DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SUMMERLAND, PEACHLAND AND NARAMATA Vol. 14, No. S\ Whole No. 756. SUMMERLAND, B.C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1922. $2.50, Payable in Advance FLYING MACHINES FOR ORCHARDISTS Community flying machines in fruit growing districts may Will Mean Lowered Cost of soon become a fact, judging Results of Entrance Examin• from the following report from ations in Summeriand, Nara• Living—Nearly Back to London: 1914 Rates. "A farmer in Kent, with a mata and Peachland. 50-acre orchard, has solved, in a new way, the problem of rid• Present day practice in the larger Reduction in railway freight rates Summeriand Man Back From Profitable Tour of Inspec• Proper Thinning and General Use of Alfalfa Mulch Would which went into effect on Tuesday, ding his fruit trees of a plague schools of the province is to pass of caterpillars. He engaged a many of the public school students Assure Larger and Better Yields Every Year is Ad- Aug. 1, is expected to have the ef• tion in Washington Fruit Sections-—A. Moyes • fect of bringing down the cost of flying machine and loaded it into the high school without examin• up with a half ton of insecti• ation, but on the recommendation of Tells Something of What He Learned. vice- Features of Fruit Growing Down This Valley. living, as the new schedule will cut the rates on the whole down to ap• cides. The machine flew to the principal of the public school, and fro over the trees at a who makes the promotion on the proximately 10 per cent, above the That he knew something about in that district, and Mr. Moyes was That the fruit growers of this dis• It is apparent that thinning is 1914 rates. height of from 15 to 30 yards, work of the pupil during the year. scattering the poisonous pow• thinning and had practiced it suffi• much interested in a new plan of trict are not thinning as they should, considered equally as important as Coal and building materials, such Most of the Summei-land pupils der. In half an hour the job ciently in the past, was the opinion carrying out this work. Instead of irrigation or any other orchard as gravel and sand, which are car• were promoted in this way as will be and as a result are losing heavily, was done, and it proved of A. Moyes, until last week, when 5the customary spraying outfit, sta• work. ried at "commodity rates," are al• seen by the list below. was the opinion expressed by some quicker and cheaper and much he learned much more of this import• tionary power equipment is being Alfalfa is extensively used, al• ready down to the 1914 basis, while Results of the examinations more effective than spraying ant phase of orchard work. installed and the orchards arc being fruit growers of Omak district, who though there are a few growing live stock rates are practically there throughout the province have been the trees from the ground." Mr. Moyes accompanied Mr. and piped for this purpose. One inch were visitors here for a few days vetch, \r sweet clover. and lumber for Eastern Canada and given out, together with .the names of the winners of the governor-gen• Mrs. P. G. Koop on a motor tour of pipes are laid down through the.lots round last week-end. Asked as to the water situation, the United States is only 10 per the Wenatchee fruit district, - where and from these half-inch laterals are A visit was made to the Experi• the visitor stated that the govern• cent, above the rates prevailing in eral's medals. The winner in the ;Okanagan district is Marion B. they spent several days and returned taken off with outlets at every mental Farm and several sections of ment system, under which most of 1914. - > - on Thursday of last week; eighth row. Nothing less than a the district were looked over. Asked the territory lies, is supposed to de• The new rates will lower the cost Brion, of Enderby, who made 432 marks. Met on the street on Saturday 300-lb. pressure is used, which, with how the orchards appeared to him, liver 2V2 acre feet in the season. of household goods, but articles a large gun, permits the spraying of The promotion list and examin• night by a representative of The one of the visitors said that he was There was plenty of water, last year, handled in car lots wiil be the prin• Review, Mr. Moyes was qui,te willing a tree in abouta minute. disappointed in the unevenness of but growers had been told that they cipal ones affected, sugar, for in• ation results for the Summeriand, Peachland