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The Selah Evaporating Company, 



Selah, Washington, is consuming twenty 

 tons of green cull apples a day, pro- 

 ducing two and one-half tons of dried 

 product. The Selah Evaporating Com- 

 pany, which is owned and controlled by 

 the growers of Selah, is in a most pros- 

 perous condition and is being well 

 patronized by the growers. 



Currant Maggot. — One of the best 



ways to control currant maggot is to 

 stir the ground around the bushes in 

 the autumn and in the early spring. 

 The ]arv?e of this fly are in the ground 

 and by stirring the soil around the 

 bushes seems to be the most effective 

 way to deal with this pest. 



Yakima Valley has one of the finest 



crops of Winesaps ever produced. The 

 fruit is not only larger but firmer in 

 quality and more highly colored. 



Better Apples 



Bv F. D. Garrison, Georgia 



REALIZING the responsibility of 

 growing a 60,000 apple tree orchard, 

 I decided to visit some of the older 

 orchards of the East in order that I 

 might study their system of manage- 

 ment as to the selection and preparation 

 of soil, varieties used, methods of cul- 

 tivation, marketing and the problems in 

 general that confront the apple grower. 



On this tour a very interesting call 

 was made near Timbcrville, Virginia, 

 an attractive little town located on the 

 Southern Railway. It has a large 

 mutual cold storage plant, a mutual 

 creamery and other commercial enter- 

 prises. I soon learned that this was a 

 promising fruit growing section and 

 about three miles out I found an inter- 

 esting orchard belonging to Dr. Kelley, 

 who has had years of experience in the 

 fruit growing world. The Mt. Clifton 

 orchard, which has been paying large 

 dividends for several years, was grown 

 and developed by him before he began 

 his present proposition. 



The orchard on which he now lives 

 and to which he is giving his personal 

 attention lies on parallel ridges having 

 an elevation of 1,560 feet. The gravel 

 loam soil has a clay subsoil, a great 

 per cent of which is the shale type. 



The varieties of fruits used here are 

 Yorks, Staymens, Winesaps, Graven- 

 steins and Black Twigs, with peach 

 trees between every two trees and also 

 between every two rows as fillers. 

 These are Elbertas, Salways, Smocks, 

 Carmans, Belle of Georgia. Old Mixons 

 and the Fox. I was somewhat surprised 

 to learn from the owner that these 

 peaches in their fourth year were pay- 

 ing a dividend over and above the run- 

 ning expenses of the entire orchard. 

 As many as three crates were gathered 

 from one tree while I stood near by. 



ITpon my inquiry as to the cause for 

 the trees doing so well in a soil that I 

 would consider only fair. Dr. Kelley 

 said: "When I planted this orchard I 

 was planning to sell it, so I wanted to 

 make the trees do their best. I was 

 digging large holes at a heavy expense 

 here on this heavv shale soil and had 





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about 3,000 dug, when Professor Bas- 

 kerville came along and shot a few 

 holes with dynamite, merely to demon- 

 strate how it would loosen the ground. 

 I could feel the ground loosen and rise 

 when the explosion would go off, and 

 through a curious half interest asked 

 Baskerville to spend the night. Early 

 the next morning we went to the field 

 and he showed some of the men how to 

 use dynamite, as it was the first used in 

 this section. While the demonstration 

 was going on, one of the onlooking 

 laborers was heard to remark, 'That 

 young man is going to beat us all out 

 of a job.' " 



Dr. Kelley said that when he had 

 seen the rapidity of shooting holes and 

 the extent to which it loosened the soil, 

 he paid his men at 9 o'clock for a full 

 day and told them he would not need 

 them again until his dynamite could 

 come, as he was ordering that day 

 enough to shoot 30,000 holes, including 

 enough to use in the 3,000 already dug. 

 I was surprised to see the trees on one 

 row which had not been dynamited 

 one-third smaller than the others and in 

 a neighboring orchard one year older, 

 but where dynamile had not been used, 

 the trees were not even bearing. 



Like everything else, the fruit in- 

 dustry requires careful study, planning, 

 concentrated interest and an open mind. 

 This is being given it and it is justly 

 attracting considerable attention in the 

 business world. It might be interesting 

 to mention something of sales. A. R. 

 Kinser, near Timbcrville, has an or- 

 chard of 1,500 peach trees and 2,000 

 apple trees on 125 acres. The apple 

 trees are from six to twelve years of 

 age, and at that age paid for land, 

 orchard and equipments prior to that 

 year, 1915. 



The gross amount received from the 

 sale of apples for the season 1915 from 

 the orchards of Bowles Estate at Coles- 

 ville, Virginia, containing 10,000 trees, 

 amounted to $64,943.90. After paying 

 all expenses, including salaries, it net- 

 ted .*38,000. 



The lesson that I brought back from 

 all these observations is that the best 

 that can be done for a tree is poor 

 enough; it is of vital importance to give 

 a tree a good loose soil and cultivate it 

 from the beginning. We nuist care for 

 Ihe trees early and !ale before we can 

 expect them to yield handsome divi- 

 dends. 



