The record-union., 1897-10-06

1894, 1895 and 1896; also a copy of
Insect Life" published by the Unit
ed States Government, and other farm
er's bulletins, ETC., which we are also
distributing.
The fruit crop here will be well up
to the average this season, both IN
quantity and quality; with the pros
poets Of good prices generally. Re-
spectfully yours.
E. H. RUST,
c. G. KELLOGG,
J. NJ. THOMAS.
Board of Horticultural Commissioners
for Los Angeles County.
September 80, 1897.
SAN DIEGO COUNTY.
To the Honorable the State Board
Of Iorticulture-Ge We here
with submit our report as Horticultural
Commissioners of San Diego County.
The tree plant the past season in this
county. with the exception Of the apple,
olive and pomeo, was much less than
Of former years. This We believe was
owing to the depression in price of fruit.
Our trees with the exception of the
pr-une are producing a good average
crop lIlIS -cI VI ali Ca u d AAl-G HAN~AAN'
This is due in our opinion TO the more
careful cultivation given to the son.
more thorough pruning and more NO.
eral method of spraying.
The vines are yielding above an aver
age crop and prices alx ruling b1toer
than in former years and the horticu-
turist is feeling jubilant over the fu-
ture. With the exception of the purple
scale M-Citricola) and the Goblin moth
C-Pomonella) the injurious insects are
gradually disappearing, owing to the
numerous beneficial insects and arn-
fetal means of fighting.
In our report of 1896 we could say
nothing in favor of the Rhizobius ven
trails We now find them in many OF
our orchards doing good work, and In
instances where our orchards have been
neglected and become very filthy With
black scale (Olea) the lady birds have
cleaned them up. We are now certain
that the Rhizobius have control of the
Lecanium in several of our orchards.
We are gathering and placing many
colonies in such orchards as we think
suitable for them to coloniZe, firmly be-
lieVing that the near future viii flnd
the black scale as scarce in Southern
California as the cottony cushion scale
Qcerya purchasD is at present.
The purple scale (M-Citricola) is
hard question TO solve. We have
perpetual fight and are gaining but lit
tie ground, if any. We have in the
southern corner of this county five
complete fumigating outfits in opera
ton; one steaming outfit and many
spraying machines applying practically
all of the different insecticides, and the
result is that our trees have about as
many scale as they can furnish food
for, and it is a question that we are
not able to solve whether or not we will
be able to control them without reliev-
ing the trees Of their branches.
The Goblin moth is gradually
spreading We thought this season,
owing to the scarcity of the Goblin moth
of last year, that one spraying would
answer in most cases, but we find we
We're mistaken. and a large per cent. of
our apples and pears of the valleys
south of the San Luis Rey River, have
been destroyed by this pest. We now
believe that all of the infested apple
and pear orchards should be sprayed
with paris green three times during the
season. The red spider (T-Telarius) has
been quite prevalent in the mountain
districts this season. and have been
successfully handled by the use of
powdered sulphur.
There has been a new pest reported,
said to exist in this county in the form
Of a larva working on the apricot and
peach. AS near as I can ascertain it is
constructed similar to the larva of the
Goblin moth, and it's effect on the april
cot and peach is similar to the effect on
the apple by the Goblin moth. This in
formation was received too late in the
season to make an investigation. The
Commissioners of this county attend
to the horticultural work without the
aid of deputies. We make it a rule to
inspect all nursery stock produced, ex-
ported from or imported to this county,
and to visit ali Of the principal orchards
once a. year Respectfully submitted,
F. AUSTIN,
Secretary San Diego County Board of
Horticultural Commissioners.
Fallbrook, Sept. %, 1897.
TEHAMA'S REPORT.
To the Honorable State Board of
Horticulture-Gen I have the
honor to submit herewith the report of
the Board of Horticultural Commits
sioners of Tehama County:
The present board was appointed in
June and in compliance with the new
horticultural law, approved March 81,
1897.
The board divided the county into
three districts, with r. w. Coates of
the Second District Chairman, and w
G. Mount of the First District Secre-
tary J. Granville Jones of Vina is the
other member.
Owing to the lateneSS of the season
when the present board came into Of
fee they could do nothing to extermin-
ate the Goblin moth or the peach moth,
which we find are the worst pests in
this county. Every orchard in the
county is infested with these pests. and
it will require very rigorous treatment
to suppress them. There are but few
scale insects in this county, and we
intend to make them scarcer. A few
brown scale were found on orange
trees. but the hot weather during Au-
gust killed them.
yellow mite appeared in some prune
orchards, but timely spraying prevent
ed any serious damage. Sheep-dip is
a favorite spray with orchardists here
for yellow mite.
One Orchardist has refused to spray
for yellow mite after his neighbors had
cleaned up their orchards, and the
Commissioners had to have it done, but
the orchardist paid the bill without al
lowing il to become a county charge
The frost during the last of March
killed most of the apricots, with the
exception Of Moorpark, which yielded