Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-07-12
Inspector SorensOn Tells What il
is and How to Get
Rid Of II.
REMOVE APHIS BY SPRAYING.
Formula Differs According to the Pest
Dealt With-Some Timely
Suggestions.

Salt Lake City, July livery often
the inquiry Is made; what Is the
white woolly stun on my apple trees,
and what shall do for it?"
This white woolly stun IL the woolly
aphis, II you wish TO investigate blow
the white wool of these spots and you
Will see mass OF Insects resembling
bed-bugs In general appearance, espec-
tally II seen under a magnifying glass.
The remedy is to spray, wash, or
scrub these spots with a strong kero-
sene emulsion, which can be made for
this purpose, by dssolying half pound
Of hard soap, (not rosin soap whale
oil, or CASTLE soap or good home made
soap preferred, In gallon Of boiling
water. Then add two gallons Of kero-
sene Stir violently or better stllD
pump It back and forth with a spray
pump until II appears like a soft soap.
or whipped cream. Now add ten gal
Ions Of water 70 every gallon Of coal oil
for the woolly aphis or for the elm
scale. For red spider on pear or cherry
trees use Is gallons Of water to every
gallon OF coal oil
TREATMENT FOR PEACH APHIS,
For peach aphls or lice use 20 gall
Ions Of water for every gallon Of coal
oil.
The difference In strength OF mixture
Is necessary becaue OF the difference i'm
the tenderness Of trees, and also on ac-
count Of the toughness or tenacity Of
life Of the different insects.
The stronger emulsion used for the
woody aphis or elm scale would kill a
peach tree, and the weaker emulsion
used for the peach lice would not kill
the woody aphis or elm scale.
Therefore IL is very necessary to
measure. your materials and make the
strength OF the emulsion according to
that for which 1t is to be used
THE HARM THEY DO.
Some people inquire: "Why not
leave the Insects alone? What harm
do they DOR the insects suck the SAP
Of the trees and bushes that should 20
to make fruit, and turn this sap into
insects instead OF fruit. thereby weak
ening the trees, causing them 10 pro-
duce much less and inferior fruit Be
sides preventing the trees from devel-
oping fruit buds for next years crop
Of fruit, and thus causing us an injury
that nothing can repair, II we neglect
to spray now.
NOW IS THE TINE.
Now has the time arrived when we
should spray apple and pear trees for
the second crop Of worms, which is be-
ginning TO come. For this purpose the
No. !, or white arsenical spray should
be used This Is made best as follows:
Fake one pound Of white arsenic, four
pounds OF common washing soda, two
gallons OF water; boil all together about
10 minutes, or until dissolved slack In
another vessel eight pounds OF good
lime, thin II down and strain your lime
water through a gunny sack into your
spray barrel, add 20 gallons OF water
and then your white arsenic and soda
solution
Use a good spraying outfit with good
Cyclone or Nermoral or any other noz-
2le that VIII throw o spray like mist.
the finer the better as We want to put
a covering or poison mist on all apples
and leaves.
Whereas In the first two spring
sprayings a coarse nozzle and a heavy
Paris Green spray should be used in or
der to strike the cup or calyx Of the APP
Pile, and put poison into the calyx that
will sink TO the bottom of the calyx cup