Rocky Ford enterprise., 1902-02-21

/ rather with tho apple worm. TOR must
admit 10 only . limited acquainte1ce
with the moth. HSseasss1o hold hlhs
SELF above me. ] snppnse he u stnce
up On hts 'eeolaH Gaze spsses ses
ysan woI.y =; speI.., i pssls IA medIsrs in
x isss Z nan ~ro.s OF him a. an
| scasaintance. In l73S Ffisch. . Ger.
ma. Wrote of him and seat out PIC
llt1roa Of him. ! saw . copy q the
I'pCctures, but did ma underrtAnd them;
| they were drawn b 0ceman.
In 1919. Tufts Of Massachusetts
vrote he believed tho worm was
caused By Q moth and not By tho cur.
calls a. had been supposed BY some;
In 1875 Thatcher stated nnding the
worm On the trunks Of trees. and save
the nrst remedy ever offered. that was
/ To scFapc tho trooo.
Rut 4 viii pass ON to writer's and
workers Of our own time: men Who
used their eyes: patieat. painstakinE.
kardWoEking mcu; mon who did mot
swallow ali tho assertions OF other
writer's. but like the Missourians. had
| to be shown -
And hero ! want to mention few
whom tho fruit growers OF Colorado
and the United States owe debt To
that can never b paid.
One h eoae-Niley. A monument
should DO raised ID hiA memory BY the
hOstjcalturists: he was oue of the BEST
workers the country ever knew.
Next -conss oar own Professor
QiI1gktA. yho A4Sqae at tho head: then
CID a NebfaSEn, Hiingesland Of New
York. Woodwosth q ChllfoeniA. Lood.
man. Hon. T. l. Smith Of Oregon. J. 9.
F. .CclhuFa Of Hotehkiss and others.
y MoW5 my fr1U Unda. n. you have read
and dlgoafsa what iAe above have
saio: yca Do not nd4d e paper from the
writer, v a-HF.sr- - =
shar prssums,ahat only q few Of
yon are acquainted Hith this apple
worm and tell pasS Soss~has know o.
where u he now. sHe 10 In every
storeroom In tho United Staics whore
apples arc stored: he 10 under the
roagh bark on tha apple trces. or nm.
der the bands II lsft on yet tas they
caterpillar in tho forks, of trees. IN the
ground at the rods d. trees. In the
cracks os. apnle barrels. under. the
kooSA ~ bdGeo. n old sacks. old hay.
weeds: undeS chilA bosrda. IN faG1 he
isl eood many. j. April be viii be-
GIN TO change to Q pups. In NAY 70
Q moth. and aboat ,1cn days qftef1
blossoms fall thiSSmcAh wills61Gzn TO-
lay eggs. mot In 'ttB dvaix-eEs sba0aaom
end. as Pc have Easn 1old. but on, the
apVle. On the upper side q the leaf.
ioa the stem: In fect ny old place on
tho apple tree 'conv vknsknt to V40 aDSle:
In from are to eight days tne, eggs
hatch. Tho WORN. 70 very small. leas
- L.
but lively and hungry. Hc starts out
10 and asplace to live. Seventy ave to
eighty per cent. @, into the blossom
cnd of the apple. while twenty Per
cqnk start In on .GAe aide where two
APPLES touch, or ~ the stem end;
or where q Leaf t11ches. Those that
70 In at the cayllx feed there Tor .,
abort time. while the others start at,
soncA to 1hq core. Z
F6e4A worms eat their way to the
core oe the apple and vsR4llya eat
most OF the seeds. After growing to
full. sjxe thsy leave the apple and look
for 4 good place to hide under the
psrt OF bands. II aSe teanae,cAtch
,pppatc and change TO . moth In
twelve to ffteentdays'and begin again
to lay eggs: these Ggain hatch. These
tho second brood-act much as the
nrst. except as the apples are older
and seed harder. they do not nearly
30 many 70 to the core. but burroW
around the caylix or under the skin.
making ugly spots. where the fruit
soon begins to rot. I cannot say II
there are more than two broods. but
believe there are two and part OF three
at Rocky Ford.
In the winter of, 1899 our horticul.
tural society called on me to prepare
. paper on spraying. was surprised
anything on the subject. SO I begged
OF. and p. X. Blinn got up d paper.
using Cards bulletin in connection.
From this got some ideas and plenty
to think about; in fact. was convinced
We could tight the apple worm by
spraying profitably.
The request was then made for
Crowley to tell all about spraying: the
kind Of pump and mixtures. Well, I
asked the society to hold the March
meeting at my orchard and advertised
and asked each person in our county
to bring in his spray pump and noz-
zles. In the meantime I wrote p. C..
Lewis OF Catskill. New York. the Dem.
ing Company. Salem. Ohio. and others.
also ordered three pumps OF each
and from Deming I ordered a lot Of
nozzles. forks, 'splices. washers; in
fact. was in shape to fit any nozzle to
any pump. It cost about $50 SO far.
When the time came 1 had barrels OF
lime Stacked water all ready, pumps
rugged. team and two men to wait on
the crowd. Seventy-nve came to the
meeting. When we got the pumps all
In we had fourteen. about nine differ
ent makes. from the Wellhorse power
down to the bucket pump. We ap-
pointed a committee to take each
pump and test 1t; also to test noz-
zles. the agitators, light or hard to
| pump; in fact 1t took all day. That
| was the best days WORK we ever put
in. I believe we learned more about
nozSles and pumps than could have