The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-09-04

The San Jose scale is more cosmo-
pOlitan, attacking almost anything in
the way of fruit trees, as we'll as the
Linden, the elm, willow, alder, orange
and other trees and shrubs. II in
tests the limbs of the trees. or the
fruit itself, living throughout the win
ter under protection of scale which
ic built over the hole in the twig
where the insect burrows into the
bark or the fruit The young are
produced under cover of the scale.
and soon are able to form a home of
| their own. The insect spoils the
| fruit by unsightly little spots, under
each of which will be found a living
insect. Tie fruit may be distorted
and knotty, if it is attacked early in
the season. The greatest danger,
however. is in the killing of the grow
ing twigs. the countless insects suck
ing all the sap. the life blood of the
tree, or leaving it with too sickly
growth for the development of fruit.
This is one of the pests that is most
widely spread, and most feared be-
cause of the wide range of tree
growth it attacks. The Montana in
spaction is especially rigid on all fruits
that are liable to its attack and much
OF the condemnation is made for this
| one pest.
Thanks to the wise laws passed by
the legislators of the state, and the
great care taken by the orchardists
themselves, Montana fruit is free from
the visitatiOns of all manner of nOx-
fous insects, and it is the effort of the
board of inspectors to keep it SO. Es-
pecially in western Montana, apple
growing is getting to be really great
industry, well worth the protecting.
Montana fruit is perhaps the best in
the whole world in this respect Ger
tainly none could be better. Montana
apples are exported to Canada, crab
apples from this state bringing as
high as So a crate, when others are
not wanted at all. It is very much
the same in other varieties. Compar-
atlvely few, however, are shipped
away, the home market being too in
sstent on having homegrown apples
in preference to others, even at high
err prices.
Swan Johnson Of Missoula, manager
oil the Montana Fruitgrowers union,
who has full charge of all the packing
and marketing of the product Of the
association, comprising nearly all the
growers of the Bitter Root, Missoula
and Plains valleys, is authority for
the statement that this years crop
will fall far short of the average in
quantity, but as compensation the
quality is about the best ever known.
ut is a pleasure to see the Montana
apples this year. he said. ''They are
heavy and solid as. fruit can be; they
will be larger and weigh more to the
crate than they do of other years. In
this the grower will be able to sell
almost as many pounds of fruit, and
far finer quality, are satisfactory to
all concerned.
Our union will ship twenty or more
cars Of apples to the Butte market
this year, besides two cars of pears,
one or two Of plums, and few other
varieties. They are all light in yield. |
but of good quality.
The best varieties of early apples |
are the yellow transparent, the Red |
Astrachan and the Duchess. The
first is a fine fruit, but a red apple |
always sells best. The Duchess, a
beautifully striped red and white |
fruit, Is perhaps the best seller.
Grab apples do well in Montana,
there are no finer grown anywhere in
the world. They are harder than |
the other apples and have wider |
range, but have not been planted so |
freely here as they should be.
Montana has been kept remarkably |
free from insect pests; indeed, one |
may say that there is not trace OF |
any of the pests that ravage the or
chards of other states. Oregon or
chardS have hnnn uuito hod1v oAfoot |
ed."
The efforts of the inspection bureau
Of the state horticultural board will
not be relaxed the least, as long as
fruit is being shipped into the state
The fruit growing industry is too
large. too promising, to allow of any
thing coming in to destroy it without
a strenuous effort to save the growing
: L. L. 49,;