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Show THE BOX ELDER corporation sprang into ' aware a Mercantile c allcl the "Brigham City and Sum t ot and stock "a' concern as the jiiv jeat $130,000 -- of the industry, backbone of ! t home the people of n'hes as which of but as the name inch "ere in practical need of, and , - c wahti-- ne uphill cadi outl.it s of niei "III i, 111 , 0it branched Ht CTTV. UTAH. , for the ations ! , Lorenzo C. Thoma-- e Ill A the company , lushed a medium i , the antagonism .u tin matter a. a violapon company a $1(1 i(k) ; petition with the a paid, and alter u not until it had - ' operations scarce, and that w nu h.-ti.paper lulls and 50c w,i- - m uM square, and bun., m the numerous a. stuff, they u n as the large t pm Manufacumnti j NEW,? . -- the expensive workings, tiallic were opened to Montana, Idaho and the west, wlinh brought a change Miners and traders would come in the fall and often winter with us, ami their medium of exchange was gold dust in its crude 'tale, with now ami then nuggets like peas and a ai.un of corn When purchases were made, huge or 'null, the proven Inal buckskin sack was brought until containing the precious metal, and a troy scale was used to measure the number of grams, pcinn-eights, minces or pounds the lull called for; the pound weight was used only on rare occasions when a largo purchase was made. The traders spoken of took our butter, eggs, flour, and such other produce as they could profitably dispose of in those locali On their return trips they would load and ties hung such things as their knowledge of our condition taught them they could turn with profit. THE MAKING OF A PEACH c By H. P. BARROWS, Box Elder High School made by man in his tanelous are the things intones and workshops; but nothing that man m any way with the things . made can compare After the loud is made m the leaves, it ,s earried through the inner h.uk to feed tin- r,.ts and all other parts of the plant Mme food is pripaiul than is used mime diati , and nine ot it is sti,uil away, to use ill sending f.uth tloweis and leaves the Pillowing spring, oi for emergencies sueh as dialing wounds or supplying new leaves when nisicis niay haet 'tripped the tree. Some of the food is used m miking buds fur the next ear's growth On voting trees ,,nlv leaf buds are formed; these develop into In am lies the follow ing year; but on mature trees, mnlir favorable eon (litunis, on each side1 ot the leal buds flower buds aie formed using that mysterious force Although little is now known of the does her work, it is hoped that nature which I, stinking her methods we may n. re closely H her serve our needs more fully. Let us, then, I.Tr some of the things now known about the with the hope that we may he mg of a peach, j'ated to learn more of nature's secret'. is so pleasing to both ;lc beautiful fruit, which and palate, is made up from simple elements nature, when Vb -- ,ali hie All of the blossoms whit h eome Path m the he pait ot the blossom pring do not form fruit which develops into pint is called the l. it is the central pait ot the flower n.und thi pistil are the stamens, winch bear the yellow, dust like pollen It i' neeissary tor tile pollen of one flower to be earned to the pistil of another flower be foie l.ees c.nrv the that pistil will develop mtu fnnt should he proso to troiii blossom blossom, pollen tected by the orchardist 1 H. P. BARROWS. water and air. From the soil is matter, found mostly in the stone seed. and which is left as ashes when the fruit l.med Water, which is also taken from the soil, up the greater part of the juice, and is also n combination with carbon taken from the air akiiig the cells which hold the juice, and in ii"ig the sugars which give the peach its deli- -' flavors and pleasing sweetness. aiost important element is carbon, which is a from the air, and when the fruit or wood is cd is given back to the air again. The hurtling !i"Cid and coal, ami the of animals, breathing oti a gas, called carbon dioxide; it is from this hat the solid element, carbon, is taken. the soil, in mineral i the e Sometimes flowers are not pollinated, and tin n again the pistils, which ate vciy He lie ate. are oftin killed 1v the cold of winter or the host of spring, so that under some cu ciunstancc s a tue full of bloom produces no fruit, and at no time do as many peaches develop as the tree has blossoms Natuie provides many hlossunis that pi reliance sunie may produce fruit, and when lift to liei'ill pioducis main fruit' on a lice that by chance some "t the of that seeds mav grow and continue the kind of tree particular We can sec that natim's ideals and mails ideals are not the same Nature desires to pioduce a great miantitv of sie-d- while man dc'iics to produce fnnt of quality suitable to hi' use While it i' not intended that this aiticle should la a tieatise on ixi-tinc- with the mineral matter in solution, is very fme roots which are covered r,ot 'airs These root hairs are so fine that e!f cannot detect them in the soil, although am) be seen on the rootlets of seedlings devel-,'by the UP germinated between the folds of u,,er' ater Trees, when root hairs, jt js is absorbed s,cr, with a its mineral food in solution, goes Jensens Two-Ye- Old Peach Orchard, Grown Without Water. ar the sunshine, and the water in the soil. Weeds and othe'r competing plants arc kept down. Each tree may he considered not as an individual, hut as a of individual branches among which there i ninny is competition or struggle for existence, just as there is among the trees of the forest or the shrubs of the thicket Man must reduce this struggle among branches as well as among trees, so he prunes and tluns By pruning he may also direct the growth of the tree where he wants it, and have his tree top down low, where he may conveniently gather the It is necessary to begin pruning the peach fruit tree young, that the head may be low and stocky. Emit is born only on new wood, so if the tree is not pruned the fruit is born at the ends of long branches, where it' weight endangers the tree, and its pickPriming means ing provts expensive and dangerous new wood, and new wood means more hearing area for the tree v successful orehardists in this section trees. practhe clean cultivation among their peach from the soil water surface of the cv keeps This tl! the so that the down weeds, and keeps evapuru tg water - nplied by irrigation is available for the trees chi mi tin period of growth and fruit formation. Aftei Oc fruit is matured, cultivation and irrigation the is ce-- d that the new wood may mature before is wood of prothe If growth coming of winter hardened and may be longed the new growth is not ,iTi; hilled When we understand the part water real- i do m the making of fruit, vve can then ha jhe . . 1 J. C. ni'tead of too many inferior ones. Toitmiatily there are not yet many insect pests affecting the peach in this section, and in our dry clnnati fungus diseases are not very serious. One must be acquainted with both the plant and animal for their control, parasiu - of the peach, and methods to be successful in its culture. how i w of the tree trunk to the water is given off, while pviural matter, is used in the rmion food fo, the tree. ' tle under side be leaf are great numbers which give off water and the erbon dioxide to pass into a little laboratory, where, the 'lied by the sun, starch and carbon and water. The nco lnS matter r.t the leaves plays an inipor- part "5 18 work. which goes on only in sun- jt e scen ",at a country having the most a' Vantage in the production s,test and be-- flavored fruits. consider briefly some of the making of a peach. When, through care and selection, an improved type it peach is produced, it will not do to leave their propagation to nature, because she will not luntimie improvements contrary to her ideals; so si idling peaches are generally worthless from our pomt ot view However, we may take a part of the unpioved tree and cause it to grow oil the root of another tree of a similar kind; this vve do in budding. Ibcita peach tree in existence is really a very part of the original Elbcrta tree. When budded trees of the desired variety have bun secured, they are planted at such distance apart that all have an equal opportunity in partaking of fruit- - transplanted, must ony through them that the sap wood w iere most ot the 1.,t with the ll8h we shall by man in '1 lie principles underlying the thinning of fruit are much the same as those on which pruning is based; we simplv reduce competition and let the food made In the haves go to the production of a few fine m wheat orchard piaetiee, tin thing' dune Peaches. The Correct Way to Wrap jn ist |
