The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-08-07

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more will be sufficient. He has already
! sold his roller sprayer, and from now on
will use hand sprayers, so he may make
use OF the fluid just when it is needed. His
! hops were in bloom on the first of the
month.
Some time ago it was asked how the
| aphis breathed, as it was thought that a
certain kind of insect powder might be
| used 10 kill them. which is used for the
| flies and fieas with success, but it appears
| that the hop aphis is different from the in
/ sects with which most people are familiar.
Ir. Fernandez says that the aphis breathes
| from each side instead of from or near the
mouth, and that the soap forms glutinous
| substance which covers the insect and
smothers it, The louise cannot clean the
| breathing crifices as it could if they were
| through or near the mouth; conse-
| gently Paris green, or any other poison,
| will not kill them. They seem to absorb
nothing outside of the sap of the vine, by
| puncturing the skin OF the leaf or burr.
! Thus they take simply the juice, and the
! only way to administer poison would be
| to introduce it into the sap. if such a
| thing were possible. The first flies were
| seen this year May Ii. They were present
| the 18th of June, and they were seen
August 2, but were very small. Last year
| growers were not looking for them, so it
| is not known when the first did appear,
| but they were worst about the 18th of
May and were last seen July 6. Professor
| Riley says they appear the middle OF May
and leave the middle of June.
| Some growers thought the roller spray
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one sprayer here has sprayed more than
| loo acres. 1t shows little wear, and the
owner thinks that if we'll housed when
not in use it will last long time yet.
! The demand is such for sprayers that the
manufacturers will turn out eight more,
| but they do it with reluctance, as it is so
late. Many who have had sprayers from
the beginning are selling them to other
! growers who have not sprayed at all and
are waiting, as their yards are clean, for
| other sprayers to be made. A number of
orders have been received from Oregon,
| where they say the lice are increasing very
| fast, and one order was received from the
| Cowlitz
]. Fernandez soaks his chips twice, NJ. j.
Meeker three times and another grower
commences with quantity of chips. and
to this adds chips every time a fresh ex-
| tract is drawn off. This is repeated indef-
| initely. Each man apparently has his
| own way of economizing his chips. which
| are so strong that it is almost impossible
| to extract all the bitter principle. 1t has
| not yet been determined at what stage of
| extracting or how long it will take or how
| many infusions may be made before the
| chips lose the principle.
E. Meeker reports that the Puyallup
Hop Company's yards at Kent as doing
we'll and clean of lice. He expects a full
crop of choice hops. but he says many
| hops will go to waste this year.
| On August the New. York market was
| quoted at 27@2Sc for last years. A cable
| gram from London to Ezra Meeker. on
| August =, states: --latest advices from
| plantations do not speak well for coming
crop. Vermin increasing. Market very
firm and prices shade higher" Every
one here feels at present that all growers
who are enabled to place upon the market
a choice hop will get a good price for it.
| 1t is not likely that many of the north
| ern Indians will venture down here for
F. hop-picking. or if they wished to come
would be allowed by the authorities, but
there is very little danger of their wishing
! to come If they have the least idea that
! there is smallpox anywhere around. An
| old trick to keep the Indians out of the
hop fields Is to spread report among
| them that smallpox is abroad, and
you cannot move them from their
| reservations unless a person they believe
| responsible tells them differently This
| has happened number of years with the
| northern Indians. 1t is now nearly time
for the Alaska Indian TO put in his APP
| pearance in the Sound country if he in
tends to help harvest the crop this year.
Some thinks the picking will commence
two weeks later this year than usual.
| This would make it open the first or Sec
ond week in September. This probably
will be a help in giving more time for the
/ smallpox patients to get we'll and to have
| the quarantine raised, although many peo-
| pie may be deferred from coming on ac-
count of there being so many people in the
| valley at that time. If proper precautions
are used there need be no danger from in
lection. Ii the weather remains warm
| and dry from now To the LIST of September
it may bring the hops TO maturity at the
usual time. The grower would be in q
| sorry plight if through this smallpox
scare no plckers came, IS it will require
| hundreds of people from abroad to harvest
the crop this year. Mr.. Query has just
received word that the Indians which he
/ had expected To pick his hops Will not
come. Ii is not known where these In
dams were expected from, but presumably
| from the North
From a very good source comes the re
port that - cents Is being already offered
| for this years crop, also from another
source. which is considered reliable, is the
! report that lice have appeared i'll the Yak
ina country. 1t has been claimed all tn,
| time that there were no lice there, and i
they did appear the hot sun and vino
would kill them. This claim is not prob
able. rs the lice are not killed after going
through the dry kiln heated to 100 de
! eree5 with birthstone burned all the time
The lice come out all right after a ter
hours siege, and the thermometer rarel,
goes over 100 degrees in the Yakima coun
Try, SO the heat will not Kill the lice. bu
the iadyhug Is everywhere present ant
may consume great many, and the laci
az a high humidity at Yakima may be
cause Of less production among the lice.
+. NJ. Pine is visiting the Yakima coun
try, and Will put Or large horse-powe
hop press for the Moxie Company Will,
there. J. L. Stewart recently visited Ort
ing and the hop yards along the way. ana
from his observation estimated the crop I,
be only a very lttie over half of good
crop. and all who have not sprayed he be
! ieyes Will lose their entire erDp Mr.