Parowan Times | 1923-09-26 | Page 8 | Planning to Set out Trees

PLANNING TO SET OUT TREES farmer will do well to learn all he can about varieties he proposes propose to purchase the farmer fanner who Js is going coset to set an orchard will do well to learn all he can about the varieties he proposes to buy this in regard to their adaptation to his soil and climate as a well as to their fruiting habits their keeping qualities and their resistance to insects and disease widely advertised novelties should be avoided until they have been tested out by competent judges tor for not more than one in twenty of these la Is worthy of general planting there Is too much of a tendency tend clicy among farmer orchard planters to set too wany many trees of early varieties desirable enough in limited numbers but when it comes to four or five fire yellow tellow transparent red june or other fine early sorts there will be more fruit on them than a dozen families will consume and their place would better be occupied by some standard winter sort