The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-10-02

Third-Live scale are found on the OUT
side as well as inside Of trees. and In open
taps AS well as those with dense foliage.
Fourth-Much mere poison should be
Used, ana longer exposure madu than ha3
been usual One man, who used county
tents and did splendid work, said glee-
fully: Il scorched some Of the tender
leaves" A few scorched leaves is less OBJ
ject.onable than unframed scales, that
will go on sucking the sap and life front
the trees.
Fifth-Gassing should commence in Sep
TENDER, and should be continued until tho
last Of November, possibly later, in case IL
is impossible to fumigate earlier. Septem-
Der and October are the best months Ons
Of the worst orchards 1 examined was fu-
m.gated late in December.
Sixth-Trees hard by should not be
passed over. Three orchards treated BY
the county showed good work, but olive
trees beside one, nursery stock in an
Other, and young trees In third were I'M
perfectly gassed. Or wholly untreated, and
are now we'll Stocked with scales, and q;
menace 10 the whole orchard. In case Of
the elves, the foreman said it was hard to
cover them because Of alternating eucal-
yp.us. The foreman should have more
grit.
Seventh--An with afflicted orchards
should fumigate. Il. 1t will secures better
fruit, and not only thicken the pocketbook.
but secure to the region a reputation for
excelle: frrlt, thus doing double SER
vice. a. 1t will increase the v.sor Of the
| orchard, and ~ swell the peck siboox IN
coming years. 90 1t will remove stand.
ing menace to the whole neighborho:e. :
saw many clean orchards, with dirty, un-
treated orchards adjacent. One man said
1t would not pay, as his trees were not very
bad. Another that he knew 1t would do
his trees and fruit good-great good-but
he just could not afford it. The first man
should think of his neghbors, the second
-annot afford not to do it.
What Plan the Best
| Where an orchard is large enough, like
the Seth Richards, SO that the owner
can afford to run his own tents, then the
| first method Is without doubt the best.
Enough poison will be used, exposure VIII
bc prolonged, tents will be kept in thorough
repair, ana very important tents will be at
! the orchardist's disposal at the proper
time, the fall months. The only impede
| mert is possible lack Of Judgment In the
foreman. who would not rightly estimat to
the amount Of poison to the tree Yet here
there would likely be Intelligence equal to
the requiI cment,i In case Of smaller t'e-
longirgs Il club or neighborhood should
own the tents and secure very thorough.
careful, Intelligent one Of their number to
oversee the work, This Is preferable to
county ownership, as the tents would be
likely to be more carefully handled, would
be kept in better repair, and could be had
at the proper season.
| The county system as carried on by San
Bernard.no county has much to recon-
mend IL, and If politics would keep her
hands eft and supervisors were always
men ct brains and enterprise the system
would surely have great merit. But poll
| tics often removes man as soon as he
| knows his business, and often the COM
miss!oners SO dread this possibility Of re-
moval that they are looking to their po-
litical pull when they should be Saving
chronological wood" The horticultural
commission system has doubtless done
much good for Southern California but -
Is very expensive, and, emasculated az IL
often is by political intrigue. may not its
work soon pass into the hands Of the or
| chardist? Through club and institute
may not each community be able to do its
own inspection equally we'll, and save q
vast sum now lad out, often to teach
newly appointed commissioners to do their
work, only to be removed as they become
efficient in the service? This ID only .
suggestion which am led to make afte.
hearing from our most intelligent orchards
lists all over Southern California. be-
lieve the time will come when each COM
munity will own it's own tents. and each
man supervise his own fumigat.on.