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Show HOW CO. AGENT CAN HELP THE FRUIT-GROWER Lecture of A. B Ballantyne, Utah County Agent, at the Roundup Aid can bo given by not encouraging encourag-ing tho planting of now orchards ot commercial fruits. Even In th0 caro of homo gurdons tho planting ot apples, ap-ples, poaches nnd pears should bo discouraged because such trees will not bo systematically sprayed ahd as a result becomo broedlng places for diseases and pests and thus a men aco to tho commorclal orchards. Uo-aides Uo-aides truit produced In small homo orchards, Is lnforlor usually unlit for human consumption and Is actually more expensive than it can bo bought from producers, Tho county agent Jan urge tho careful handling of fruit as in nearly all orchards tho pickors and packers aro needlessly rough with It. Ho can aid lu tho production of good fruit by encouraging tho fall application of water and subsequent plowing of orchards, thus cleaning It up. By urging' tho growing of sorao legume manure or pasturo crop Instead In-stead ot tho weeds that usually ap pear early in tho summor. Sucli crops should bo plowed or disked un-dor un-dor early in- Juno or July. Clover or Juicy articles planted In September Septem-ber can bo so treated. Alfalfa planted plant-ed tlien should bo allowed to grow through tho noxt summer. Spring planted peas can also bo used advantageously. ad-vantageously. Those same crops can bo grown and hogs or hens bo kept In tho orchard. or-chard. Such a practlco will lnsuro tho growors a source of stoady in como much needed by thorn. The systom adopted would bo something like this. For ovory ncro of good orchard so planted to croon manuro or logumo crops two or throo sows can bo kept. Theso should farrow In lato Fobrunry or early March and sbquld ,bo, turnod Into tho orchard as soon as tho feed rcachos a height Of H six Inches. It the pigs nro not wean- H od until they nro eight weoks old and H during Uiis tlmo the sow Is fed hcav?' aH Hy on grain or somo sultqblo' rich; Ifl food tho pigs will havo a goad' start tM and will grow woll through tho eumi j mer, M Enough shorts or soma cheap grain . H or skimmed milk should bo fed to keep them contented and In a thrlv- M ing condition. In such a condition SH thoy will not do much damage" "by S rooting. Tbo pigs can ho kept In 'tho M orchard 'until tho fruit begins tpjrlp- H on when thoy should ho romoved and M returned often tho crop Is picked or M fattened nnd sold. M One and ono half pounds ot grain M per hog per dny through tho growing M act son will koop tho hogs In splen- M did londUlon. As tho llttlo as a M ( Continued on pago eight) M HOW GO, AGENT CAN HELP THE FRUIT GROWERS (Continued from pago ono) "ii t i i i i i pound por hog per day will glvo excellent ex-cellent results provided tho food ,'i nbmidaut on ono bnlf an acre of nl-falfa. nl-falfa. "T ' Ono man pastured ono half- acre of alfalfa eight hogs ranging f om ono 'month to ono year old, from April 24 to September C and during thnt time fed 1214 pounds of grain (bran, shorts and chopped bnrley) costing $17.00 then turned them Into i his orchard after tho peach crop war removed and on October 1 ho had sold 21 pigs from four sows nt $3 cr.'h and tho wholo lot had Increased about 1200 pounds In weight. Po"k at tbat tlmo was worth eight cents on foot making the total gain, In weight and valuo of pigs sold amount to $1G8. Allowing $24 for tho value of the half aero of nlfalfa pasture and do ducting this and tho cost of tho grain leaves $127 to profit to bo credited to tho hogs or tho waste fruit eaten by them. Why can't wo work such a system In an orchard. Hons will do exceptionally well In colony homes In an orchard. On five hundred hens one man notted himself him-self $45 por month for three months and n trlflo ovor $E0 for ono mohtli during ono winter nnd tbo hens ?nore than paid their way during iho'fest of tho year. Another man with' an orchard says tbat for overy bushel bushel of wheat fed ho received' $2. Ilesldes supp'ementlng tho miit growers Incomo by encournglng tho keeping of hogs or hens tho county agent an help much by encournglng proper pruning, trimming and spraying. |