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r " P 4 '• • ** -f-* " •„?*. "> ; **\ Jl V r vxjm 8£A5//Y£JJ £ffOOF _ i-jir/?n ̂ ALAnn, me mERnonsm Mi SSWec **&/*£JSRVOJR HEKJTR D£J7/?£D L£7f<?T/i OF BlfRTf AJ1Y '1% §k.'M How up-to-date orch- §Mardists protect their crops and laugh at the ghost of bank­ ruptcy by 9 using smudge pots to drive away killing cold dur­ ing the blossoming period By Robert H. Moulton ITHIN the last two yeayrs an' other and a greater triumph oi scientific horticulture has arrived; another natural enemy of the things that grow and bring forth fruit has been vanquished. Jack Frost, long king of the fruit crop, has been dethroned. Fruit growers have literally built millions of ores under him, and burned him out Scientific orchard heating hat made it possible to raise tne temperature of a 200-acre orchard " ten to fife teen dtgrees with as much certainty aa Janitor can heat the city man's flat. It takes som iffrat more labor than the last mentioned process^ but the satisfaction and the profits of "heating all outdoors" are surpassingly greater. Frost insure imce for the fruit crop is now Just as practicable. Just as certain, and vastly more profitable for the Ittoney expended than either flre or life insurance; j* . v, *• Insurance by Are for the fruit grower makes * v tistly greater profits at a much smaller expens# tian insurance against flre does for the merchant dp manufacturer. The little outdoor oil stoves an$ €©al furnaces that have been sold by the millions t« orchard owners in the last year and a half hav« banished from the fruit grower that annual earljfy spring nervous prostration from fear of frost; thai periodic, paralyzing fear that he may go to bed at night and awakeij to find his whole year's laboip chilled to death by a sudden frost. The cumulativ|£ despair of losing three or four fruit crops in suo Cession that has put fruit growers out of businesi!^* and made them dependent on charity or day labor IS past. An orchard with a reasonably industrious and provident owner can be made to yield an aver­ age crop every season so far as the frost is co^- ' cerned. Scientific frost fighting with fire is as much a fact as seed testing, irrigation* fertilizing, spraying or pruning. It is the last and greatest advance in systematic'horticulture, and has placed • tike fruit grower abreast of the scientific farmer. • • * Since the beginning of commercial horticulture,' tie fruit grower has been at the mercy of the ele­ ments. He made all his calculations, all his plans/' all his business arrangements contingent on the hope that the frost would miss him. And before the development of orchard heating the chances against him were getting worse in the frost belt* In the modern, commercial orchard, the land, ma- "drinery, labor, spraying equipment and cultivation total as heavy an investment as many manufactur­ ing enterprises. And when two or three crops in •accession were wiped out by frost, the average grower was completely bankrupt. Smudging, or the formation of a dense blanket of smoke over the orchard, had been practiced with varying degrees of success in some parts of Europe, Orchard heating proper was first used in Califor*v nla, and the original California smudge pot is still successfully employed in many orchards. In the spring of 1910 several growers in the Grand valley 4f Colorado experimented with the burning of oil In simple pots of the "lard pail" type, with the result that they saved their entire crop on the he^t- • etf areas and lost it on the unheated tracts. The spring of 1911 saw the adoption of the smudge pots on every fruit section of the state, and they reached the experimental stage in several other States. In the spring of 1912 th^re was not a fruit growing state without them, and many sections of several states were as fully equipped as Colo­ rado. "-£4 Frost fighting is not an easy job. It is necea- fiary to have a force of men, industrious and care- &1 and observing to the last degree. And it is no pleasant task to rush out into the still, cold dark- . ness to drudge the better part of the night to save your own or your neighbor's orchard. In the early days of orchard heating, a man was detailed to watch the tested thermometers that were hung in different parts of the orchard and at the farm- bouse some distance away from the fruit trees. If the temperature was not sinking fast, perhaps the rancher went to bed for a brief nap, setting his alarm Clock to wake him at intervals through the night. Nowadays he can go to bed