Show MISTAKES OF AN moab grand co june 1 1898 in looking over my orchard I 1 was thinking of the mistakes I 1 have made and if they were made public it would save others from repeAt repeating lAg them I 1 am writing for places where trees grow thrifty as they do here in moab in the first place I 1 set my tree too close clase together they are 32 feet apart and should have been 40 another mistake I 1 set the trees in line each way but they should hould have been set the second row 20 feet from where the first row commenced so trees will not be opposite each other the next mistake I 1 set out a lot of poplars if I 1 should go on another new place I 1 would not set out a poplar tree set out walnuts or some durable tree the next mistake I 1 set met out a vineyard all the grapes a person needs to is what he needs for his family and what he can market another mistake to Is having so much to do dd I 1 am not able to do work when it should be done A great deal of labor can be saved by going through the orchard in time and pulling off the sprouts that have started where they are not needed another mistake al I 1 lowing trees to bear to much fruit at a time I 1 find by close observation that it takes more to produce the seed of the fruit I 1 have taken off as much as two thirds of the fruit and then would have nearly as much if not quite as much and a great deal nicer now it if you let an apple tree overbear it will have off years that is there will be years when it will not bear any fruit but if a tree is properly thinned the tree will bear fruit every year it if weather is favorable it if you will take a good glass and look at a fully developed apple you will see that there are globes with a thin skin around each particular one there is the same number in a small undeveloped apple that there is in a large one and the same amount of pulp in the small apple as in the large one there i is the same difference between the fruits fruit as there is between poor meat and fat meat I 1 will tell of another grand mistake going into debt it if I 1 had the interest I 1 have paid I 1 would be so well off that I 1 would not have to work any more it is not the interest alone that does the mischief a man who is in debt to is not his own master he is a slave for others he is not free to go and come as he pleases crop here are as follows apples 76 75 cents per cwt cat peaches 1 plums 80 cents small fruits 1 pears 91 As grand junction col has lost its peach crop we will be able to market ours this year last year our peach crop did not pay anything some shipments did not bring enough tu ti pay for the boxes I 1 shipped a car to chicago I 1 got 1675 returns not enough to pay for the hauling of of one wagon load to the railroad 0 W WARNER |