The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-02-26
FARM. FIELD, GARDEN.
Now Is the Time TO Destroy
Pests on Fruit Trees.
RECIPES FOR WINTER WASHES.
The Importance OF Selecting First-Class
Ewes-Earmarks for Cattic-Horn-
less Beef Animals.


To FRUIT GROWERS: l desire TO call your
attention to the necessity of looking after
and caring for your fruit trees and hop
vines early Your fruit trees should be
sprayed while the buds are in dormant
state with some of the solutions recon-
mended for that purpose in bulletin No. :,
of which doubtless you have copy, as
the secretary of the state board of hortl-
culture, c. \. Tonneson. has taken great
pains in distributing the IA, 100 copies pub
lished, generally among the fruit growers
and hop raisers of the state. Should you
fail to have such bulletin at hand l send
you inclosed circular, giving instructions
for winter spraying, for destroying all
pests and their eggs found upon your fruit
trees. Ten minutes work in spraying
while the buds are dormant will accomplish
more than days work when the trees are
in full foliage, with the pests scattered over
them. | know spraying is new work
with most growers here, but when once
performed and the good results from it are
noticed, you then will adopt it, as it will
become regular routine work with you
upon your farm. The last years work
performed under the instruction of the
board of horticulture was worth over
100000 dollars to this state, and from
the report of work performed this winter
and the preparations being made by all
hop growers to spray their hop vines early,
thus making start that will destroy the
hop louise, which warrants q fall crop OF
hops the coming year, the benefits would
be largely increased over that of Ia st year.
The question is no longer debatable
whether or not spraying will kill the hop
louise. Last years experience mas proven
it to be certainty.
The English hop growers spray ard can
not raise hops unless they do; the same in
New York, Wisconsin ana other states.
But unless yon spray early your work wall
be ten to twenty times greater. The best
formulas, and one universally used for
spraying hops, is eight pounds of quassia
chips and seven pounds OF whale oil soap.
tThe quassia chips can be bought OF leading
druggists very cheap The quassia chips
are boiled in one gallon OF water to each
pound of chips for one hour, the soap is
added while hot and allowed to dissolve.
This solution is then diluted with 101
gallons OF water to each gallon of the
quassia chips and soap. The application is
made with a sprayer. The Bean, Cham.
plon and Field Force spray pumps are
EOpu, an having proven satisfactory. l
have taken this method of communicating
with YOU. as desire united action of all
the fruit and hop growers of the state, that
we may be able to destroy the various in,
sect pests that infest our orchards and hor
yards. Please encourage your neighbors
to work with you, and should any person
be known to have his orchard or hop yards
infested with injurious insects, and refuse
to take any action toward destroying such
insects. | request that you enter complaint
against him by notifying me, and state
what insects are infesting the premises o.
| such person.
| 1t is not the wish or desire of the board
| to take legal action to enforce the law, anG
| il is hoped and expected that every fruit
| and hop grower will find IT to his Interest
| to perform his duty by destroying such in
/ sects, but if it is not done the board viii
/ be compelled to strictly enforce the law.
| J. L. BLACKBURN,
State Horticultural Commissioner.