The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1922-05-11
Max Mn.

The three days attack OF JacR
Frost upon the orchards of Emmett
was repelled today by balmy spring
zephyrs and warm sunshine and the
tension upon the nerves of fruit grow
ers and business men, which has tried
their very souls, has been relieved.
The cold wave rolled IN Monday
and during the night the mercury
ranged from rs on the bench and some
portions of the Slope to 81. Those
who has heaters and smudge pots,
were on guard all night and as soon
as the temperature reached the dan
ger point the fires were started and
orchards looked rs if thousand me-
teors had fallen and were blazing.
Those who had no heaters lighted
piles of refuse and coarse manure.J.
r. Field used 1850 gallons of crude
oil during the night. Next to him
Walter SBone had his heaters going
full blast in his prune orchard. Lower
down on the Slope w. B. Lyman,
Paul Kefauver and n. B. Matthiessen
of Model Fruit Farm warded off the
cold blasts in the same manner. But
conditions of the atmosphere were
ideal and those who were compelled
to let Nature take her course FORUM
ately escaped loss, though the strain
upon their nerves was terrific, for to
many upon the outcome hung pros
perity or ruin. Today, with the crisis
past they are wondering how they
escaped, but juhilant over their good
fortune.
A conservative summary of the
situation is this: Along the slopes
very little damage has been done I
Sweet cherries, peaches, apricots, !
pears, prunes and other fruits have
escaped practically unscathed On the
bench the damage has been spotted,
as usual I'm the eastern hAd there
will be . full crop of apples and al
most full crop of prnnes. w. n. Sis
let's peach oachard in the canyem was
not harmed, and most of the peaches
and other tender fruits mostly fam
lily orchards suffered very little. In |,
the western half more or less damage
was done, but It is belieNed that there
will he nearly m avera0e crop Of Ap-
Piles md about half crop of prunes.
The w. H. &sler, Prettyman and
apple orchards we're among
the WORST sufferers. Still Mr.. SisleE
estimates his crop at 80 per cent. Mr..
Aston saTs if so yer cent more buds
in the Gaebler orchard were killed the ]
urees woukd have ~ they opght to
carry. Ths prunes u the Gaelbler or
cEArd were about 50 per cent killed.
Chris Hansen, manage of the Pretty
maa orchard, estimated from 30 to q
IS per cent of a crop.
Enil Dean, manager of the EN- q
nett Orchards Co.,. sayB their or '
.hardD suffered only q snail loss. He :
-eportD that Rone Beauties were 6he q
principal sufferers; that the Joaa- {
hans we're scarcely touched. b
Delicissls apples were Nhe most
Affected, being alnost .
otal loss on TIE bench. 4 6-acre I,
,loek Of this variety in the Gaebler :
rat AaS scarcely . sound bloenn laft. Z
'lAAD onst = town, reports . full T
ta1d ef pruDes. Farther south half 3
niiie, the DuYharn pruhe orchard has =
daneely live bloom left.
At Nontour. = e. Noland reports
o damage.
II WAS . hair breadth escape; in "
sct, k seems g e the good Lord was -
nth -. Today tie sun shines bright h
r, the birds are singing and hearts b,
r light and happy. A week from ez
ow wen have forgotten there ever pl
a. such thing rs frost laden winds ez
nd ice and such.