The record-union., 1897-11-19
JUDGE VAN DYKES DECISION.
HORTICULTURAL COMMISSION.
ERS Will APPEAL FROM IT.
They Discuss Remedies for Insect
Pests and Find Oregon Is In
tested With Goblin Moth.

3eSCS ana k1no OreSOn xS x0s
tested With Goblin Moth.
At the meeting of the County Horti-
cultural Commissioners yesterday IL. r.
Stabier Of Sutter said that while he
had expected some such decision in re-
Sard to Commissioners powers as Judge
van Dyke had given, he regretted it, as
the Commissioners had done good work
under the law.
E. HI. Rust announced that he had de-
ceived telegram from the District At
torney of Los Angeles County, saying
that the case would be appealed to the
Supreme Court, and the meeting decided
that the County Commissioners should
continue their work pending the appeal.
Quarantine Inspector Craw spoke of
Paris green as the surest remedy for the
Goblin moth, and he advised spraying
two or three times during the season.
There had been much complaint over
the strictneSs of the Inspectors in the
Northwest, who sent back apples in
fected with Goblin moth and the impress
sion had gone forth that the Northwest
was free from the moth. while Cali
fornia is infested. This, Mr.. Craw said,
is not so, as the orchards in the North
west, especially in Oregon, are overrun
with moth, but the inspectors wish to
protect the home product and do not in
tend to cast discredit on California.
George Roeding of Fresno told how
he had visited the Oregon orchards and
found the ground covered with apples
from the Goblin moth. He learned that
the people We're making no effort to
eradicate it, thinking it would be too
expensive.
r Ehrhorn of San Jose gave de-
scription of the peach moth, as far as
he knew its history, although it was
impossible to DO it fully, without giving
it his entire attention. He had found
that there were three broods, however.
The kerosene emulsion is generally ef-
fective in destroying it, and SO is Paris
green to some extent. Lime, salt and
sulphur had been also used with some
success.
Mr.. Ehrhorn said that many of the
worms escape from the spraying with
Paris green. One trouble is that the
man who keeps chemicals will sell any
thing he happens to have, no matter II
it is mixed with brick dust or gypsum.
In fact, they do not like to sell the
pure stuff. He had succeeded of late,
however, in inducing the dealer to ask
for what it is wanted and in giving the
fruit-groWer the pure article. The
trouble with many fruit-growers is that
they will buy an article because it is
cheap, rather than buy the best He
should certainly recommend the band
system in connection with the Paris
green. The pure article of Paris green
can easily be known by putting it in a
glass and holding it to the light If it
has white streaks running through it
it contains gypsum. If there are foreign
substances in it, it will not be trans
parent.
Mr.. French of Florin sent in some
grapes that were shriveled on the vine,
with a request that they be examined
to ascertain what the pest was.
Several members stated that
it was a small beetle which eats the bark
from the stem SO that the sap cannot de-
velop the grape.
Mr.. Ehrhorn stated in regard to the
peach moth that it burrows into the
young twigs. He had met gentleman
from Washington who was investigat-
ing the cotton worm in Texas for the
Government and who took great inter-
est in the subject, and he had since sent
twigs to Washington for examination.
The results would probably be pub
lished soon in Bulletin No. 10, which he
advised the growers to get when it
comes out. He had attained good re-
suits with the kerosene emulsion. He
did not think the solution of sulphur
lime, ETC., SO good.
Mr.. Boag had found a solution of
Paris green killed all the worms last
year and he should try it next year.
Mr.. Craw said that he would not ad-
wise the use of Paris green for stone
fruit, as it is so sensitive. The solution
of lime,, salt and sulphur cures curled
leaf, as we'll as killing the twig worm,
the salt penetrating the soft bark and
killing the young worms. The best time
to use it is just before the tree starts to
grow. When the young shoot has
started an inch or two the worm has
already entered it.
In relation to pear blight, he said it is
very serious matter. but he could
throw no new light on the subject. The
Bordeaux mixture was the best he knew
Of. The best cure is to cut off the
branches
Mr.. Boag said that he did not think
there was any genuine pear blight in
this State, like they have in the East.
He had many specimens brought him,
but had not yet seen a genuine case.
From reports he received from the
East, the pear blight is decreasing
there.
In answer to a question by Mr. Rust
as to the use of bi-sulDhide of carbon
for root borers, Mr.. Ehrhorn said that
suggestion having been made, an
Eastern fruit-grower experimental
with it with great success. killing all
the borers. Some of his neighbors, at
his suggestion, tried it with good re-
suits. 1t is one of the finest remedies
he had seen for peach borers, but a
damper had been put on the remedy
because some persons had used double
the quantity that had been deemed
proper and had also poured it on the
bark of the tree instead of into the
loosened ground around the roots. He
had warned his neighbors to be careful
IN the use of the bi-sulphide, as it will
Kill plant life. Mr.. Dore used it on his
vineyard to kill the vines and thus rid
the phylloxera, kill the phyllox-
era and the vines too. The
fumes of the bi-sulphide, when an
overdose is used, kill the bark and also,
If the soil is not loosened, they will settle
around the trunk of the tree in a ring
and kill the bark all around. The al
n,ond root is most sensitive to damage
from the bi-sulohide.
Professor Childs said there is very
powerful solution of bi-sulphide, almost