| Show I 1 METHOD M E r I 1 HO TV OF 0 F fi H T I 1 N FROST 9 ST 1 california Horticultural H orti cultura list offers suggestions a 1 that may be of value valt e to the aas tern utah fruit tree inspector john P sor 4 enson acting under the tile instruction of the 9 jt lake county tural society recently addres addressed seda a communication to the california ii state board of aortic horticulture asking f for motion mation as to the california method of fighting frost with fire has received tho following letter from john isaac of sacramento in answer to the tile question ased we have several methods to which we resort in order tc raise the temperature q of the orchards when it falls ti tache che freezing point in soma cases fired are built 01 beono beata or sledges the fire I 1 first well started starL cd and then covered with gat damp stable manure thia makes a very dense smoke and fills rills in between the trees in the orchards some T times several of these aro are kept kep t go ing another r method ie Is to malce fires at intervals in the orchard and to cover these with damp straw or stable manure and then to let the spread through the orchard it is customary to have everything in readiness the fires laid and everything ready to touch a to and start the going as soon as the tempe ruvo drops low enough to cause alarm still another method by which filch we fight frost 14 to have havea a number of heavy heary wire baskets placed at ln intervals all through the or orchard chardin in which hind kindling ling is laid all ready to fire firer and these are started and the fire cohered la f order to make a smoke just ejust aa as soon as it ethany headway in some cases bernake we make coal fires in thia this depending upon the heat to raise the temperature in inbode soffie cas cases where plenty of water is available a stream of hot water is 1 turned between bet veen athe he trees and the temperature tan erasure is raised by the steam from the water which ia is alays above reeling |