with a feeling Of secyrity, leaving the frost alarm thermometer to watch for him. This electric watchman has for Its business end in the orchard a specially made thermometer, with a fine platinum wire fused Into the mercury at the freezing point or at whatever1^ ta considered the danger point. As soon as the mercury sinks below this wire, the circuit is broken and the alarm at the head of the orchard boss'^ Ijed rings out Its warning. Any interruption of the current causes the bell to ri^g that if the apparatus should be put out of order It automat* Ically tells on Itself. Q % j But the orchardist Is nsually forewarned, even before he goes to bed, and makes ready for the fcay. Late in the afternoon he notices great fleecy or/tE? Bi/swzv rwor fnosr alar/i fc'Jv "S 1> s: - /*&<:: t' ~ 'fy £• V? clouds hurrying from the northwest, chased by a bitter wind which seems to have been Intended for January, rather than this April night. He goes to the post office for tfle day's mall and in every window sees the warning of the diligent local gov­ ernment weather forecast: "Freezing temperature - tonight." By seven o'clock the government ther­ mometer Is at 87 and falling fast. As 7:80 o'clock he telephones the weather man and gets the reply: yjBltter cold all over the country; temperature is already down to thirty-seven in many parts of the Wiley and will drop to twenty degrees on the Western slope of Colorado tonight." By eight " o'clock it has fallen to 32, his alarm begins to ring and he knows that King Frost with his icy-fingered warriors is marching on the camp. Steam whistles are beginning to shriek all through the valley to x warn the growers of the all-night siege. Farm Wagons laden with coal and oil rattle past, giving evidence that the laggards who have been hoping to the last, are beginning to get their heating ma­ chinery into action. Alrendy the early ones are firing heavily. Clouds of smoke hang low over the trees, and the little spots of fire beneath punctuate /the blackness with rays of hope. 1 The orchard firemen dash for th$ trees, a torch In one hand, and a gasoline can to aid in quick lighting in the otjier. Dashing a few drops of gaso- Jt&e on the oil, they apply the torch, and the is at work. The lighting is done as fust as the men cnn walk through the orchard, leaving a trail of smoke and fire behind them. In fifteen mii*»~ Utes each man has his tract of orchard transformed into a sea of flame under a cloud of smoke. Then comes the first period of rest. The men gather In the packing house or barn, for lunch or smoke, making occasional trips to the thermomer ters to see that the fire is doing its work. By 9:30 o'clock the'thermometers outside the orchard reg­ ister 28, and those In the area of heat show a com­ fortable 87. Then the frost fighters know that thgT battle is half won, for keeping up the temperature is a good deai easier than raising it when It ha# once reached the limit. The rest is a matter of vigilance. If the heater is of the regulated type, with enough fuel to burn through the night or longer, a few men^ are left to watch and open the burners wider if a later sudden fall of temperas ture shows that more flre Is needed. If the heater^ ' are of the uniform single-burner type, they ma|,: need to be refilled when they are nearly burned outf­ it the frost battalion should come back for another* charge. The outside thermometers drop to 24. and ' those in the orchard stand at 30, the danger mark of the orchard frost lighter. The heaters are opened wider, or refilled if burning low, and the mercury shoots up to 33. The eight degrees of frost has been driven away, and If the oil supply is plentiful, and the labor unflagging, the orchardist may now consider the battle won. When the sun has shed his rays over the trees long enough t<! m a k e t h e o u t s i d e t e m p e r a t u r e m o r e n e a r l y t h a t o f . . the orchard, the heaters are shut off by inereljf, putting on the covers. Heating In the spring of l&ll was much easier l*an that of the year before, and proved more con­ clusively than ever the effectiveness of the fires. The crop in the Colorado fruit area for 1911 aver­ aged about 55 per cent. The unheated orchards yielded frftm 20 to 7£ per cent of a crop, while the field of the protected orchards was from 95 to 100 per cent, so heavy that thlnnlhg was necessary in tinany of them. • . ' Individual testimony to the efficiency of orchard heating liKevery fruit growing state ^ould be multi­ plied indefinitely. Fruit crops valued at $250 