The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-06-22
June Orchard Work.

! work for June:
The time has fully come when the
! codlln moth needs attention and the
lrult grower must spray his trees
apples and pears-to prevent the raw
ages OF the apple worm, its progeny
For several years past. in Western
Oregon and Washington the Goblin
moth has developed during warm
weather in May and month has
! transplred before any worms have
Matched. If the season has been late
the Matching has been retarded and
last year the ravages of the worm were
commenced later than usual. The
warm weather that could deyei0p the
moth did not occur this year until the
last week in May, if former expert
ence was any criterion. There has
been opportunity for the millers to
make progress and we expect the
worms to commence their work before
long, therefore we should prepare for
them.
TO secure at the same time a reme-
dy for the fungus, or scab, that affects
the apple and pear use Bordeaux mix
ture and add a pound of London Pur-
pie to 200 gallons of solution. MANY
practical fruit growers find London
purple far more efficacious than Paris
green. They consider it does better
execution and is more easily used as
water will hold it in solution when it
will not the other.
Bordeaux mixture is composed of
% pounds sui phate of copper, or blue
stone and 70 of lime, dissolved in 200
gallons Of water. First dissolve the
sulphate in 20 gallons of water, then
add the lime to same, and when we'll
dissolved strain off into spray tank;
add one pound of London purple and
increase to 200 gallons of water and
you have both fungicide and insecti-
eide, to protect your trees from the
scab as well as the worm that eats
into apple and pear
The lime sulphur and salt wash is
too strong to be used when trees are
in leaf, and should be used when trees
are dormant; but the Bordeaux mix
ture can be used to good advantage
after LEAKAGE and has been recommend
ed as having q tonic effect on any tree
that needs invigoratlng. The writer
used it last summer to spray Italian
primes to prevent their foliage shrivel-
ing, as it often has, with apparent
good effect.
An extensive fruit grower at San
Leander, Cal, told the writer recently
that for several years he has had large
crops of Winter Nellis pears when
the neighbors had none. He said this
when we noticed how full his Winter
Nellis trees were bearing, and remark
ed that in Oregon orchards this pear
had blighted for several years. He
said he had 1000 boxes in 1898, and a
full crop in '92, and his trees were full
set again The trouble has been that
the fungus blighted this pear as soon
as it appeared from the bloom This
caused this fungus to be called years
ago in California, "the Winter Nellis
! blight" As Bordeaux mixture was
! not a remedy-as l. usually is for APP
piles and pears-this grower had tried
lime, sulphur and salt as an expert
ment, with perfect success. Pear
growers should remember this, and SO
save their crops in the future.
1t is now necessary to thin all fruit
that is too thick on the trees. There
are varieties of apples that will so
overbear as not to be valuable and the
next wear will not bear at all, whereas
if thinned, they will bear every year
Such large plums and prunes as the
! Bradshaw, Columbia, Silver and Hun
garian need to be thinned when too
! full, and the chances are they will not
be thinned enough.
The peach and plum borer must be
carefully dug out of the roots of trees
as it works during three years and is
ruinous. After digging out carefully
wrap the body OF the tree for a foot
above the ground with some heavy
paper and cover the lower edge of the
paper with earth we'll billed up and
the miller will not get at the tree.
Last year used a strong wash
known as spray No. 3 in Oregon bulle-
tin No. 9-made Phoenix extermi-
nator ready for use, with directions
and washed the main roots and base
of the trunk Herewith to prevent the
the miller laying eggs.
This Phoenix exterminator, or spray
No. 3 is made of 20 pounds whale oil
soap, 3 pounds sulphur, pound caus
tic soda, l pound potash boiled
together to 1000 gallons OF water. II
is not easily made and can be bought
prepared for use in any quantity 1t
! is good wash and can be used an,
for woolls api,is apllis d