206 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



bulletin but if you write to the Experimental Station jou can 

 get it. 



Mr. \\'illiamfs : We sometimes have a hard freeze with a 

 high wind, how do you control smudges in that case? 



Mr. Mincer: In preparing your places to smudge in you 

 have to protect them from the wind as much as possible. 



A Member: About how far apjirt would those heaters be 

 placed in your orchard? 



Mr. Mincer: between every 4 trees we placed the manure 

 and brush that we smudged with. 



A Member: That would be in every row? 



Mr. Mincer: Every other row, in the neighborhood of GO 

 feet apart. 



President Green : Practically a heater for every tree? 



jNIr. ]Mincer: We expect to have more than that, one for 

 every tree each way in a row. Between the trees each way 

 would be a heater. 



President Green : A man would have to go pretty lively to 

 light 1,000 wouldn't he? He Avould have to travel between 

 11 and 12 miles in an hour. 



Mr. Mincer: He wouldn't have as much difficulty as you 

 would suppose for if you were going down a row, here would 

 be 2 trees that vou could light the heater, there would be three 

 right there together. In the little orchard where I saw the 

 practical demonstration of raising the temperature therc^ 

 was 1,000 heaters on 10 acres, 100 to the acre and we were 

 considerablv less than an hour in lighting them. 



President Green : How do you control your smudge in a 

 high wind? 



Mr. Mincer: You have to arrange your brush or heaters 

 over the orchnrd. At Grand Junction they raise the tem- 

 perature by lighting fires on the windward side of the orchard. 



A Member: Isn't it feasible to pile brush there to be used 

 for that purpose? 



Mr. Mincer : If a freeze would come along for a few 

 hours one night only your brush piles would save you, but if 



