Show I COLORADO ORCHARDS SAVED BY BONFIRES Fruit Fruit Crop or of 1009 1000 Owes Its Etl To Unique t Jock Jack Frost The crop Of fruit In the Grand Grarld Vat Yal Icy In Colorado Colora o from the palisades above ahoo to Loma below belo at 3 COO Ct owes Its existence to n a bat bal at at a which time time when Ihen the fruit fruitt t was Jack at Frost Its age Dr By unusual generalship end lInd the work worl of hundreds or of tic volunteers the temperature In these orchards was raJ d eight and nine degrees over 2 7 miles ot of territory and a precedent was waR established whiCh will mean much to the tho future In California It Is said that the teme tem temperature liaR has been raised heretofore In some somo single orchards two or der de grecs hilt bet never to eIght degres and newer neer before hn has the work been carried on over su 80 great greal rat an area arll Plans aro now nol nolon on foot to have havo every cl bearing orchard in the Grand Vallee IC protected by next season n Gg says the American rl not that there Is any or of frost froat oer every spring In this section hut but because the tho protection against repetition ot of this years cars experience Is cOnsidered ch cheap p insurance The or of the l temperature over this large area was waR b by means of some orne smudge pots or of orman man many different types some burning oil for tor fuel anti and some orne coal soil m J placed at In Intervals In the tho orchards Oil was cUrled carried to the pots In wagon tanks tank equipped for forthe forthe the purpose Spraying machines were also used In distributing the oil A largo supply of lighters wa wits kept In readiness In II a dr dry place Many Ian or of those lighters were made by wrapping waste about aboul a twisted wire All operations were directed from Grant Grand Junction Weather cather stations d over much or of the territory and equipped with thermometers when tho tha weather arrived made half haIr hourly reports report on the tho temperature to Grand Junction When hen fleshly nall the dan danger danger ger point WitS was approaching warning was WIS sent to all the tho to light the tho tires Volunteers also In nearly I all wants ot of lire life made their way wn In I n automobiles and wagons and on bicycles over Oer the entire lIen area So well did the tha orchard heating l idea Cl that while the temperature the heater heated I area dropped nil as low as 8 p degrees within tho tha heated area arca It did not go below Ph h vo per por cent ot of all the fruit trull trees which In bloom ero cared rOt for directly while even c orchards ards owned hy by those who were sceptical or of the tho Idea were saved swed b by the tho tires In tho adjoining territory |