The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-24

and from that time until 1898 sent out in
tested stock. These nurseries, having been
located in South Georgia, 1t is no wonder
the scale has become so thoroughly es-
tablished in this section. For eight years
its artificial dissemination through nursery
stock has been going on, constantly es-
tablishing infested areas, and the natural
spread from these centers have been slow
~ but inevitably extending its limits
When l first took charge of this work
announced that this insect was here to
stay as a permanent pest, forming an i'm
portant factor in the art of fruit growing
in the infested areas of the state, and 1
repeat that all hope for total eradication
must be given up and our attention given
to holding it in check, restricting it, so
far al possible to its present limits. The
system of nursery inspection and fumiga-
ton now being generally adopted all over
the country will greatly decrease the aFti-
fetal dissemination of the scale and ac-
tivity of local work in the application of
remedies in infested areas will lessen its
natural spread.
The fall nursery inspection of 1898, my
first visit to the nurseries proved the San
Jose scale to be established on nine diff
ferent nursery premises. If these infest-
ed nurseries had not been detected and
the stock scattered broad cast over the
state, ii surely would have been, the
cases of scale would have multiplied by
the hundreds. Such dissemination is
checked by nursery inspection and fumi-
cation. But despite our most heroic meas
ures we must face the fact that the nat
ural spread of this insect will inevitably
continue. What shall we do then? you
may ask Fight it as you fight the weeds
and grass that would grow in your orch
ards, if it were not for the plow. You
don't eXterminate the weeds. You only
hold them in check When you cease to
cultivate the weeds begin to grow. The
same is true of the scale. When you
cease to treat they begin to multiply and
destroy. 1t is a continual fight the cost
of which the intelligent and progressive
man will count on in the estimate of his
yearly general expenses of his orchard
and he will continue to grow fruit with
the assurance that the failure of his
neighbor TO incur the same expense will
increase his (the former's) profits.
Some Remedies for II.
Since continued experiments have
brought TO light efficient remedies, the San
+ Jose scale is not necessarily a fatal pest
in the orchards of progressive men l
could cite dozens of examples where men
in our own state are successfully treating
their orchards that We're once badly in
tested, In the summer of 1898 1 visited
an orchard of $1,000 trees. owned by Can't
H. II. Tiff Of Triton. Ga, which was so
badly infested with scale that 1t seemed 10
Mr. Tiff was about ready TO abandon it.
Acting upon my recommends ton, he treat
ed during the winter of lS9S-1S99. l visited
the orchard again in the summer of 1899
and l think it's condition will bear me out
in saying that / have hardly seen more
beautiful orchard in Georgia BY fall the
trees were quite well covered with scale
again. but the treatment to which they are
being subjected again this winter will be
sufficient to hold the pest in check another
year. Another instance is a man in South
Georgia who controls an orchard of 30
900 trees, which is infested. He is now
spraying this orchard and al ehe same
time is planting out an additional 80 900
trees Col John NJ. Stubs of Dublin will
testify that be is successfully controlling
the scale In his orchard, but at the same
lime he viii admit that he does not dare
to stop his annual spraying no more than
he would stop cultivating. Orchards IN
the same neighborhood that have not re-
ceived the same treatment that he has
given his. now lay in ruin. am empha-
sizing these facts in answer TO urgent re-
guests q might say, demands), that have
recently been pressed upon me as state
entomologist TO eradicate this scale from
certain sections of the state and even
from the entire state. ] have been asked
to do the impossible. and it should be I'M