For Christmas my sister had some of my grandads old 8mm film put on CD. Here are a couple of pics I took of the tv, this is apples picked in southwest Colorado. Sorry for the poor quality
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Somewhere on them there is a clip of him spraying with a big tank sprayer pulled by a tractor. I believe he sprayed every ten days and it took six days to cover the entire orchard.
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You may want to share with the good people at Montezuma Orchard Restoration Project http://montezumaorchard.org/
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SW Colorado has been in severe drought for several years. A friend of mine owns a retirement orchard near Penrose and it’s a losing battle.
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Yes it is dry country, I believe that orchard is still there , mom stopped there ten years or so ago and bought some cider. It was probably irrigated with snow melt water from the reservoirs on grand mesa if I were guessing. I don’t know the exact location of the orchard, somewhere between Delta and grand mesa. It was my great grandfathers originally. My mother has a letter my great grandfather wrote to my grandad when grandad was young and had moved to California. Great grandfather was talking about the price he got for apples that fall.