The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-08
Winter Sprays.

Prof. A. B. Cordley, entornolo-
gist at the Oregon Experiment
Station, in the last press bulle-
tin, contributes an interesting ar
ticle on ''Winter Sprays, which
we publish in full.
"Every person." he says,
"who owns an apple tree, pear
tree, a cherry tree, fruit tree of
any kind, if he has not already
done so, should plan to spray
these trees in the near future.
This advice does not apply alone
to the horticulturist-the person
who is growing fruit as a bust
ness. It applies as we'll to the
farmer who grows fruit-only for
family use. 1t applies to the
dwellcr in town yor@. city who
grows only a few trees in the
back yard or vacant lot. In fact,
it applies with particular force to
the last of these classes. The
progressive. horticulturist does
not need such advice. He knows
that the health-even the life
of his trees often depends upon
such sprays. He knows that the
quality of his fruit, and hence
the quality of his success de-
pends on such sprays.
"But we are apt to neglect lit
tie things. The farmer or city
dweller with but a few trees is
apt to neglect them. They are
side issue, of but little ac-
count. His intentions are good.
While planting the trees, he can
almost taste the fine fruit they
will produce. He plans to take
the best care of them. He will
cultivate them, prune them,
spray them.
"But when the time comes to
do all these things, other lines of
work are more pressing. The
trees are neglected. They grow up
if they live at all, gnarled, moss
covered, pest-stricken parodies of
what might have been'-valu-
able only as showing how not to
do thing. The fruit does not
equal the famed Apples of Sod
om.' 1t is not even beautiful to
look upon.
"The person who is unwill-
ing to give the necessary atten-
ton to his trees, to grow good
fruit, should go out of the bust
ness. He should not attempt to
grow fruit even for Ills own use.
He will get no pleasure from
fruit growing. His few trees
will give his premises a shiftless
look-will llsstRnplrini' as shift
less man. He will get no profit.
The land could better be used
for other purposes. He will sue
ceed only in making his trees a
breeding place for fruit pests
in making his trees a public nui
sance.
"Still every farmer, every per-
son who can, should grow some
fruit. He should plant with
care and then continue the care.
The care that he bestows upon
his trees will measure his sue
cess. With care. they will be a
source of pleasure and profit.
Without it they will be a source
of disappointment.
"Winter sprays, or indeed,
sprays at any time, are not all
that is required to grow good
fruit. But they are one of the
essentials and now is the time
to think about supplying them.
Get your spray pump ready; get
all necessary materials on hand {;
and some time between now and
the swelling of the buds, give
your trees at least two good
sprayings. There is no other
time so favorable for controlling
the various bark diseases. There
is no other time so favorable for
destroying the San Jose scale,
the woody aphis, and the eggs of
the green aphis.
eff your trees are infested
with San Jose scale, spray with
the lime. sulphur and salt mix
ture. If not, use a strong cop
per sulphate solution"