Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-10-02
Skillet Creek Fruit Farm Is
Much Improved By /. B. Irish
Orchard Started 40 Years Ago

/ The "Fameuse" (snow applet, Tai
man Sweet, Delicious" and "Getn
City" are good keeping winter APP
pies which find a ready market. 10
favorable, seasons, as much as $50
bushels of apples per acre are oh
tanned from full bearing trees,
Orchards Need Good Care And
Management
From all observations the skill
let Creek" orchards receives the
best of care. Some little intel
cropping of potatoes and corn ~
practiced where the trees have not
reached their producing age. ~
the bearing orchard, sweet clover
is grown and plowed under. In
addition barnyard manure is aP'
piled; about two thirds Of tbs
orchard being fortified in this way
this past season. An intensive
spraying program is carried out be-
ginning in the early spring ans
lasting until the middle Of August.
The lime sulphur mixture is used
for all spraying and is reinforcea
with arsenate OF lead for the third
treatment The first treatneEt
is given at the pre- pink stage, l.
e., before the flower buds commences
to open. This spray is given only
to those trees most susceptible 10
scab The second spraying is Civ
en- when the buds are opening, the
pink bud" spray. A little later
when the petals commence to fall,
the third treatment is given. II ~
at this time that the arsenatea of
lead is added to the lime sulphur
mixture for the purpose of destroy
ing the coddling moth. Two weeks
later, a fourth lime sulphur treat
ment is given. About the middle
of August, the trees are sprayed
the fifth time for the second brood
Of coddling moths.
Marketing of Apples Is Bic
Problem ~
Marketing Of the apples is pre-
badly one of the biggest problems
that Sank County apple growers
have to confront. At the present
time there is not enough OF the
fruit grown to warrant local
marketing organization. At the
same time, shipment Of small
quantities Of apples to the large
marketing centers does not seem
to have paid in past years. Tbs
"Skillet Creek Farm, ordinarily
sells most Of it's apples at the road.
side direct from the orchard TO. the
consumer Some of the fruit Is
used for making cider. This, too,
sells at the roadside booth. Sea-
sons when the apple crop is heaty,
some Of the apples are hauled By
truck to nearby towns and sold di-
rectly to retailers and consumers.
This means that locally produced
fruit is marketed locally and pUf-
chased by the local consumers,
thus eliminating the round about
marketing system that involves
commissions on sales and trans
portation charges. In other words
it is putting into practice the idea
of "home consumption Of hone
grown products"
Sank County Farm Orchards Nees
Better Care
Throughout Sank County tbs
Soil Survey has found scores Of
small orchards that might be Ere
ducing additional income if gives
some considerable attention. A
gross income of $3.50 per acrs is
realized on some the best managed
farm orchards. We have all heaFs
during the past two or three years
that Wisconsin farmers have been
saved from the heavy financial De-
preston experienced by the KaB-
sas wheat farmers, because OF tAs
diversified farming which they pBae
tice. The idle, Improbable g.
chard should be brought into las
with the other profit producing
products of the farm, if diverstHea
farming is to be the best payiRs
method to follow.