The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1919-02-20
Better Times
for Horticulture

I}I- Z. oduuSlcn VI rott Soiiiho,
who conducted fruit growers school
here last week. expresses the opinion
that the outlook for American horticul-
euIe is better now that it has been at
any period for many years. "The
pendulum" he says, has swung to the
extreme and is now coming back,
bringing with it more prosperous times
tn the orchardists of the country"
The horticultural industry, accord
ing to DR.. Sandsten, is in better condi-
eion now than it ever was before, and
viii be less affected in the future by
Those vicissitudes that have been such
a heavy drag upon it in the past. In
'cDz,1mon with all other callings. he
Says, it will have its ups and downs"
6ut influences are at work, he asserts,
thzf will stabilize it in way that has
moi been possible heretofore. With
better varieties of fruit, with a more
careful cultivation of soil and trees
and with a growing market for his
crop, with its consequent upward ten
dency in prices. DIR. Sandsten predicts
that the orchardist has reached the
turn in the road and is coming into
his own.
Dr. Sandsten stated during his visit
IN Canon City last week that 5.000.O00
fruit trees west of the Mississippi
Eiyer had been cut down by growers
this winter. This was not. he declared,
n had Indication nor did it show a dis
zzrisfaction with fruit growing as a
nmsiness. 1t simply means, he asserted,
that orchardists have decided to get
xa OF all dead and unproductive trees.
I'm no section of the West said DIR.
S2ndsten. are any large orchard areas
king destroyed. On the contrary
new areas are being brought under
SHhivation ard old ones being con-
served and improved. Fruit trees
that prematurely languish and die
without disease or other special causes
1how that the soil in which they were
WANTED was ill-advised and uncongen-
5af to their growth. To get rid of
ahem and use the soil for other crops
In The part of wisdom. This is what
tlse Western orchardist is now doing,
zccprding to DR.. Sandsten.
These dead and unproductive fruit
trees are being removed from the or
ehnrtis of Kansas. Colorado and the
STATES. of the Pacific Northwest. but
n1where more scrupulously than in
the horticultural districts of Wash
mgton. especially in the Hood river
cDsntry. DIR. Sandsten and County
ASriculturist r. r. Jeffries estimated
mat fully 5000 fruit trees, most of
them apples. would be cut down in
Fremont county this spring. More
than that many new fruit trees will be
set out to take their places.
DR. Ssndsten expressed the convic
ffDn that fruit prices would be equally
za high this year as they were last.
lin fact, he predicted that they would
eIntinue satisfactory to the grower for
n long time to come. All authorities
agree that the outlook for good fruit
crop in the Canon City district next
SEASON is very encouraging at the
present time. II there are no unex-
pe1tedly late frosts and the ravages of
THE ieafroiler can be controlled. there
uIll be bumper fruit yield in Ere
monf county next summer and fall.
With the very thorough spraying the
erees are expected to get under the
regulations adopted at the time of the
organization of the pest district here.
sthere ought to be no difficulty in max,
ing successful fight on the leaf
roIier in the Canon City territory. Il