The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-07-08
CHhPIN'S FIELD NOTES.
An 0bservant Correspondent Who
Digs Up Facts.
The Morning Glory Nuisance-Scale
and Goblin Moth-Cooking Lime,
Salt and Sulphur Wash.

Travelling Correspondent RECoRD-UNIoN.]
MARYSvILLE, July 4.-In passing
through some of the best land in the
State, where all deciduous fruits suited to
semi-tropical climate were growing
luxuriantly, and oranges, lemons and
bananas were showing vigorous growth,
the writer noticed large patches of wheat
completely smothered by morning glory,
and orchards whose growth was suffi-
GENTLY checked to destroy the margin
that might have been credited to profit.
Now it is well known that morning
glory, if left alone, or cultivated with
any ordinary skill will spread as surely
as water will run down hill. The own
ers might just as well make up their
minds to take the heroic measures
needed to destroy it, sell the land to A.
L. Hatch, or move away. He seems to
be about the only man who has so far
succeeded in destroying morning glory
that he don't care much whether he
has morning glory or not. From his
experience [ think that a system of
cultivation so thorough as to cost twenty
dollars an acre every year would
keep the morning glory so thor
ougly in check that it would not interfere
with the vigor Of the orchard. So far as
raising wheat on land infested with morn
ing glory is concerned, it seems that the
sooner it is given up the richer the farm
ers will be. Those who feel that they
cannot afford to spray or cultivate or
pack carefully or attend to the many de-
tails of fruit-growing that are essential
factors Of success had better sell out, put
their money at interest and work for
somebody that can.
Multiply ever so many factors together,
and no matter how large they may be, if
zero enters once as factor the result is
zero. In fruit growing, soil, drainage,
variety, cultivation, pruning, thinning,
protection from insect pests, packing
transportation and marketing are factors
of success. A serious mistake in either
one of these may destroy the profit en-
tirely and make it worse for the owner
than if he never had an orchard. One
set of men tell US that fruit-growing is a
bonanza, and others that there is nothing
in it. When we travel through the
| orchards we can see every now and then
where zero enters as a factor that forbids
success.
NOT WORRIED BY TRIPLES.
In the trip around Merritt Island the
other day l drove up to Bartlett pear
orchard that looked well at the first
glance. but very soon scale made it's APP
! pearance. Upon remarking to the owner
seemed to be the matter with the fruit he
said, sob, nothing much only Goblin
moth and SCALE" With big crop of
fruit hardly pear was understandable.
When the Goblin has burrowed through
the pulp and the scale is colonized over
the skin pear has been pretty thor
oughly pre-empted. 1t seems that the
water was over the ground when the
trees should have been sprayed for the
scale and that the owner did not know
that paris green would destroy the Goblin
moth. The Eorchard shows very clearly
the importance Of spraying from a boat
when necessary to check the scale, and a
dollar invested in paris green would
have saved this owner at least 500 worth
of fruit.
DEVICES FOR COOKING THE LIME, SALT
AND SULPHUR WASH.
P. B. Armstrong of Lodi has a set of
kettles and arches on the second floor of
an out-building that has capacity for
cooking liquid enough for $4,000 trees
daily. 1t is great convenience to have
it thus elevated, as he can draw it off into
the spraying tanks without delay.
Harry p. Stabler of Yuba City has a
steam boiler and two 300-gallon tanks for
cooking the LIQUID. By running the
Steam-pipe into the tanks while cooking
the wash he keeps up such an agitation
that the liquid is thoroughly mixed, and
by steaming it two hours or more it be-
comes thoroughly cooked and mixed in
a way to secure desired results when Zap
piled. Mr.. Stabler finds that some take
so little care in cooking the wash that it
has no more effect than whitewash. Next
year his tanks will be mounted on a stag
ing, so that he will combine the adj
vantages of his plan and Mr.. Arm
strong's. FRANK S. CHAPLIN.