The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-13
STATES Fruit PROSPECTS.
WESTERN WASHINGTON GROWERS
ARE UNUSUALLY ACTIVE.
Orchard Pests-CIarke County's
Fine Outlook for Prunes-Late
Cold Weather Fails to Injure

Horticultural Commissioner Baker yestef
day gave out the following statement con-
corning the fruit prospects OF the stat:
The unusual forwardness of the season
seems TO have overtaken the fruit-growers
Of Western Washington in a greater de-
gree than these OF the eastern part OF the
state.
Yakima county leads OF in making tua
efforts for the extermniation OF orchard
pests. by placing three active men In the
field to enforce the state laws the county
Inspector Orlando Beck and two deputies
who seem to be doing excellent work This
rare exhibition OF good sense on the parf
OF the county commissioners is TO be high
ly commended, as work of this character
to be effective must be done at the proper
time, or L is hardly worth doing at all
Stevens county is progressing also, the
county inspector, appointed last fail VIII
liam II. Oakes, OF Myers Falls makins The
first general inspection the county has ever
had The fruit pests Of this section ere
not OF highly dangerous character
On this side of the mountains, Clarke
county leads off in point OF activity. There
are all indications Of a heavy prune crop.
The county inspector, Gus Hennrickson. en-
forces the spraying Of orchards and II not
properly done refuses to accept the work
requiring II to he done again in a suitable
manner The principal pests are San lose
are in earnest this spring In lighting II 4,
to be hoped they will attack codiing moth
with the same vigor later on.
There are 5000 acres in bearing prtne
orchards in this county that Is exceeding
five years Of age: with seventy evaporatsng
outfits Of n combined capacity OF 200 tons
OF green fruit a day. full crop OF prunes
In this section will mean 800 carloads OF
the dried product this fall making Il the
et INN "a Mt % q ~
ifornia, and rapidly Increasing in import
ance. The variety grown is almost wholly
Italian. which Is a larger prune than that
ordinarily grown in California (Which is
called the petite or French. prune) and
Of higher commercial value.
The inspectors of Cowlitz and Pacific
counties have also been active sending In
inspection reports from several hundred
orchards The disorder most serious In
these sections Is black spot or canker of
the apple tree, which prevails throughout
Western Washington As II is OF a fungoid
character the only safety TO the trees IN
this section Is the application OF the cop
per solution recommended by this depart
ment. such the Bordeaux mixture and
ammoniacal copper carbonate. / do net
know of any old apple orchards in West
ern Washington unaffected with this
scourge. except where the copper solutions
have been used. and can cite severai or.
chards 81 thirteen 10 fifteen years OF age
showing no trace Of II where these solr-
lions have been used systematically from
the time OF Nrst planting.
Prof A. ". Cordiey-, OF the Oregon auri-
cultural experiment station. makes t1e
point that the most effective time for max
ing this application is before the fall rains
set in. (See bulletin No 60 Corvallis. orr
Az these often occur before the fruit Is
gathered. Il would be better TO use thu
ammoniacal copper carbonate. as II would
occasion considerable labor to clean fruit
SPRAYED with Bordeaux mixture. Tho
chards noted as exempt from black spot
have only had the copper solutions applied
during SUR rner and carly spring, though
greater effectiveness might lie attained by
the autumn spraying recommended. No
doubt soil and situation also influence this
disorder in n great degree.
The recent cold has affected none Of the
important fruit districts inturiously. all
damage Vet reported Ia from remote sec
tions 20 which the injury is not OF a serious
character