The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-01-18
BUG COMMITTEE TO MEET.
COMMISSIONER STEVENS CALLS A
MEETING OF ENTOMOLOGISTS.
/ 1000, 900 Peach Trees Are Infected.
One Orchard of so, 900 Condemn
ed and Destroyed.

One Orchard of so, 900 Condemn
ed and Destroyed.
A meeting of the State Board of En-.
tomology, created under act of the legis.
lature at its last session, will be held al
Macon today, Jan. Is. Commissioner
of Agriculture Stevens, who is at the
head of the board, called the meeting.
The other members of the board are j.
Pope Brown, president of the State Az.
ricultural Society, and P. J. Beckmans.
president of the State Horticultural So
ciety. W. NJ. Scott, the state entomol-
ogist, will be present at the meeting, and
also any fruit growers aud nurserymen
in g state who feel sufficient interest
10 the fruit industry to attend.
The deadly San jose sale, wuch has
devastated the fruit trees in Georgia.
will be discussed and a systematic plan
adopted to eradicate it.
The Immediate object Of the meeting
is to formulate rules of procedure under
the new law which arms the state en-
tomologist with power to condemn
orchards.
Vast Interests Threatened.
Few people not directly interested in
fruit growing realize the magnitude of
this interest in Georgia and fewer still
realize that this vast property, worth
millions of dollars, is in danger of
being destroyed by a little insect known
as the San Jose scale. A million trees
are infected and nearly 100000 have
been destroyed
The number of peachtrees in this state
will reach many millions. There are
over fifty nurseries, and the state ento>
mologist esti mates their annual sales at
100000 trees. One of these nurseries
with $50 900 to 100000 young trees. has
been wiped out of existence by the San
Jose scale and 123 orchards are infected.
Thousands of Trees Destroyed.
The state entomologist's work of Grad
icating the San Jose scale from the or
chards or Georgia is already far adj,
vanced, and nearly 100000 infected trees
have been condemned and DESTROYED.
One whole nursery, which has been scat
tering the infection over Georgia. has
been uprooted and wiped off the ground
ii covered.
Large as these figures may seem, the
number Of infected trees which were
spared aud are being saved by treatment
Is much larger. Mr.. Scott, the ent0mOl.
ogist OF Georgia, has on his list 123 dif>
teren! Injected orchards, aud esvlma .es
the number Of infected trees at a million,
Begun Last Fall.
The york OF demolition in infected or.
chards which were past saving vas be-
gun early last fall. One of the infected
orchards containing 80 ,0C0 trees Just old
enough to bear would have ueen a prop
erty of great value had it not been at
tackled by the San Jose scale. When
Mr.. Scott inspected the trees they were
past hope, and he ordered them de-
stroyed.
The infection in this orchard was
traced to the Cherokee nursery at Way>
cross, and it was soon found that this
nursery had scattered the San Jose scale
of $4,000 fOur>year-old trees, covering
100 acres, was III ,royed, aud the infec>
ton was traced to a twenty-five acre
section planted with trees from the
Cherokee nursery at Waycross.
The entomologist ordered the destruc-
ton of that nursery and succeeded in
having his orders carried out. This in
vowed the destruction of nursery stock
Including 5000 to 2, 600 young trees.
Injection Scattered,
In number or smaller orchards in
tected trees to the number of about So
o were condemned and DESTROYED.
This left large number of partially in
fc1rcd orchards, which the entomologisC
hopes will be saved. In these about a
million trees are being treated under his
directions.
The treatment rec nnmended by M
Scott as the best is that with hydr CT
?nic acid 24s, deadly poison. The
trees are covered with tens aad
tents are filled with gas, which kills ey-
cry insect enclosed.
Ihis j. more expensive than other
methods oi treatment, and requires great
care to av id injury to the operators.
II is not SO expensive as to pr Jude
its use IN a valuable orchard, and has
been ad pied by the most enterprising
= uit growers.
The remedy next recommended by the
entomoloaist is a 25 per cent. solution of
kerosene oil with watrr,
To subGue nervous irritabihtv, neu.
l%ls'a, hys eria, ST. Wins dance, use