Show the care of the orchard E D by BALL director origin arho f zie liy y berrio demonstration jera irlon train mcgurf station on I 1 there is no use planting cultivating and developing an orchard up to bearing with any expectation tation of making money out of it unless you are willing to put both time and money into it after it reaches the bearing stage and there Is probably nothing in western agriculture that will pay you better tor for the time and money you spend than this same orchard provided you spend enough and at the same time there Is nothing in western agriculture la in which a person can make its as great a failure as they can in orchard work tho the people of the east with the great markets of our country right at their doors often make a fair amount of money on orchards barda that receive little or no care they raise a cheap inferior product but being close to the markets with little or no freight charge to pay they may be able to still dispose of it at a prout profit with us of the intermountain region the problem Is quite different the freight on a box of apples from here to ohio Is on the average as aa much as the ohio man gets tor for his apples in order therefore that we may get anything for our product we must put on to the markets a product that Is in evory every way superior to the home grown product and will command a superior price an apple grower anywhere in the state of ohio has approximately people who rant his bis apples within a radius of miles the intermountain fruit grower has on the other hand band less jess than people to eat his apples within a radius of miles and practically all of the world markets open to his products are from 1000 to 2000 miles from his door and worse than all ali 1 aase miles am in every case epe ove over r the wort of fountain bounta fri rods with pith heavy grades and high freig freight at charges A box ot of uple apples seeing at may be sold bold at a fois loss au another brif bax ot a apples ap pp aei a selling at or 2 00 or in ih the case of f our fancy fruit sometimes much more may yield handsome returns it if it costs to produce a box of apples that sell for and a consequent loss 1 20 may produce a box of apples that will sell tor for 2 00 and a handsome profit where then shall w we e spend the extra 10 cents per bushel the first requirement of a marketable apple Is that it bo free from worms two and a halt half to three cents therefore must go to spraying that box of apples and when we say spray in the western country we mean spray thorough persistent intelligent tell igent work we have as aa the result of 0 a good many years ot of effort developed loped a method of spraying which can be depended upon to give results the important features ot of this method are first that you have an outfit capable ot of handling a considerable amount of liquid at a constant pressure ot of to pounds the largest size of barrel pumps double acting pumps and power outfits will do all this and it makes no difference which one of 0 these outfits you have with reference to the efficiency ot of spraying the best spraying that has over ever been done in this state and as good as has ever been done in any other state has been done with a pomona barrel outfit costing 2200 22 00 but that outfit must have one accessory that is hard bard to purchase in the open market and that is a man with a head on him to run it there are certain accessories besides the man that box ot of apples and when we say so do good wark 25 feet of 7 ply bose hosen a bamboo pole 10 to 12 feet in length P crook on the end of this pole and on this a nozzle that will throw a coarse spray five or six feet before it breaks into a mist with this outfit and a platform or tower so 60 that the man handling the nozzle can get above the trees and spray down into the calyx cups spray sidewise into those that stand out on the side spray up into those that turn down below taking care to see that emery every single blossom on the tree receives lives its share of the poison truly eff efficient lelent can be done the number of times to spray and the poison to use usa are questions that must be settled by local conditions lead arsenate at present prices five pounds pound to gallons Is probably as good a poison as can be used paris green one third of a pound to a barrel has however given just as rood good results chero there was not too much rain or dampness at spraying time the number of sprayings spray ings depends on the number of worms the previous year it uncertain in regard to this factor spray twice once just Ls is soon as aa the blossoms tall fall from the trees and again in ten days or two weeks band every treo tree with there appears more than two or three there acears more than two or three per cent of cf worms in the first brood then spray again two or three time 1 for the second brood I 1 it f tho the orchard closes the season with only two or three per cent wormy or oven even five per it will be fairly sate safe to cut the early sprayings spray ings down to one and then watch tor for the movement of the worms as before to see it if later sprays should be given dont leavo leave this car with the idea that I 1 hayo have said that one spraying will control the codling bodling moth I 1 know dozens of orchards that have bave not been sprayed more than once a year for four or five years but b before e that time every one of those or chadds was sprayed from throe three to alva times and was bonded banded in order orar to get tho the worms down to a numbers number where it would bo be sate safe to stop with ono one spraying any method of spraying which reduces tho the number ot 01 worms in the orchard each year below that which occurred thero there tho the previous year Is successful any method of spraying which allows the worms to increase e in au an orchard or which only holds anem stationary when they are destroying from 10 to 20 per cent of the apples Is a as far as w western stern conditions are cn an corned because that 10 to 20 per cent that Is destroyed will be the largest finest and most highly colored fruit OU on tho the tree while the little interior inferior uncolored nubbins bubbins that grow down underneath will be the ones that will bo be fre freo from worms in a good many sections in this state considerable trouble was expert encao this past season with tho the worms and many an that felt that he had solved the problem with spraying before this season Is alarmed at the number of worms in his crop this year and to Is loo looking kling around for a reson re son tor for the increase most lost of them however are looking in the wrong direction I 1 for the cause some think the pump was no good others are tuie sure the poison ax was as ad no good but I 1 have discovered no ono one as aa yet that has even suggested that the man was deteriorating and yet the tact fact remains that a very largo large percentage of our growers have become over overconfident confident in the past two br or three years I 1 the moth runs in cycles of 0 destructiveness as do all other insects some years it 11 will be a good deal worse than others eight eighnor or nine years ago the ahe average of tho the orchards of the state was two to three worms to an apple two or three years ago as aa the result of 0 a co of almost universal edral ing ine ani and certain unfavorable cli climatic matio conditions that number was reduced t ta the minimum at the same time the number of sprayings spray ings was also reduced the bands were left off tho the codling moth began to increase in numbers and an exceptionally favorable season for their multiplication resulted in a heavy damage last year and yet last year there were dozens of orchards in the state of utah that went through the season with a single spraying and one would have to search some time for a wormy apple in the orchards I 1 think however that this lesson will hayd have a good effect in the end better put ork on an extra ettra spray and work on the bands when they do not appear to be doing much good than to repeat the experience enco of the past season there Is no profit in wormy apples and there Is no satisfaction in them eaber to be continued |