Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-11-16
The horticultural Convention = Second
Day.

Day.
SAN JOSE, November Is hat the Hor-
ticultural Convention this morning letter
was read from WIN. Felix Gillet, of Nevada
City, clsiming that :he determination of in
sect pests is both necessary and practicable.
Au essay by w. j. Jessup was read on the
Importation of new varieties, and why it
should be stopped. He claimed that nearly
| all the insect pests in California had been
imported, including the phylloSera, woolly
apis and the coEtony cushion scale, to which
would be added, if importation was not
stopped, the curculio and the blsck knot
The advantages az introducing improved
varieties could be better secured by means of
seedlings raised here, under the moet favor
able conditions in the world for improvement
as to soil and climate The honey bee is
mans most valuable helper as natures great
hybridizsr. He believed that we are indebted
to the bee for all our finest chance .eedIings
| Even the best importatioDs comes from eli
mates entirely different. They therefore lose
vitality in naturalization.
A discussion followed.
| Haines, of Santa Clara, concurred with the
speaker, but said it would be difficult to pre-
vent imporsstion3 legally. Unless the pests
were deferred We must educate the people.
Hatch stated that experience il against the
advantage of imported trees, and related an
instaucs showing the costliness of cheap i'm
portstions. Professor Dwinelle related the
effective action in Riverside. in not only
practically prohibiting Infected stock, but
stock from infected districts, by means of q
Committee of Safety, which bought and
burned all suspicious innovations. The
State Board wanted legislation absolutely
forbidding importations, but LAWYERS said it
would be unconstitutional. The railroad
lines will cooperate with the executive officer
of the Board in the strict enforcement of the
quarantine against infected stock. He stated
| that legislation in Connecticut on cattle, and
in Iowa on hogs, gives ample powers. In
Iowa it gives authority TO seize and destroy
hogs coming from infected districts in or out
of the State.
VIM. Johnston said the California laws
were as effective as these Of Connecticut.
Holt of Riverside said not an orange or.
chard in San Bsrnsrdino county had the red
scale, which of itself spread very slowly, be.
ing only prCpagated by people carrying
oranges from Infected orchards to other parts
One orchard in Les Angeles county has it.
He detailed the determined and decisive &C.
ton of the Riverside PEOPLE to prevent the
possibility of importing pests, and proposed
resolutions against importations, which were
subsequently, debated and passed.
Owens of Santa Cruz claimed that public
sentiment alone, however decided, could not
stop the Injurious inportations without a law
to give it point.
Briton of Santa Clara said the most de-
structive scale bugs here were not imported
because they could not exist in very low
| temperature. Many shrubs and plants breed
them. A law TO be effective should reach
these. The Santa Clara strawberry rnen had
been hunting ten years for q variety to take the
place Of the old LoDgworth had spont
500, 600 in importing varieties for that pur-
pose. No Strawberries originated here of any
Il -
ing new varieties. There should be pre-
MUM on success therein to stimulate the
effort.
Stoddard of Santa Clara found no i'm.
portations infected. California has worse
pests than anywhere else. Summer irriga-
ton produced pests. He never sold irrigated
trees.
hybridizing or grating apricots When
grated on peach trees they did no. last as
well as ii grated on apricot stock; had ny.
bridized potatoes, producing superior varie-
ties sent them to the Agricultural Depart
ment, and the same kind came back here as
Eastern under new name and at q high
price.
DR.. Chaplin said in this valley apricots
grated on peach stock did well, but not on
wet land. He concurred with Britton in
shrubs being breeders of the scale pests, as
IN the Oak Hill Cemetery at San Jose, where
they can be shoveled up. and axe SO thick on
some fence posts that they look as if painted
red.
Mr.. Asher found scales in the coffee plant
and Others he received from the Agricultural
| Department at Washington, which raised the
question, How shall we educate the edu.
Gators?
Professor Dwineile. in reply to statements
thst the curcnlio could not be imported here
because of the cold. said we had now the
Southern route, and in winter very tough
little heetle, looking like dry adobe. crawIs
into the crevices. We have probably been
importing them twenty years. He attributed
which are uncongenial to it. The scales
came from Australis. Hence Mr.. Hollis
resolu ion is not broad enough. In
Oregon there is strong feeling
against importations from Infected California,
Yet their orchards BOX IS if burned--an ap.
pearauce caused by the prevalence of the
aphfs. 1t is {. mistake to suppose the cur.
culio is confined to the plum. There is cur
cuiio for apples and for peaches. He believed
we can legally exterminats the pests.
Mr.. Houston recently arrived at Napa
from the East. He believed disinfection pre-
| feTable TO prohibition.
Mr.. Holt's resolutions, adopted as amend
ed, were as follows
ResoEred, That the importation of ntrsery stock
from the Eastern States or foreign countries is a
dangerous practice and should receive the severest
condemnation of the people of the State.
ResolUed, That as individuals we will not purchase
such trees, and will all the influence we possess
to discourage the purchase OF such trees by others
! Dr.. Chaplin read an exhaustive esssy, de-
failing the labor and cost of extirpating the
| codling moth in apple orchards. His method
was to put band about six or sight inches
in breadth once around the tree, and fastened
on the upper part of the band by large
headed oval tin carpet tack. This band stops
the worm in its ascent. During the past sea-
sor, extending from July 10Th to October
DIST he gathered 1863 larya, at q cost for
labor of $50 80. OF the total yield If S25
boxes, only about two and nine-tenths per
cent. were infected. He was also careful to
gather up windfslls, and boil all the fruis at
orcs which was liable to be in the least In
fected. he also picked off infected fruit from
the trees, the cost Of which was icciuded in
the above sum. On NovsInter Ssh. after q
careful examination, he found "a larva in the
crotches of tree. He uses I've in Yiuter,
and whale oil soap and sulphur at any time.
T'hs losses from the codling moth in many
orchards are fifty, seventy five and even
ninety per cent. He knows it is practicable
and paying to extirpste those pests, but it
woGld cost much less were all compelled by
law to do il than for one man, surrounded by
neiE hbors who will not take measures TO that
end.
Mr.. Williams, of Fresno, had specimens of
potatoes badly affected by the cooling moth.
Lye aud cloth encrosches were sugg, sted BY
Others present as additional preventives.
Adjourned to haif-pas. L.
The afternoon subjects will be horticulture
and law, horticultural organic atoms and
peach culture. Tomorrow horticulture and
law, the evils Of return packages, the CUES
ton Of general experiences.
AFTERNOON SESSION,
SAN JOSE, November 15.h.-At the Horti-
cultural Convention this afternoon, w. w.
Jessup. OF Haywsrds, read an address on the
evils of return packages, in which he referred
to the enormous power of multiplication of
the codling moth, one psir Of which could
lay eggs enough one season to spoil Csc boxes
of apples. and one wooliy aphis in the same
time conld produce enc quinti.lion. ULised i
action in suppressiug these pests is impossible
without laws capable of prompt and rigorous
erfarcsmens. La view Of the indiff zrence or
obstruction of Individuals, whos& act on
could only be the result Of "pu1e cussed. |
ness SIS all ara losers thereby, the action of |
Lusk 4 Co in resisting Law for the benefit |
q all was denounced, aud Judgs Rix should |
not complain if some Day in esting an apple |
ne biks a worm Of constitution more Wig.
oreus than his decision assumes ours TO h. |