and Naramata districts to impart any information of value Mention was made' by Mr. Moyes the apple crop. He was surprised need t not expect more than 2 acre stance, being transported at nine to the fruit growers of this district. of one 500-acre district which pro• to find that there was little if any feet this year. The water is mea• are given below: V: cents per hundred pounds less than He said they had been shown around duced 65,000 packed boxes of Deli• • thinning being done and also was sured over a weir to every grower Summeriand—Bessie M. Tomlin under the rates at present prevail• All Classes Write on Depart• by the district horticulturist and cious apples alone, and of another disappointed in finding so little al• and the general practice is to have 364, Mary M. Dunham 348, Eric^G. ing. The rates on other articles mental Papers for First visited many fine orchards. 600-acre tract which in 1921 yielded falfa mulch in the orchards. To water running for seven days and handled in car lots will also be sim• Johnson 331, Mildred A. Shields The most outstanding feature 225 carloads of fruit. these two latter—lack of alfalfa and off seven days. ilarly lower according to their class• Time. 323, Lillian F. Hunt 306, John D. noted was the uniform crop.. This The growers of that district have failure to thin—he was disposed to ification. Nicholson 300, Nicolas A. Solly 300, Two years ago the government he said, was made possible by proper no faith in .vetch but they are strong blame the unevenness of the crop. Eleven of the fourteen students Harvey L. Wilson 300. only delivered 3 inches because of The rates at present prevailing thinning and the use of alfalfa on alfalfa mulch. This is allowed to • Thinning is one of the big jobs in in the matriculation class at Sum• Promoted on Recommendation— failure of snow in the hills. That are not the highest charged by the mulch. Mr. Moyes declared that the grow and fall and is not even disced the orchards of the Omak district meriand high school were successful F. Edith Cunliffe, Willie Thornber, year a number of farmers sold their railways since 1914, a reduction visit was a great education and he in the spring, the ditches only being and many from town and elsewhere in the departmental examinations. Rose Bardsley, Jessie I. Rutherford, water at high prices, one man, an having been made last Debember. urged that as many as possible visit drawn. have been employed to do this work. alfalfa grower, getting $7,000 for The following shows reductions Two of the three who failed were James J .Smith, Helen L. Thompson, that district, preferably, at this time He found that the irrigation sea• The fruit is thinned to from 6 to 8 his season's water. But a few weeks which went into effect on Tuesday, granted supplemental examinations, Alice E. Trayler, Jean I. Moffat, of the year. A good crop of cherries son was • longer there than '.here. inches apart. ago our informant bought perma• former rates being given first: one of one subject and one on two, Jean M. Blewett, Arthur R. Duns• don, Evan S. Pirie, Emily Wallock, had just been harvested, the Bings Water is turned in about the 1st of The visitor told as an instance of nent rights for eight acre feet an• Vancouver to Summeriand—-First and it is possible that the thir<J will bringing 10 cents and! the Royal nually, for which right he paid $600. be given the same opportunity. - J. Leslie Gould, Florence H. Clark, April and continued until about the what this work meant, that from class, $1.55,, $1.37; second class, Anns, 7% cents. end of September, unless the fall is This, the government system will de• Until this year, the practice has Richard H. Miller. one young tree not more than 10 $1.29, $1.14; third class, $1.04, 91c; Thinning, he was told, was half a wet one, when the irrigation, may liver to him in addition to his pro-, been for the principals of the high Peachland—Florence M. P. Browne years old, he had taken 2,700 apples fourth class, 78c, 69c; fifth class^ the battle in fruit growing. Large be stopped about the middle of Sep• portion of the main supply. In other schools to examine all the pupils in 394, Paxton J. Morsh 335, Frances and expected to have a yield of 15 71c, 62c; sixth class, 59c, 51c; sums in wages are paid out for this tember. packed boxes. Last year a young words, he has paid $600 as an insur• the first and second years for pro• H. Clements 332, Ivy V. Law 332, seventh class, 42c, 38c.