Show NEW SCHEME TO SAVE THE FRUIT according to a dispatch from grand W II 11 wilder ilder a it resident of 0 tint that place pi ice has found a new method of eliminating th danger of frost as well as to do away with the smudge pot this system wilder claims proved successful in the grand valley it la Is so simple and yet ct lends itself to tho the practical mind with such ease that it siems si ems peculiar that it was never tried here before although so far aa as it Is knoon it haa has never been worked ork As explained by nilder W alder it consists mer merely merly ly in plowing or spading up the tile ground around the toot foot of the trees as tar far down as possible and turning water in the water freezes around the heavy roots of the trees after freezing straw 1 Is placed over the surface the straw is left there until late in the spring it can be seen then that the ground woul I 1 not thaw out until much later than common and by means of tile cold the fruit buds are kept from coming for many days after they would under tinder ordinary conditions this was tried once by NN wilder ilder on an apple ranch bouth of trinidad colo fhe rhe trees were kept back tor nearly a month and wilder finally thought the trees had frozen ind and would never tossom ho lie removed the tile straw and a month after other orchards his trees came out with ith their blossoms an carly frost caught his neighbors fruit but his were so far behind that they were not affected and he hie harvested the only crop that year that he lie ever had off his orchard the scheme so fr cin can be learned haa has never be it here in utah but sever il ranchers hae hale declared they will try it next fall |