Show Suns cald Ruins Tan 11 Many lany Y Orchards Says Expert has taken a n large largo toll tollof tollof of oC trees in Utah orchards according accord accord- according ing to Prof T. T H. H Abell horticulturist horticulturist urist of ot the Utah Agricultural Experiment Experiment Ex Ex- station It has affected peach pear and cherry trees This damage occurs during late winter and early spring and in warm spells spoils of winter Tim The sun either by hy shining direct directly on the bark balk or by hein being reflected from the soon snow warms up the tho bark on the I southeast sloe sIte of or the tho trees during the afternoons At night the air temperature falls rapidly to a lows low point and tho the bark hark is cooled to 1 J C j j'S un 1 S b alternate activity and cooling o ol of the tho bark baric final finally kills the bark and andt Ib It t falls Calls off ocr in large slabs during subsequent year ear It has long been a common practice tice in tome some sections to whitewash the trunks and lower limbs of a al young oung trees until the bark hark becomes thick and scaly This practice could couldwell couldwell well ho bo adopted in ht Utah for actual temperature measurements of trunks I shown the tile temperature atun have havo c a temp t extremes extreme on the southwest side of ofa a whitewashed tree to be bo on only I one t tenth nth as great as the extremes on onan onan onan an tree A goo good formula for whitewash is 30 lbs Ihs allow 1 I 1 lbs Ibs Salt Salt 5 lbs Ibs i i. Make Malec into a thin paste and apply ith tah th a a brush nuEh Renew from front time timeto tim timo to time as needed and use sc sp care to o keep a good odd coating on au in lato late winter and spring |