conducive to fungus dis
eases. l used 70 pounds of sulphur,
~ pounds of lime and ten pounds of
arsenate of lead but recommend IS
per cent sulphur and Is of lead.
think the lime is of no effect on scab.
have some scab and worms, but
about as clean as most orchards"
The last stop was at l. r. Roth
rocks orchard. He had an overdose
Of codling moth due largely to the
pi oximity of an old apple evaporator.
He has his trees banded and wire
screen over these bands. This allows
the worms to enter and pupate under
the bands, but when the moth matches
II cannot escape and soon dies. This
method has been tried out in Oregon