The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-02
THEFARM AND GARDEN
How to Guard Against Fruit
and Tree Pests.
FROM WASHINGTON

Farmers Have a Fair Supply Of Winter
Feed Requisite in Storing
Sweet Potatoes.
]. F. Coass, inspector of the Wash.
ington State Board of Horticulture,
writing of guarding against fruit pests,
says:
For the purpose of preventing the
incoming and dissemination of injuri.
GUS insect pests, our state laws require
the utmost care on the part of those
bringing into the state and dealing in
nursery stock or fruit that may be in
tested. Our laws in this regard are
deemed by many to be unduly strin-
gent, and heretofore the state board of
horticulture has been very lenient and
slow in carrying out its provisions.
But it is agreed by all that more care
fulness must be observed by dealers,
especially in fruit brought in from our
adjoining states known to be badly in
tested with Goblin moth and San Jose
scale, two of the most injurious and
worst insect enemies of our fruit inter-
ests.
AS yet our state, west of the Cas-
cades, has been comparatively free
from these pests. Just at present the
fiat has gone forth that no more apples
containing the larvae of the Goblin
moth will be allowed to be sold in
Portland, Or, and it is feared that
much of such infested fruit will be
shipped over to the Sound cities. Our
dealers should therefore exercise the
greatest caution in handling fruit from
our sister state, as our board is de-
termined that we shall not be made
the dumping ground for such ship
ments. "a word to the wise," etc.
All nursery stock brought into our
state should be inspected before dis
posal or dissemination. A lack of
knowledge of the requirements of ou1
laws on this point seems to be common.
In every case parties in receipt of nur-
sery stock should notify the inspector
of the district, who will give all neces-
sary information, etc.
A Word About Feed.
Winter will find many farmers with
a fair supply of feed for their stock,
but in many instances this will be very
largely of one kind, such as corn and
fodder, which will make the ration
too broad if fed as the principal food of
the COWS, and others have oats, peas
and possibly clover-hay in excess, with
out proper proportion of starchy
foods to 60 with them. Animals will
live on few varieties, even if the food
elements in them may be broad, or mar
row, but it costs too much to burn
protein for fuel, or make energy out
Of starch, or the carbohydrates. Glover
hay fed alone comes quite near being
balanced ration, as the proportion of
starch to protein is little over to 1,
while with corn fodder it is not far
from 10 to 1. Now as COW needs not
far from two and a half pounds of
protein day, she must consume full
100 pounds of corn fodder day to get
it, and would get twice too much
starch, which is first impossible for the
cow to do, and second to digest if pos
sible. To get full ration out of the
clover hay, she must eat fully thirty
five to forty pounds in twenty-four
hours, which is too much tax upon the
system, so it is matter of economy
FOR the farmer to give part at least
Of this protein in the form of a pound
Or so of oil meal day, few pounds Of
bran or gluten meal. Where one
is feeding silage, if an addition is
made to it of ten pounds of clover-hay
and five pounds of bran and two
pounds of oil meal, we have a pretty
we'll balanced ration, or if silage is
out of the question, then what bright
corn fodder the COW will eat up clean
a way-the demand, and
then the cow is being economically fed,
provided this cow is being not COM
PEELED to use up the most of this ration
to protect herself, to Withstand un-
needed, and worse. unnecessary ex-
posture. A ration well fed to we'll
housed animals is a 33 per cent.
economy.
A New Tree Pest.