| Show FIGHT FROST WITH FIRE california method of saving fruit caces might be followed by uintah county one of the methods used on tile the coast to save the fruit from freezing is fighting f the frost with f fire ire john isaac secretary of 0 f the california state loard of horticulture in a recent letter gives information as to the methods used the letter in part is ia as follows we have several methods to which we resort in order to raise the temperature of the orchards when it falls to the freezing point in some cases fires are built on stone boats or sledges the fire is ia first well started and then covered with damp stable manure this makes a very dense smoke and fills in between the trees in the orchards sometimes several of these are kept going another method is to make fires at intervals in the orchard and to cover these with damp straw or stable manure avid and then let the smoke spread through the orchard it is customary to have everything in readiness the fires laid and everything ready to touch a match to and start the smudges going as soon as the temperature drops low enough to cause alarm still another method by which we fight frost is 13 to have a number of heavy wire baskets placed at intervals all through the orchard in which kindling is laid all ready to fire and these are started and the fire covered in order tomake to make a smoke gamoke just as soon as it gets any headway in some cases we make coal fires in this manner depending apol the heat beat to raise the temperature in some cases where plenty of water is 13 aall able a stream of water is turned between the trees and the temperature tem P grature 13 i raised by the steam from the water which is always above the freezing point |
