Show ORCHARD President Moroni of the State Board of Horticulture was in and called at this In conversing about his recent trip to Denver and the Grand stated that the apple display at Denver was something enormous as well as Over the exhibit of the Grand Valley hung a huge which told of the resources of the valley and gave some statistics relative to the apple crop of last There were cars of apples alone shipped out of the Grand which netted the growers something like Delta just below the Grand shipped out over which returned profits to the growers in proportion to the Grand valley The amazing feature of these facts is that if the growers had not fought the frost last spring the crop would have been a total as it was the previous two or three stated that early estimates of- growers-were to the effect that at an expenditure of for fuel and labor in orchard the gross returns to the state of Colorado would be According to the above figures given from the Grand valley and Delta county- the early estimates of the growers were more than is just fairly sizzling with orchard He is' thoroughly convinced of necessity of applying that method of protection against the frosts which come late in the and is day and night to convert When he first planted his apple was referred to as being crazy but he kept on tending his trees until the first crop was then his were sorry they had not followed his good So he proposes to keep at orchard his crop was saved last year by a rude system of and with the late improved smudge is willing to meet Jack Frost in any kind of a It would be well for all the horticulturists to take their cue from Box Elder |