The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-17
KILLING THE HOP LICE,
Growers at Work Early Cheaper
Sprayers-yermin on the Trees.

UEo"crs AT "Ork Early - cheaper
Sprayers-Vermin on the Trees.
PuYALLUP, April 14.--[Special. THE
hop growers and dealers in the different
vermin exterminators are busily engaged
in preparing to save their hops this year
II possible. Last year, through inexperi-
ence, many failed, where this year,
through more practical experience and
knowledge, they expect to succeed, by
commencing early and doing thorough.
efficient work, instead of the late, ineffi-
cient work which last year was done by
all growers throughout the valley, owing
in part to their inability to get the proper
material in time. This year everything
can be purchased in time, and all growers
are beginning to realize that if hops are to
be raised they must be sprayed diligently
and with properly prepared emulsion.
Some this year will spray with the kero-
sene emulsion on account of its
cheapness, but great care must be
taken in preparing it, as last
year among some growers it was ineffect-
ual because the quantity of the different
ingredients was not such as to form a
chemical union, which it must do to be
death to the insect. Two fine sprayers
have been invented during the past winter
III Wy dliup, WnlCu put the HlSn-pTICeu
English sprayers, of which there were two
used here last summer, out of the market
entirely, being simpler, more effective and
cheaper. Many will use the hand pump,
considering it better in some ways. The
horsepower sprays more uniform, while
the hand sprayer touches the points
needed. All unite in saying that it is
very difficult to spray thoroughly the hops
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ally very dense, and sometimes it is an
impossibility to reach every point. The
hops upon the highlands are much lighter,
so horsepower may prove what is
wanted, although of course the lowlands
produce about as many hops again to the
acre, so the extra expense is allowable.
Two carloads of logs have been received
here from Brazil. The first is all converted
into quassia chips, and the second is nearly
manufactured Most of the growers who
have looked have found vermn in the
ground ever since last fall. Some claim
that these are hop lice, others not. Mr..
Alvey has examined the plum threes twice
every week since hop picking. He found
the eggs until in January, when they began
to disappear. This is Professor Rileys the
DRY that the plum trees produce them, when
others think that other trees and shrubs
produce them as well. Our winter being
so exceedingly mild this year may make a.
difference, as the cold has not been intense
enough to drive the sap from the branches,
as some of the fruit growers claim that the
caterpillar eggs, which form an unhroken
ring upon the new growth, have this year
been broken, and apparently will die
through the limb having grown all winter.
The hop market is quiet on the last adj
vices from London. In New York city it
is better. The hop market is very quiet
here. Two lots are reported as having
changed hands the past week. one at IL
cents for choice. f. Meeker is about to
visit the Oregon hop growers.