Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-01

When You find the larva, if it is not on
the loose bark, remove the piece of bark
to which it is attached place it in small
| vial, and If in the summer time, inside Of
! twelve days you will have genuine speci-
men of the moth If aud Q. Fig. y. Fruit
growers cal get important information con-
corning the natural history and habits OF
the insect pests by experiments in this way.
BRIEF MENTION.
The theory that the moth deposited the
egg on the fruit blossom, and that it re-
manned there until the fruit was grown to
natural size. is mistake.
Surprising the moth matured from the
winter larva on the first day of May, the
first brood of the season would reach per-
lection by the Goth of June, and the second
brood by the 18th of August. Those ma
tured after the Goth of August deposit the
egg that produce the Larvae and chrysalids
for the next season.
Fruit growers should examine all boxes
returned to their orchards. The pest has
been spread over the country in return
boxes from market, where they have been
in contact with boxes containing wormy
fruit We have taken six larvae from one
bundle of empty boxes at the Sacramento
| Valley Railroad depot, being sent back to
the mountain orchards OF Ell Dorado county.
OF pear trees, from twelve to sixteen
inches diameter, fair hight, one man washed
one hundred and fifty per day. One gallon
of solution averaged four and one-half trees.
The codling moth wash is an excellent fer
tilizer for the tree, and produces smooth
bark.
The codling moth wash destroys aphis
and all insect life that it reaches, ON trees
or vines. Grape growers should expert
ment by washing their young vines twice
each year, as we think that it will free
them from attacks of insect pests. R. B.
Blowers, of Woodland, Yolo county, in
dorses this plan for grape vines.
We have received package of sheep
wash from the Standard Soap Company of
San Francisco, which we will give
thorough trial and report its effect on the
larva OF this pest.
1t is necessary where an examination is
made of an orchard, to examine every tree
carefully, of the apple, pear and ounce
varieties.
We made an examination of small or
chard containing about seventy-five apple
trees, some Of them large trees. On fifty
eight that we examined carefully, we found,
all told, three Larvae on the fifty-ninth
we found thirty-fi five in less than fifteen
minutes; on the balance we found only a
few
The moth deposits the eggs at night.
Part of the early fruit falls prematurely-
when attacked by larva-but little of the
late fruit falls before the larva escapes.
Examine all boxes returned from market
before taking into the orchard.
The codling moth wash can be bought in
packages weighing from two pounds to two
hundred and fifty pounds.
To be successful use every effort to de.
stroy the spring brood of moths.
Fruit showing signs of larva should not
be allowed to remain On the ground around
the tree.
We have read statements by fruit-grow-
ers that they have seen the codling moth
flying in large numbers. In our investiga-
lions we have not seen more than two at
any one time.
The moth will live in glass seven days
The female moths deposit their brood of
eggs within forty, eight hours.
The egg can be seen plainly by the naked
eye.
The best time to see the moths at work
is at dawn of day in the months of June
and July.
We do not think the female moths can
be decoyed from the trees by burning
lights at night in the orchard, until all the
eggs in the ovary are deposited.
In our experiments we found the female
moths to be about forty per cent. OF the
number Matched.
Only united action of fruit-growers will
gain complete victory over this pest.
Defer not your action-the time arrives
as soon as the leaves fall.
AN EETERPgIsING TRUIT-GRoWER.
James B. Saul, of the Oak Shade Fruit
Company, Davisville, Yolo county, read
our pamphlet of January 6, 1879. He
called at our Office and examined the
Larvae, etc, we had collected. He had not
observed any signs of the pest in his
orchard. However, he set his men to
work and examined every tree carefully,