The herald., 1898-11-24
The CARE OF ORCHARDS
DISCUSSION BY THE FARMERs'
CLUB MEETING
Spraying, Fumigation and Fertiliza-
tion-Thanksgiving Services.
Notes and Personals

PASADENA, Nov. 23.-The Farmers
club held an interesting meeting this after
noon, in which fumigation, spraying and
fertilizing were discussed President Day
was In the chair, and a fair attendance
present. DR.. Woodbridge gave talk on
! FERTILIZERS" the pith of which was fer
| ttlize everything thoroughly. ]. M. Clark
was introduced as a man Of thirteen years.
successful experience and read paper on
Spraying" In which he said an orchard.
could be cleaned by spraying II good mate
rails were thoroughly applied at the proper
time. The resin wash is the best and
cheapest wash, and will kill the SCALE All
are good, but each and all must be an.
piled at the proper time. The time varies
according to the heat, but is usually the
latter part Of September and October. The
weather should be cloudy or foggy nights
mot hot. The best results are from q
strong, heavy spray, with good nozzle and
| good man behind 1t. The fog" theory Is
foggy. Thoroughness Is the essential Of
success. This, of course, applies to the
black SCALE. The red can be killed by spray
ing, but 1t Is more difficult. Tho virtue Of
fumigation is its thoroughness. The resin
wash costs y of a cent per gallon, and can
be put on the tree for ~ cents per gallon.
DIR. j. H. Dunn of Pomona spoke on "Fu-
miga ation," which he said will kill the scale
and benefit the tree. Spring is the best
season, but the time varies with the To-
cality. The proof of It's efficacy Is that
ten years ago he fumigated 1900 trees and
last year $4,000. The cost for three-year-
old trees Is about six cents six years old
eight cents. ten year olds fifteen cents,
Washing smutty oranges costs % cents per
box and fumigating averages four cents
and Is incomparabiy better. Fumigated
orchards at Duarte have paid over 100 per
cent.
DR.. Woodbridge said the red scale began
propagating at forty-five days old and con-
tinued at the rate Of four 10 six live young
per minute.
Messrs. Day Hubbard. Stone, Wood
bridge and Tebbetts were appointed dele
gates to the convention of Farmers clubs
to be held at Redlands January to 4, 1Ss9
-Four new members were admitted and
the constitution and bylaws ordered print
ed and mailed to members. Messrs Hub
bard. Melick and Rust were appointed a
committee on legislation governing the
sale OF fertilizers. to report at next meet
ing The next meeting will be held Thurs
day. December 20. and will discuss What
Legislation Do Farmers of This Section
Want"' Representative Melick will have
paper on where Are We At?" which he
wants answered by the farmers.
THANKSGIVING
There Will be a special union Thanksgiv-
Ing service In the NJ. Il. tabernacle tomor-
ioWs bc6iuIltlS dt lU.oU. Inc sermon WiIt
be preached by Rev. r. l.. Bruce, pastor of
Lincoln avenue NJ. E. church.
The Episcopal church of Euclid avenue
will render a program at 10 40 a. m.
The Catholics will assemble at a. m. for
Thanksgiving mass.
NOTES
Tho seventh and eighth grades of the
Wilson school held Thanksgiving exercises
today. The high school also had some
speaking and singing. The music was un-
der the direction of Mrs. Sweezey. The fe-
male quartet rendered several selections.
The Pasadena Athletic association leaves
on the 7:l0 train for Santa Barbara to play
the great Thanksgiving football game.
A French vegetable man In the Hotel
Green caught his feet in the kitchen ele-
vator this morning and had them seriously
mashed He sat with them over the edge.
and had not the elevator been running with
low steam, they must have both been taken
off,
Mrs. w. I. Grimes and her two children
returned from a six months visit in the
east tonight. She has been with her mother
at Rockville, Nd, near the city of Wash
ington. Mr.. Grimes met his family in Los
Angeles tonight.
The Current Events class of the Shake
speare club meets on Friday at 10 q, M.
Instead of p. m. as announced in an
evening paper, by mistake.
Mrs Mary 8. Fry of Pasadena will erect
two-story Broom frame residence on
Marengo. just north Of Temple street.
Thursday. November 24th, THANKSGIVING
day. the postoffice will be open in all de-
partments from a. m. to IL m. Carriers
will make their regular morning delivery.
and early morning collection from street
letter boxes.
The reception of Rev. Frank Woods at
the Baptist church last night was an elab-
crate affair.