Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-21

Guetor-ssnn for June quotes Il. G. Hubbard as
recommending kerosene two gallons, soap one
half pound water one gallon-dilute with nine
parts water. Still others say that for this coast
vhale-oil soap and sulphur is the best wash,
but DO not know in what proportions 10 mix
but refer me to you as authority; will abide BY
your decision Which of the three do you id
wise? If the latter, please give proper amounts
of soap, sulphur and water. Also, how many
times and what months in the year do you ad-
wise washing the trees? If you have published
these answers in full, please tell me where |
can get them, and pardon my troubling you.
Reply: Do not use I've on foliage; it D
liable to injure it if put on strong enough
to destroy the scale. ana opposed to the
use of coal oil on trees, except in extreme
cases, and think the quantity recommended
not safe to be used on foliage. Use whale
oil soap or strong homemade soft soap, ten
pounds; sulphur three and one-Quarer
pounds; water, fourteen gallons. Thorough
ly spray the foliage when the young scale
are moving, and repeat as each brood ap-
pears. Two, or at outside three washlngs
will clean the trees the sulphur will de-
stroy the fungus or black smut on the
leaves.
THE wooLLY APHIs.
John II. McKellom, of Tustin City, Los
Angeles county, writes
When in danger We cry help. and that cry
goes out to the strong and not to the weak.
Within a few weeks the woolly aphis has ap-
peared on our apple trees, or, at least. we sup
pose il to be the aphis. The cotton appears on
limbs with Old bruises and in circles where a
limb has been cut OFF, and among the new shoots
or sprouts Just below the surface of the earth.
On disturbing the earth near or close TO the
tree frost appears. as it were, with very small
lice This, We suppose, is the wOolly aphis.
Now, my friend, is there any remedy and what
My neghbors here and friends in Santa Ana are
afflicted and will be deeply interested in your
reply.
Reply: By digging trench around the
tree, exposing the infested roots Take
some fresh Stacked lime (slacked by putting
enough Of water on it to cause the Jumps
to break up; mix with ashes, if possible;
place two or three shovelfuls in the trench,
and pour in some water, then cover up
with the earth taken out On young trees,
when the roots have not spread far, this
has proved effective.
ruit-growers should be careful and not
be imposed upon by nurserymen, who take
advantage of them by selling the nursery
stock, the roots of which are infested by
woolly aphis.
GOBLIN MOTH.
The following deter was received from
Mr. Treat and is worthy of perusal by
fruit-grOWers. As manager of the Oak
successful pest tiends in this State:
DAvIsvILLE. June II. 1854
Adtthetg Cooke, Esq.-DEAR SIR: Last autumn
after we were through picking our fruit, had
my fruit baskets examined thoroughly twice 10
destroy all the larva of Goblin moth. We found
q great many in the rim and hoops of the
baskets, and concluded we got them all, but to
make sure | had them all packed away in a
tight room. We had occasion to use some
baskets and we found thousands of Goblin moth
ont hn win nf HON Int
some were alive. | would not believe il posi-
Bile there could have been so many left in the
baskets after we examined them so thoroughly.
This shows how important il is for Orchardists
to take care of their baskets and boxes. and
have them disinfected or placed in some tight
room after they have finished picking fruit I
wish every orchardist in the State would Just try
this plan and it would be conclusive proofhow
important it is to have this matter attended to
in season. Yours truly, WEBSTER TREAT.
SEW ENTEEN-YEAR LOCUST"
William g. Williams, Sacramento-The
specimens furnished are of great interest.
as they are the first insects of this species
found in this State, so far as / am aware
They belong to the family CfcQdid8, and
are known in the Eastern States as the
harvest fly, or seventeen year cicada Some
times called locusts. though improper.
The technical name is Cicdda .Septendtcum.
The specific name Septendicuna is in relation
TO its remaining seventeen years in the
larva state. A full description of this in
sect will be given in the next issue of the
RECORD UNION.
LADY BIRDs-PLUH APHIs.
W II. Robinson, Stockton-Thc speci-
mems you send are the pupR and empty
pupa cases of the lady birds, which are
eminently beneficial. Any fruit-grower
destroying these loses his best friend, as a
natural parasite on insect life, especially
the plant lice
P. II. Murphy, Brighton Sacramento
county-The plum foliage you send is in
tested by plant lice.l aphis). These insects
puncture the leaves with their beaks and
extract the sap, in this way injuring the
growth Of the tree.
Remedy: Use a solution of whale-oI
soap or homemade soft soap from I've made
by teaching wood ashes to this add one
third of its weight of sulphur. To ten
pounds Of the mixture add fifteen gallons |
Of water and one pound of buhach. Spray
as it is difficult to get the solu-
ton on these pests, they being on the IN
ierside of the leaves, and covered with an
Jily substance
Note-Waste tobacco boiled in the water
before mixing with soap may be used in
tead Of the buhach The cyclone nozzle |
$ the best for washing plum aphis.