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Note:  Even though this article was printed in the Troy Messenger on October 24th, 1915 it could be changed to today's date and still read as if it were just written.  The original
article was printed in Progressive Farmer.  She was our great-great grandmother.  Also, please note the climate change nonsense that she helped to disprove in her area at the time.

Mrs. Ross Folmar (our great-great grandmother), who resides near Goshen, has taken a prize by writing one of the best fruit growing articles for the Progressive Farmer.
Mrs. Folmar manages her farm better than most men managed theirs.  She is a woman of ability and her farming was worthy of especial note.

                                                                                           SPRAYING AND PRUNING PAYS

                                                                                                 (The Progressive Farmer)

Mrs. Folmar, by keeping down insects and diseases, proved by growing magnificent fruit that the climate has not changed.

When I was a child, we had fine fruit, especially peaches and apples, but I have heard people say that the climate has changed, and we cannot raise them any more.  However,
I find that by spraying trees and cultivation, we can raise as fine fruit as ever. 

We had been setting out fruit trees several years, and they would only live about three or four years and get scaly and hard looking and die.  We did know what was the trouble
and had become discouraged;  we had about given up hope of ever having an orchard.  But by reading farm papers we decided that the San Jose scale was about what was
causing the fruit trees to die, and seeing lime and sulphur recommended as a spray, we decided to try one more time, and if we did not succeed we would give it up.

So in 1906, we bought 50 apple trees and 50 peach trees.  We set them out that winter and pruned them, cutting off the tops at the height we wished limbs to branch out to
form the top.

The first year we did not have a spraying machine, and we applied the spray with and old straw broom.  The for two or three years we used a small hand spray pump, and the
last three or four years we have had a larger spraying machine, requiring two to ouperate (sic) it.  But if I were going to buy another I think I would get a knapsack sprayer,
that is for a small orchard, so that one could operate it.

After Christmas each year and while the trees were dormant we would prune the trees, cutting out al dead limbs and cutting back the peach limbs that were too long where they
were to thick.  After the apple trees were two years old we did not cut back the limbs, just thinned out the limbs where they grew too thick or were crossed, then spraying  with lime
and sulphur.

The peaches we set out were the Mayflower, Greensboro, Arp, Beauty, Connet's Early, Belle of Georgia, Triumph, Carman, Burke, Matthew's Beauty, Elberta, Eaton's Gold, and
Stinson's October.  These ripened in the order named and were as fine as could be, as fine as the pictures the agents carry to sell by.  We sold good many at one dollar per bushel
($25 in today's depreciated paper dollars)  and some at 50 cents a peck.

Prepare lime and sulphur by boiling 1 pound of sulphur and 1 1-2 poundsof lime in about 2 gallon of water, and adding enough cold water to make 13 or 14 gallons, and then added
a half pound of arsenate of lead, to prevent worms.

We also sprayed the apples just after the blooms fell.  We have Carolina Red June, Yellow Transparent, Winter Limbertwig, Ben Davis, Mammoth Arkansas Black,  and Yates.  The
Ben Davis and Yates, and  Mammoth Arkansas Black are exceptionally fine and full.  I think the Ben Davis have at least five bushels to the trees, and are pretty as a picture.  My son
measured one of the Arkansas Black apples two years ago which was 12 1-2 inches in circumference, and not a blemish on it.  We sprayed them when they began to turn re, with
Bordeaux mixture to prevent rot, but the lime was old and slacked and it has not done as much good as it did two years ago when the lime was better.

We set out the trees in rows and checks, and I made a map shoiwng (sic) the name of the tree that was set in each check.  In that way I could remember what kinds we set out.

Mrs. Ross Folmar

Goshen, AL

The Troy Messenger, 24 Oct 1915

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