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Show A MAGNIFICENT ORCHARD Wonderful Transformation From Two H Years Spraying by Prof. E. D. Ball. H A short time ago Tijn Rni'i'iit.u-AN made mention of Tom Smart's apple orchard and the niagiiiliceut fruit raised there, but the half was not told, nor can the whole of It be told at this writing. On Monday the writer had the pleasure of walking through this orchard andwasamacd, astounded astound-ed at the wonderful production, the beauty of the fruit, and most of all Its peifectlon, freedom from blemish of any kind. Mr. Smart has on two acres an orchard of 400 trees all so heavily laden with fruit that the limbs are borne to tho ground and broKcn. This condition is true not only of ono tree, or a docn, but the entile number there. Though tho . rows are planted tho usual 30 feet apart tho weighted limbs touch each other. From the 400 trees It is estimated esti-mated that no less than 2,000 bushels of fruit will bo gathered, and for the yield Mr. Smart got $000, the buy or taking the fruit on the tice. All this fruit Is as sound as a dollar, and though the records do not show It, a bunch of apples from this orchard took llrst prlc at the recent state fair. Wonderful Transformation. When It Is considered that but two years ago this orchard was not worth moie than the piovciblal thirty cents, and that the value today lies in the wonderfully successful results obtained obtain-ed from spiaylng, the public may the better understand that the hoitlcul-turists hoitlcul-turists who have been talking "spray" forbears know Just what they are about. It also demonstiates that somo do not yet know how to 'spray. Prof. Ball Responsible. Two years ago Prof. Hall, of tho A. C. of U., now iccognlzod throughout th6 United States as an export on tho codling moth, took hold of Mr. Smart's orchard for experimental purposes. pur-poses. As said before that orchard was not consldercd.of any value at all, the fruit being wormy, absolutely no good for anything. Mr. Smart had that year destroyed an orchard of equal size. Prof. Hall Is an enthusiastic enthus-iastic advocate of pioper spraying and ho went to work and for two years has kept a record of his work and the result. re-sult. He was at the orchard Monday and very kindly gave the writer a few llguies. A Few Figures. Prof. Hall's figures aro based on a careful record kept of (14 trees at various vari-ous places in the orchard. He had on Monday picked possibly fifteen trees. One tree, for instance, produced 2,522 sound apples and 2'J bad ones; an other bore 4,308 sound ones and but 24 bad ones; still another bore 4,100 good apples and 30 bad ones; and so on through tho list. This recoid Includes Includ-es ccry apple the tree produced, those that had fallen at any time during dur-ing the year and thoso picked, and the bad ones wero such as showed tho slightest Indication of being wormy. These apples aro counted and examined examin-ed one by ono and tho entire number of trees will be so treated. It Is a known fact that 8.1 per cent of wormy apples are the result of worms going In at the calyx, out of tho bad apples which aro to be found In Mr. Smith's orchard after Proi. Hall's treatment, only 4 per cent are the result of tho worm entering tho calyx. This Is nothing less than Due to Proper Spraying. H When asked how ho was able to ob- tain such berfect results, results far H more satisfactory than others who probably had sprayed oftcner than he H and labored harder In their orchards, Prof. Hall replied that It Is all In tho H way the spraying Is done. He had H sprayed this orchard twice, but had H done it properly. As an experiment, H ho sprayed Individual trees three H times, and one as high as llo, but tho jH result was no more satisfactory than IIH on tho trees sprayed but twice. H According to Prof. Hall there aro H but live dajs In tho year in which to H spray, these being the live days 1m- H mediately following tho fall of the H blossom.. Then the calyx Is open. The H secret of the whole thing, however, is H In how well the spraying Is dono at H this time. While the calyx is open M the stamen, or "little bars", form a IH dome llko bulb in the center of the H calyx and It Is this that the spray H must penetrate before the operation H Is at all successful. Tho only way In M which this can bo accomplished Is by H the use of a sprayer having from 80 to H 120 pounds pressure, and having tho H spraying done from above, say a (lis- H tancc of fifteen feet. Tho blossom M points upward and tho spray must M come with great pressure from above M If it is to penetrate the little bulb re- H fcrrcd to. Prof. Hall says the work M can not bo dono properly in any way M dllTcient from his suggestion, and his H experience and tho wonderful results M ho obtains makes him an expert au- M Rain Has no Effect. fl As au Illustration of the effective- M ness of this kind of spraying Prof. H Hall cites tho fact that on Juno 0,1005, H the day following his last spraying of H the Smart orchard, It rained very H hard, but tlris did not alTect tho value H of the spraying. As a test, he sprayed H three or four trees tho day following M the rain, but Ills re cords show that H the trees sprinkled before tho rain H gave as good results. Tut: Rki'Uiili- H uan would like to continue on this H Interesting and fruitful subject, but H can not at this time. One point of H interest, however, should be touched, H and that Is that Mr, Smart's apples H won H first Prize at the Fair. M A bunch of apples were sent to the H fair, but little care was given them, H and the Salt Lako County Ilortlcul- H tural Society, noting the magnlliccnco H of the apples as well as their apparent H lack of ownership, confiscated them. H Tills society won llrst prl.o and when H Inquiry was made it was admitted by H tho Judges that it was Smart's Woolf H river apple that cariicd the day for IH them. Prof. Hall and Mr. Smart aic jH highly elated over this concession. IH At the present time pickers arc In jH tho orchard gathering the fruit for 0. H S. Martin & Co. of Salt Lake, and will H not doubt bo gone oro tho public can H go and sec them. We would respect- jjH fully suggest that Prof. Rail's advice iH can well be heeded by oichardlsts. jH |