The Holt County sentinel., 1894-09-21
Proceedings of The Holt Count y
Horticultural SOciccy.

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Society met at the Office Of Wm
Kaucher, n. F. Murray, president II
/ the chair, VIM. kaucher acting secre-
| tary.
Members reported offers for apples at
81 80 per barrel Of 3 bushels.
Mr.. Luckhardt reported an offer OF
$40 for his apples aud g for Jonathans.
s. - are offered at Omaha and S3 tO
SS.2j ut Sioux CITY.
A great many apples were reported on
the ground.
Price Of barrels was given at Forest
City at 2S cents
n. +. Murray addressed the society on
the subject of insects Injurious tO apple
culture. He quoted from Baily giving
the following Us the principal insects 10
to guarded rgains: by the orchardist,
viz: Pant and bark lice, green Or
brown IN color; remedies, kerosene
emu.sions, hot water, about l2oS, coal
tar fumes, potash. fish OIL soap, tobacco
water aud fumes, pyrethrum.
Apple buccuiatrly, IA yellow or green
lErva, feeding upon the upper surface Of
leaves, causing lower surface to turn
brown. The cucoons are white and are
iaId Oh under side Of twigs. Remedy
remove ami burn.
Apple curculio, soft white grub, Il
halt inch long, living on the fruit.
Remedy, Paris green and London pur
pie.
Apple flea beetle, black beetle, one
fifth Uf al inch long,feeis on leaves. Rem
edy, Paris green aud London purple.
Apple mayot. infests fal! apples, it
bores hole through the apple. Rem
ety. destroy infested fruit, pImmace
and apple waste, burn grass under trees
10 fall or spring, or spade or plow up soil
under the trees 10 spring.
Cauker worm, measuring worm, an
inch long, dark and varIously striped,
feeding on leaves Pre:en ice, bands
smeared with tar or something OF that
nature, placed around the trunk of the
tree To prevent wingleSS females from
climbing. Remedy, Jar the worms into
straw and burn the straw.
CodlIng moth iarva, three-fourths OF
an inch long, pink.sh, feeding IN the
fruit, two broods. Remedies, Paris green,
London purple, appsar just after bios
SONS fail anu IN periods uf ten da;s or
two Weeks after, cloth band about the
trunk which IL examined every seven IL
nine days for larvae and chr. sailds.
r'.:il web worm, hairy larvae. about an
inch long, feeding IN tents or weUs.
Remedy, remove and burn or crush
larvae.
Fiat headed borer, about an inch long,
flat headed. flesh COiOred, bOre5 under
bark aud INTO the wJOd. Preventive,
soap and caroolic acid washes ID June
and July. keep trees vigorous. Reme-
dies. dig out bUrers, eucouraSo woud
peckers.
RIpe-rot CT bitter rot. Remedies,
spray early in August with ammoniacal
carbonate of copper and potassium sui
phate, = ounce to gallon Of water.
Rust, bright yellow comes from cedar
trees. Destroy any thing liable to be IN
tested with the rust. Remedy, spray
with ammoniacal carbonate Of copper.
Scab, brown or hlackish scab like
spots on leaves or fruit. Remedy, spray
with sulphate Of copper, while trees are
dormant, as soon as leayes appear spray
with ammOniacal Carbonate OF copper
and the second time as soon as the
blossoms have fallen, afterwards two or
three times at intervals of several weeks,
Mr.. Murray mace extended remarks
on this important subject which we re-
gret our inability to repreduce.
Daniel Hulatt delivered short al
dress on insects and spraying, urging
the necessity OF vigilance on the part of
the fruit growers to down the evils that
lay IN their path.
John W. Davis urged every orchadlst
to clean up. burn ali leaves and rubbish,
let the hogs in to eat up fallen fruit.
He had been trying lamps and torches
at night in his orchard to destroy cod
ling moth an d thought he had destroyed
many, alsn many borers.
Society adjourned for two weeks.