| Show MISTAKES OF AN ORCIIARDIST Practical H nts from an bpcrienced Fruit Raiser Monb Oranl Co June 1 1S9S To the riltor In looking oCr my orchard I we thinking i If the mistakes I have made and If they were made public It would save others from repeating them I am willing for places shore trees grow thrifty an they do here In Moab In the Mist place I set mI tree too close 1 together Thy are 32 feet apart and should have been 40 Another mistake mis-take I bet tie trees In line each way but they should hate been let the second sec-ond row 220 feqt from liberal the first ren ien role commenced me trees uIll not be all polite each other The next mlntake I set out a lot of poplars If I should i go on another new Place I would not ret out a Poplar I tree Set out walnuts or some durable tree The ext mistake I set out a Mncyard All the grapes n person needs Is I what le needs for his family lid what he fun market Another An-other mistake Is I having so much to di I nm not al le 10 do work whon It Should bo done A great deal of labor can le saved ly going through the orchird In time and lulling off the sprouts tint have started where they are not needed 1 Another mistake M lowing trees to bear 16 much fruit at a time I find l by close observation that It labs more 10 produce the need of the fruit 1 have taken off as much as two tl Irds of the fruit and then would hO No early as much If not quite as much and a great deal nicer Now If > ou let I an ante tree overbear It will lave off years that Is I there will be years when It will not bear nny fruit but If n tree Is I properly thinned the tree will bear Hull every year If weatl er Is favorable If you will tale ft good glass and loolc at a fully develop de-velop d apple you will BOO that Hire ire globes with a thin skin around each i particular one Thero Is I the same number In a mall undeveloped apple that there Is I In a large one anj the same amount of pulp In the small ni pie aa In the large one There is the Kline difference lietvvccn 1 tho fruits ne there Is I between poor moat and fat meal I will tell of another grand mistake Going Into debt If I had the It teres I have mid < I would be no well off that I would not have to work any more 11 Is not thee interest alone tint does < the inltcl it nit mail wlo Is In debt IA I n-it his own mten lie 15a nlavc for th rs He Is I not 10 10 0 and coma com-a ho Ideation rrrult crop bore tire as follows AI Was 75 cents pr cI lOIIh III I rIume 80 cefI small fruits fI Svals I As Orand Junction Col hot lot its Iach crop we will be table 10 market our title year Last year cur Peach crop did not pay anything eome shlLinenti did not ling I enough U pas for tie boxes I shipped a car 10 Chlcno I got 1075 returns not enough to pay for the hauling of or one wagon load 10 the railroad O W WAIlIIt |
