Mount Airy Orchard Company
Item set
Description
Items related to Mount Airy Orchard Company in Mount Airy, NC
Subject
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/
Identifier
Mta_MAOC
Coverage
Items
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Water run to lime-sulfur cooking tank at Mt. Airy Orchard
Water run to lime-sulfur cooking tank at Mt. Airy Orchard -
Water run from stream to lime-sulfur cooking tank at Mt. Airy Orchard
Transcribed from back: This water gravity feed -
Spraying trees with rods at Mt. Airy Orchards
Spraying trees with rods at Mt. Airy Orchards -
Spraying top of tree with rod at Mt. Airy Orchard
Spraying top of tree with rod at Mt. Airy Orchard -
Spraying peaches with spray guns at Mt. Airy Orchard
Transcribed from back: Notice the peach buds have swelled [illegible[ This is too late to control leaf curl. peaches should be sprayed before buds begin to swell. (Apple should be sprayed after green can be seen in buds.) Most peachs are sprayed too late and most apples are sprayed too early. -
Spraying peach trees with spray guns at Mt. Airy Orchard
Transcribed from back: Spraying peaches. Spray guns are being used--and if made to show a fine mist as these men are spraying--guns are good for small trees--But usually guns require about 1/3 more natural to be used so much of the spray wasted by using coarse stream. -
Rear view of lime-sulphur cooking plant at Mt. Airy
Rear view of lime-sulphur cooking plant at Mt. Airy -
Mt. Airy Orchard on face of Blue Ridge Mountains
Mt. Airy Orchard on face of Blue Ridge Mountains -
Mt. Airy Orchard
Transcribed from back: Showing slope and land and location of tree on typical mountain orchard! -
Men spraying trees with rods at Mt. Airy Orchard
Men spraying trees with rods at Mt. Airy Orchard -
Lime-sulphur cooking plant at Mt. Airy Orchard
Lime-sulphur cooking plant at Mt. Airy Orchard -
Lime-sulphur cooking plant at Mt. Airy Orchard
Lime-sulphur cooking plant at Mt. Airy Orchard -
Drawing cooked lime-sulphur solution into settling tank at Mt. Airy Orchard
Drawing cooked lime-sulphur solution into settling tank at Mt. Airy Orchard -
Cooking lime-sulfur in tank at Mt. Airy Orchard
Cooking lime-sulfur in tank at Mt. Airy Orchard