Show vaa taw SALT nake LAKE CITY I 1 july 1 1870 1570 E dotor editor deveret debere t hems hews I 1 for one feel thankful that painting is receiving attention from a few prominent members of our community our mission is a mission of well doing let us then labor with all the ability god has given us for the development of art he is a useful and deserving individual who adds something to the progress 1 material interests and intellectual development of the state or territory of which he is a member if a farmer a mechanic au inventor or an artist artis the he entitles himself to the gratitude and patronage of all those who are bene fitted by his useful services A new generation with larger opportunities and increased advantages will rise up and succeed ua us in them our efforts will be continued and utah will yet rank with the rest of her sisters in the acquire ments of a higher civilization tendering my thanks to those who are interesting themselves on this thia subject I 1 am dear sir air respectfully DE LA ija HARPE SPRING springville VILLE UTAH co july esth 1870 editor deseret news mews sir I 1 notice in your weekly issue of july ath an article headed worms on apple trees and being fully convinced that the great cause of these little pests la Is too much shade in our orchards and being also satisfied that other evils result from this cause I 1 thought I 1 would offer a few suggestions in which I 1 think the remedy will plainly appear in the first place when we commenced setting out our orchards we set the trees very close the maln main object being to get aa as many trees started as possible and aud an dafter afeei thus getting the trees to bear with the best of budded fruit being too large to transplant and hating to cut them down they have been allowed to grow until they now cast a complete shade over the ground worms of any kind cannot endure the sun and if I 1 remember correctly worms of this kind have donea done a great deal deai eal eai of damage in orchards in the east where there is a great de deal deai of rain and cloudy weather but here in our valleys the weather being clear worms have never heretofore manifested rhems themselves elves but now as our trees begin to spread theme themselves elves and come COMO close together these worms begin to work knotner evil is the inferior quality of the fruit grown in the shade I 1 recollect one of my neighbors here hero in springville Spring ville used for many years to raise red currants among the apple trees of excellent flavor but last year I 1 got a few quarts from the same bushes and found that they were almost tasteless the cause was plain to me as they were completely shaded bf by the apple trees hence the remedy let iet atthe C the sunshine and daylight shine among your trees but says one 1 I dont lantto want to cut down my trees now seeing they are eo so large this need not be done it matters not how close trees are set together if they are dwarfed sufficiently to let the sun in keeping thi this s rule in view suppose thirty feet each way be the proper distance for apple trees and yours youra are only fifteen feet dwarf them so that two trees will t ave no more top than one tree occupying the thirty feet or if four trees stand on the ground tha that t one tree should occupy see that they are dwarfed so that they will not produce more bushels of apples than the one tree would and the fruit will be equally ai as good ana jn short hort I 1 know of plenty of harda 0 in salt lako lake city and elsewhere that I 1 could go into not with a pruning knife merely but axe in hadd hand and would chop right hand and left dropping off big bily limbs and forks making fire wood enough to last the family from one to six months enhancing the value of the orchard from fifty to one olie hundred per cent by lne ine increasing reas reaF ing the size and quality of the fruit but ut some people seem beem to pride themselves n seeing now how many apples they can produce without regard to size or quality respectfully i r J i JM J 31 PIERCE I 1 |