Show BEST METHODS OF FROST FIGHTING How v California Fruit Growers Try to Keep Off Their Worst Enemy Acting under instruction from Crom ruin the lie County Count Horticultural society Inspector tom tor John I p I tho tImo CallI Call- Call I I bori board of rh horticulture rc n Ji- Ji IDl hi t t U of h II I g w 1 Ill 1 8 received nel I an answer from coma the secre secre- lar tary John Isaac QC of or Sacramento giving In lug ing the following ln information Wo 0 have c several methods to tu which we wc e resort reson in in order ordem to raise the temperature tem hem of the time orchards when It II falls to thc lie freezing point In some cases fires are arc built on stone boats boals or 01 Tho rho fire Ore is first well weli started and I then hemi cn covered cred with damp dami amp stable manure This liuis mal eb a tl m. m very cry dense demise e and hills fills In het between the trees In iii time the orchards Sometimes several of these are kept going Another J method Is to make fires ai Qt iner as als alsin In tho time orchard an aud to cover Io these with dam damp straw or 01 stable staDle manure and amid then lien let the smoke spread through tho ho orchard It Is customary to have havo everything o In readiness time the tires fires lal laland laid and everything c ready to touch a match to 10 an and amid start the smudges going as soon loon as the lie temperature drops low enough lo to cause causo alarm Still another method by hy which we wo lIght frost Is to have a number of oL heavy hear wire baskets placed at al intervals all through the or orchard orchard or- or chard In lii which kindling is laid Jal all allI I meady cad to fire Ure and amid these arc are started and the the hue lire fire covered CO in lii order to mal make a smoke just as soon as It gets gels an any headway In n some sonic cases we wc mal make e coal flees fires In lii this ibis manner depending upon the lie heat to mire the he temperature In some somo cases where plenty of uC water valor is available a stream of or wa water er is turned between the trees and the temperature Is raised by the lie steam from from the time water which Is always s above c tho lie freezing point mi t. t |