to ."11750 an acre were frequently saved at a cost of •even to ten dollars an acre. One Colorado grow­ er, for Instance, with 50 heaters to the acre raised /the temperature of his 40-acre orchard from 18 to degrees and produced 41 carloads of apples. One of the most remarkable stories of heater suc­ cess comes from Missouri. A 240-aere orchard lo­ cated in a deep valley had suffered severely from frost every year and had not produced a fall crop for 14 years. Against the advice of all wise-acres, two brothers from Kansas City bought it, and equipped It with 5,000. heaters of the, controlled or graduated type. With 85 or 40 pots to the acre, the firing was done for four nights at the time the apples were in bloom. They harvested a crop of 15,000 barrels, valued at $45,000, and it was the only crop in that fruit-growing territory. The net profit on each acre approximated $200, The first cost of Installing an oil-heating plant Is higher than for a coal or wood outfit, but the results in time saved and efficiency gained have made it the most popular fuel. Oil can be ob­ tained in quantity at prices ranglng/<from four to seven cents a gallon, and it makes a quick, strong and easily controlled heat. One man can care for from three to five acres of orchard for four or five hours and this Is about as long as It will be neces­ sary to burn under ordinary frost conditions. The prices of the oil heaters range from twelve cents for a simple "lard-pail" type to 45 cents for one of the controlled fire-area type, holding there gal­ lons and burning at full capacity for ttm or twelve hours, or even longer if regulated for a smaller blase. HONKCY FLE8H H18 ONLY MEAT. Too proud to beg, and finding himself on the verge of starvation because of the impoverishment of his noble family in Europe, Count Franz Lszar- inni, a remittance man well known in Central -America, \v$nt to a jungle near Managua, Nicara­ gua, and kept himself alive for five months' by eat­ ing monkey flesh and roots and berries, according to reports to marine corps headquarters there, i A party'of United States marines "while on a big game hunting expedition discovered the titled foreigner and took him back to the Nicaraguan 'capital. v , The count, half starved and nearly mad be­ cause of the privation he had suffered, fought his rescuers and begged them to let him remain iu the jangle, the reports say. The marines overpowered him, however, and are now attempting to nurse him back to health and reason at their commodious bar- tacks in the American legation.. . **Tree Stump as Lamp-Past In a Pasadena, Cat., front yard there stands an Id sycamore stump about ten feet high. Near ie top are the stubs of two branches. The owner of the property lately conceived the idea of using the stump for a lamp-post, and In the top at the end of each branch he has placed electric light bulbs, connected with the powerhouse in the usual way. The result has been picturesque |n the extreme, especially on a very dark night. Life's Little Worries. ^ Life Is a tender thing and is easily molested, lliere is always something that goes amiss. Vain Vexations--vain sometimes, but always vexations. The smallest afcd slightest impediments are the most piercing; and as little letters most tire the eyes, so do little affairs most disturb us.--Mon­ taigne. •'MW MUCH IN LITTLE * Rust will disappear from steel If Awaked-In sweet oil for a day, fbl- I • lowed with a rubbing with fresh lime. Si/ ' An Englishman has invented'a de- ^ ' vice to enable aviators in flight to pick g op messages from the ground by drop- 5 ping a grapnel at the end of a line. # Russia's cross of St. Andrew has a ^Winarkable peculiarity attaching to It. i V V " All who are decorated with it have " " ' -'the right once to demand pardon for f A Bussijin subject condemned to death. In Norway there is being built a Plant that will produce 4,000 tons of aluminum annually. North and South America! together produce at present about 78 per cent of the world's copper supply. Holland's mines are now producing coal at a rate of about 2,000,000 tons a year. Argentina's sugar crop for current year reported greatly damaged by ad­ verse weather; sugar exports from the United States to Argentina is the larg­ est in the history of that trade. Periey 6. Candler of Brighton, Me., sold a rooster to a resident at the other end of the village, and carried the fowl In a bag to its new home. The next morning the rooster showed up in its old home, having traced its way across the entire village. Poison lake, so-called, lying near Douglas. Ariz., has been found impreg­ nated with nothing more dangerous than epsom salts, and a company has been formed to extract that medicine from its waters. There are but few wild animals in the neighborhood. ̂ FROM ALL OVER J New Zealand has an an mini death rate of less than one per cent. Britain contains 13,000 interned Ger­ man prisoners. \ New South Wales, Australia, is ex­ pecting a large immigration from the United States after the war. Realizing that bass feel the hot weather, Hibard Raymond placed a cake of ice In ,a jx>cky, cove in Lake Keuka, |£^!