The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-02-25
WORK IN HOP YARDS.
Growers of Puyallup Valley Al
ready Busy.
SOME POINTERS ON SPRAYING.
Vines Should Re spFink led with Bmul-
sion Early aud Often-vermin More
Tsnaelous - They Grew Older.

Vince Should Ne spFinkleA with Bmul.
sion Early and Often-vermin Moro
Tenacious - They Grew Oldsr.
PurALLur. Feb. 24-(Special. Work
was resumed in some of the yards . week
ago. A. C. Campbeil has let . contract for
$500 poles for his Yakima yard. The
poles are to Be nine and one-half feet and
will be trimmed. Webster & Weary will
furnish ZOO and D. B. Fisk ., 900 Of this
order. all to come from Orting and to be
delivered March 20.
The Meekers are receiving many orders
for hop roots from both Oregon and Brit
ish Columbia. A. NJ. Moleson. of Salem,
Or, was here the first of the week for
pointers, as he will put out this spring .
yard of fifty acres.
Out Of the twenty-five roller sprayers in
process of construction. eighteen are al
ready engaged. NJ. J. Meeker has pro-
acres. On the 10th q sprayer was shipped
to Gervais, Or. Mr.. Meeker will begin
spraying early, as he says it is important,
not only because of the enormous increase
of vermin. but also that the lice are harder
last year. He had sprayed his yard, be-
ginning In good season, and on August
. had everything in running order, and
was doing good work with his emulsion
by going through once on the latter date.
He went into the Nix yard with the same
emulsion, and bv going through three
times could not kill the vermin thorough
iy, and this yard had not been sprayed be-
fore. Mr.. Meeker said that the growers
should b appraised of the necessity of
early spraying. He said this must be inn
pressed upon growers. and they made to
see the value of such q course both to
themselves and the state. Mr.. Meeker
will make his emulsion little stronger
this year, and he thinks the quassia is the
deadly ingredient, while the soap is simply
the vehicle
Mr.. Willis Boatman will cultivate his
yard this year. and will spray with hand
sprayers and use the emulsion Of quassia
chips and whale oil soap. Last year Mr..
Boatman used quassian, which has been
described before, but without success. He
used it much stronger than he had been
advised, and even then it did
not kill the vermin, and he then
added moro soap with better
effect, but with more trouble and more ex-
pense than with the ordinary emulsion,
which counterbalanced all the superior
merits claimed for the Quassian. Mr.. Boat
man also spoke strongly of the necessity
of early spraying, because it was almost
impossible to kill the vermin after it had
turned green and began to move about
easily. Mr.. Boatman thinks the soap is
the destructive element to the lice, but
that the quassia 10 protection, as the
vermin do not seem to modest vines so
treated.
Many growers will mako their own soap
this year, having ordered the materials,
but those who know nothing of soap
making should DO cautious before begin
ming the experiment. ~ it takes great
care to get the proper ingredients to make
the proper combination at moderate cost.
Some growers say . certain per cent. of
soap must be used. i. e., when one pound
of the 80 per cent. of soap is used, four
pounds of % per cent. must be used. 90
that while soap may cost but little in the
beginning, enough moro must be used to
perform the required work to bring the cx-
pense mp to what the soap would cost al
ready made.
But very few good hops were raised last
year near Orting, but the Oleson Bros. sue
ceeded in raising a. good q hop as was
raised In Western Washington last year.
They were picked little too green, other
wise the hops would have been strictly
choice grade, equal to any ever raised in
Washington. This yard was sprayed only
once and with a hand pump. The yard
consisted Of twelve acres, and 900 gallons
of emulsion was used per acre, whereas
only 200 or 300 gallons is usually used.
| Two barrels Of soap was used, being about
500 pounds, or seventy-six pounds to the
acre. Only one pump was used, so it took
long time to spray. but it was finished
! before the hops were in bloom. Almost
full crop was raised, eleven tons to the
twelve acres.
Z. Bartlett consigned 103 bales of his
hops to London, England, with John Ed
munds. receiving IL cents gross.
A. C. and J. Harry Campbell were in
Whatcom receiving hops this week.
Eighteen cents is being offered for choice.