The herald., 1893-12-24

OF witness transplanting was effected
better by removal OF leaves and the tree
grew better for it after removal.
Mr.. Knox-"Did you see Mir. Bald
wins trees?'
II saw them a short time ago. They
looked badly. They were in an alfalfa
patch, with lot of peach trees in the
same orchard. Alfalfa catches all the
moisture and impoverishes all the trees
planted in the same field"
In reply to question from Mr.. Hay,
witness said he had never seen decid-
uous tree injured by the process OF
fumigation. He believed the gas in
chemicals used in the car, and as the
car was not air-tight he had to use an
increased amount OF gas. The object in
fumigaton is to keep everything air
tight in the car. If done by placing a
tent over growing trees it requires 40
minutes, while in car that was any
wise air-tight 80 minutes would be sui
hcient. He received averages OF 81 per
day from parties who hired him, and Mr..
Millard charged $5 per day. When he
found scale ON trees he notified owners
to clean up, for which he was paid by
the county. Had been five months in
the employ OF this county. experiment
ing under Professor Coquillett at the
Wolfskill orchard.
@. A. Kaufman, sworn-Testi6ed he
had been farmer and fruit raiser, and
had been an inspector of insect pests
for the county for the past three years.
In the spring of 1889 Walker & Sons
brought shipment of trees here from
Florida, and they were scattered all
over from Downey to Whittier. The
purple scale was not discovered on
them till the following year, when an
other lot was brought out which was
worse infected than the fret lot. Wit
ness first saw this lot OF diseased trees at
Downey. Several persons were present,
but none of them knew what it was.
Mr.. Geary proposed to send it to Profess
sor Coquillette, which WAS done, and
the professor said it was the purple
scale. II everybody had taken general
interest in the matter at that time it
could have been got rid of. 1t broke
out vlrulently at Whittier, and seemed
to be very hard to stamp out. Thinks
the purple scale has abated somewhat.
Have served notices upon all infected
orchards by order of Mr.. Scott, wner-
ever such are known to be diseased.
His belief was that If the orchard grow
ers would take the same interest in
their trees that Mr.. Scott did, there
would soon be q cessation of this dis
ease. Some men do not need warning
they detect the presence OF scale and
try to stamp it out of their own accord.
Others will do nothing to eradicate it,
and expect the county to do everything
and pay all the expenses of the proceed
Of "a rnh do IN
the neighborhood of Rivera that are in
ers think that the county ought to do
the most of the work of reclaiming
| these trees. 1t is very difficult thing
to detect the purple scale on any tree,
and, being easily overlooked, the dis
ease often gets such a start that it ia
difficult to eradicate it.
Mr.. Knox-'Do you think there is
any certain cure for the purple scale ?"
"Yes; the only way is to cut the trees
back as close as possible and wash them
with SOAP and coal oil. / know OF an
orchard belonging to Mr.. Root, near Ri
vera, which has been treated in that
7 way na--sis-avssrta healthy orchard
He did not believe that fumigation was
of any value while the scale is in the
egg stage. Did not find the people about
Downey inclined to hide the scale. They
seemed glad to have their orchards in
spected, in the hope of removing the
scale. They placed no obetacles in his
way as had been done elsewhere"
Supervisor Hay-"What kind of luck
did you have with the nursery men down
in your district, Mr.. Kaufman"
Mr.. Kauffman-"Some OF them were
very neat about their orchards and never
needed any notifications to clean up !;
others again regarded me very unfovor-
ably, as | stood in the way of their de-
livering trees they had already sold."
William Evans came on the stand
next. He il resident of Downey and
has been a horticultnrst and an inspect
or of o-cherde. The purple scale was
first introduced in 1889 by man named
Walker, who brought it in on some trees
brought here from Florida. He has
| found the most acale in the small
orchards, about at the rate OF per cent,
and has found it in trees that never were
| in Florida. Last year they found the
scale on trees where it was least expect
ed. All the work done is to find limb
on which they were thickly sprinkled
and then cut the tree back as short as
possible and wash the rest of the tree
with soap and coal oil. His idea Is to
use plenty OF soap and coal oil and the
scale will be eradicated in time.
Mr.. York-"Do yon think your neigh
bors will eradicate the purple scale in
timer
"I do. They are beginning to take a
general interest in driving at the dis
ease."'
''Do you try severe remedies in your
own case ?'
"Yea. wash with coal oil and SOAP
and take the chances OF killing either
the scale or the troe. have no use for
diseased trees in my orchard. | have
found less complaint from fruit growers
than from the proprietors of nurseries" !"
At 4 O'Clock, on motion of Supervisor
Francisco, the board adjourned this in
vestigation until the 4th day of January
at 10 80 a. IN.
IN INYO COUNTY.