^ .i&Wht elg£t fine fish. ' Steady Business Man Quits Wife and Children for Stenog^. •} - * ranhilt* •" ftnlMmiil *' ' * Glr^s Telegram ShowA" €6uTtf Resist Mature Admirer--Her Bj- ?,^Hothe4 Away WitKJHi* State Regiment^ Boston, Mass.--dharles' forty five years old, treasurer of the Louis E. Merry company, bakers, with a fine residence In Maiden and a sum­ mer home In North Weymouth, has eloped with the sweetheart of his nineteen-year-old son, Leslie, who ha» been with the Massachusetts militia at El Paso, Tex. The broken-hearted mother of Mr. Gretter's three children .admitted that fact at the Gretter home. She was corroborated by the father of Mildred Merrill, twenty-two years old, a stenographer, who. sacrificed her sol­ dier sweetheart and her home to elope with a man old enough* to be her father4. Crushed by the weight of a double sorrow--his mother having commit­ ted suicide two weeksfffgo--Fred Mer­ rill of Eastman road, Somerviile, quoted from a yellow slip of paper: "I fought him for six years. "MILDRED." It was a telegram he received last Sunday from Worcester, in which his daughter told of her step. Employed in His Office. Where she and her forty-five-year- old companion may be now is not known either to Mr. Merrill or Mrs. tJretter. "I want my husband home again in spite of everything," said Mrs. Gret- ter. • i "AK I Want Is my little^ daughter back agaixi," said Mr. Merrill. Miss Merdll was employed as a stenographer for several years In Mr. Gretter's office, and the two were open- £ Eloped With His Prospective Daugh­ ter^ n-Law. ly fond of each other's society, but no one thought;, that Mr. Gretter's liking was anything more than admiration of his supposedly prospective daugh­ ter-in-law. The fact that Mr. Gretter frequent­ ly took Miss Merrill riding in his tour­ ing automobile was known to both families, and was never given a thought^ Gretter Family Prostrated. Mrs. Gretter and her two daughters, both in their teens, are prostrated. But Mrs. Gretter has not a single bitter word to say, either of her husband or of his companion. "I hope the girl is restored to her father," she said, "and as for my hus­ band, I want him to come back again. Not here, though; not here. What is there left for him here? He has lost every friend, or will, lose them, when the affair becomes known, OH,**" could he? How could he?'* STOPPED HIS WIFE'S TONQUE Husband Used "pumbcan|e" Because He Tired of Her Chatter--Later Paid Hospital Biii Cheerfully. . St. Louis, Mo.--Mr. and Mrs. John Kearne were inspecting a botanical garden here when the gardener point­ ed to a plant and called it "durub- icane." Kearne's curiosity was aroused and he asked, "Why the dumb?" TtMf gar­ dener replied that if a leaf is placed on the tongue it renders the .ppraon speechless. Some time later Keijyrne approached his wife smilingly. * "Shut your eyes and open your mouth. I've something good for you," he^said, and his wife obeyed. At the city hospital Mrs. Kearne recovered her speech and she told on Kearne. He confessed. Likewise he footed the hospital bill. "I didn't have faith In what' that gardener said, but sometimes my wife talks too much and I thought Pd try It," he explained. •. SEWED UP EYES OF HIS HOGS Farmer Says He Did It to Prevent Their Catching Chickens--Court Fines Him for Cruelty. . Trenton, N. J.--Because he sewed up his hogs* eyes to keep them from catch­ ing chickens, Joseph K. Leigh, a Pleas­ ant Valley farmer, has been arrested and fined $20 and costs. Leigh's only excuse was that "father used to do iL" Some visitor® in the neighborhood discovered the practice and notified Wallace P. Thornton, an S. P. <L\ A. officer, who made the; charge. The full iieualty is $1250 fine and six mouth*' imprisonment. L. DOUGL "THE SHOE THAT HOLDS ITS $3JOO S3.50 $4.00 14J Save Money by Wearing W, b. ihesfc Fara«e njroverdOOO The Best Known Shoes ir* the World. W. L. 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