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BETTER FRUIT 



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VALUE OF ORCHARD HEATING 



By J. L. Hamilton, at State Horticultural 

 Meeting, Rifle, Colorado, December 12, 1910 



THIS is now the third year that I have been 

 asked to appear on your official program and 

 say something on the subject of "Orchard Heat- 

 ting," and I assure you that it is with a keen 

 sense of pleasure that I review the progress made 

 in this very interesting work during the past 

 three years. I say keen pleasure because the 

 practical application of orchard heating on com- 

 mercial lines on an extensive acreage was first 

 made by the writer against the rigorous conditions 

 of our climate. Since a fine crop of fruit was 

 snatched bodily from the frost by the writer, and 

 the fact established that it was a practical opera- 

 tion, the proposition has grown like the proverbial 

 "rolling snow ball," until today orchard heating 

 has become a household word in the homes of 

 every fruit grower in every fruit growing section 

 of America as well as in foreign cotmtries. 



The marvel is that any proposition should 

 spread like wild fire and reach every nook and 

 corner of the world in so short a period of time, 

 and its many advantages become so readily under- 

 stood and appreciated. It is, therefore, a great 

 pleasure to the writer to feel that he was the first 

 to "touch the button" that set in motion so pon- 

 derous a machine, one that means so much to the 

 fruit and vegetable growers of the world. To 

 appreciate what it means to the growers we have 

 but to refer to our files, so well filled with letters 

 written in many foreign lands as well as letters 

 by the thousands from every fruit bearing state 

 of the Union, from growers that have heard the 

 good news of crop insurance and are anxiously 

 waiting for the latest news from the front ranks. 

 Added to these are hundreds of letters from grow- 

 ers who have actually met the enemy in their 

 orchards and groves, and in writing express to me 



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