Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-25
FIGHT AGAINST
SAN JOSE SCALE.
Lime, Salt and Sulphur Spray
Should be Applied at
Once.
Which Menace the Orchard Interests
OF the State Recommendation
OF State Board.

For use upon decIduous fruit and or
namentai trees infested with San Jose,
elm tree or other scale insects, for twig
borers, apides, and other Injurious IN
sects. for shot hole fungus, and as "a
preventive OF curl leaf on peach trees
the state board Of horticulture recon-
mends the application, before the buds
swell In the spring OF the lime salt ana
sulphur spray. This most useful or
chard dlsinfectant Is made as follows
Unslacked lime, 10 pounds sulphur,
20 pounds; salt, Is pounds water TO
make so gallons.
Place 10 pounds OF lime and 20 pounds
OF sulphur In boiler with SUI
hclent water to slack After thor
oughly Stacking, add more water and
boil over n brisk fire for not less than
one hour and half, or until the SUI
phur Is thoroughly dissolved. When
this takes place the mixture VIII De OF
an amber color. Next pace In cask
80 pounds OF unslacked lime. pouring
over II enough hot water 10 thorough,
~ slack It. and while It is boiling add
the IS pounds OF salt. When this 10
dissolved. add the lime and sulphur IN
the boiler and cook for half an hour
longer when the necessary amount OF
water TO make the so gallons should pc
added, Strain into the spray barrel ana
apply while fresh and warm with
good strong spray pump
For small areas, dover or
rose gardens, simpler method
OF making this spray Is given below bul
Ii not recommended as fully effective
as the above;
Into q 4O-gallon barrel place ~ POUNDS
best fresh unsacked lime. Into announcer
yessel-a wash tub will do-put IN ~
pounds OF flowers OF sulphur, ana SLOWLY
pour over the sulphur one gallon or
more OF boiling water, stirring con-
stantly until A perfect sulphur paste IL
formed This accomplished, pour SIX
gallons OF boiling water over the lime
| in the barrel and Immediately add the
| sulphur paste. Cover the barrel WIN
an old blanket and let II cook with us
| own heat for thirty minutes, stirring
| occasionally with a garden hoe ana
adding hot water as needed to Keep the
| lime from settling and prevent its burn
| Ing. when thoroughly combined add
| enough hot water TO make 30 gallons,
| nut i'm IA pounds OF salt and stir TN
| this Is dissolved. Strain into the spray
barrel and apply to dormant trees WINE
| fresh and quite warm
The San Jose scale Is so hrmly estap'
! llshed in two OF the counties or the
| state, Weber and Utah, especially III tne
former that it's determination is now
| out of the question. The scale must
therefore be recognized as permanent
factor to be regularly dealt with as
are other insect evils or the fungus
diseases Of plants,
| Nv the greatest care in the introduce
ton OF nursery stock the San Jose scale
may be kept out OF districts now free
| from II for years, perhaps, ana the or
| chardIst is warranted in adopting eve
nv precaution possible TO avoid the In
PRODUCTION OF this scale Planters
should Insist on having the nursery
stock he buys thoroughly fumlgated'
with hydrocyanic gas, as the reBula-
lions Of the horticultural board require,
before sent out from the nursery II
not assured OF this work having been
done, the purchaser may treat ms trees
with the following formula:
Whale OIL Soap for Nursery Stock.
in each gallon Of water dissolve by
boiling three fourths OF a pound OF
whole oil soap (made with potash lye.l
Keen the solution at a temperature OF
90 70 100 degrees Dip the entire tree
in the solution and allow II to remain
at least two minutes
The soap treatment Is perfectly safe
for all kinds OF trees and Is very eff
fectlve against the scale
While one Is undoubtedly justified In
holding that the San Jose scale Is to be
a permanency, II by no means follows
that the profitable growth OF deciduous
fruits Is seriously menaced on this ac-
count. The experience In California
covering many years, has abundantly
demonstrated that this scale insect can
be controlled, and the more recent ex-
perience IN the east points lndubltably
to the same conclusion, In other words
by proper repressiye and remedial
treatment. the value OF which has been
demonstrated by much practical expert
ence, an orchard can be protected from
serious injury and kept in good pay
ing condition so far as Influenced by the
San Jose scale
In view OF the above, II Ia certainly
very unwse and Wasteful to dig up and
burn large portion OF an orchard be-
cause Il Is infested with this scale in
sect, az the orchard Is In good condition
otherwise) especially since the replanted
stock even II clean when purchased
would, with little doubt, be In the same
condition Of infestation In a very short
time.
The lime, salt and sulphur spray
when properly prepared and applied Is
the standard remedy all over the wes
and is largely so In the east, for keep
ing the scale under complete control
and Is confidently recommended {
Utah orchadists.
JOSEPH II. PARRY,
Secretary state Board Of Horticulture