The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1903-01-21

have any suspicion that you were not
successful in killing all OF the scale in
your orchard at your early spring spray
ing, that you do not wait until the scale
makes its appearance on your apples,
but go ahead and spray, particularly if
you have a large orchard. If YOU
should wait until you saw that the scale
had made its first appearance on the
apple, and you have very large or
chard, before you could get all over the
orchard the shell or scale would form so
thick that the formula that l have re-
commended would be hardly sufficient
to kill thoroughly or sufficiently well.
So be careful to watch closely and when
you find that the scale is Matching then
commence to spray with the formula
that | have given above, and it Will
surely kill and no doubt about it.
Now we will talk about the codlng
moth and how to successfully combat
with the moth. Watch carefully and
when You discover that the codlng
moth has began to fly in the spring,
then commence to spray. Just at the
particular time to commence to spray
for the codllng moth cannot be given
Owing to the difference that there is in
the season IN the different localities in
the Yakima valley, and as to that matter
IN the different localities in the north
west where fruit is grown and partcu-
larly the apple and pear, as they are the
only kind of fruit that the codling moth
work on. So make yourself acquainted
with the codling moth and its nature,
whenit begins cooperate in your locality;
spray accordingly with paris green and
lime as the regular formula prescribed
by the State Horticulturist. Which is
paris green y pound, lime 6 pounds to
90 gallons of water, and be sure and
commence to spray as soon as the moth
commence to operate. And be sure to
spray every u days until two weeks be-
fore you gather your apples to ship or to
put in your cellar. The reason that |
say spray every - days is because the
poison will only hold good - days under
the most favorable conditions of the
weather. Whereas if it should rain
sufficient to wash the emulsion off before
the II DAYS are up spray at once after
the rain is over. BY doing as l have
suggested you will have apples and pears
clear of scale and codling moth
Last summer sprayed for the cooling
moth every two weeks until the 10th
day Of August, and up until that time
there was MOI to be seen the least sign
OF the codling moth either in the apple
or pear. SO on the 10th day of August
of last year quit spraying for the moth,
and from that time until gathered my
apples lost 80 per cent of my apples
from being bored by the codling moth.
So you see that after quit spraying the
moths kept on with their work, and got
one-half of my fruit after the 10th day
of August. This year | sprayed every
II days until the 18th day of October,
and the result was that | had 99L per
cent that were free from the ravages of
the codling moth, as my neighbors will
bear me witness. Whereas, the or
chardists around me neglected TO spray
for the moth, and the result was that
they did not have scarcely any apples
that were free from the ravages of the
moth. So now, my brother orchardists,
l will leave the subject with you, and if