Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-12-13


laturc providing for tho prevention and
determination of insect pests, shall be en-
acted into law, and If such bill becomes
u law, We recommend that some action
be taken looking toward tho extermina-
ton of the san Jose scale. 1t is the hope
Of this association that with the ncreas-
ed apple protection coming to the Yer
mont Experiment station that funds will
| he provided for further scientific inves-
tgaton. which in the end will be of much
use to all horticultursts.
PAPERS.
In the afternoon l.. II. Sheldon of Fair
Haven read a paper on Growing and
Marketing Small Fruits" in which he
demonstrated that money might be made
in Strawberries as well as in apples and
larger fruit.
animal and Bird Pests of the Farmer
and Fruit Grower" formed the subject
of paper read by A. A. Halliday of Bel
lows Falls. Mr.. Halliday owns large
cherry orchard. of about 300 trees. and
he raises n very small crop of cherries
from them. This he said was due to the
cat birds, robins and cedar wax birds
which ate the cherries before they ripened
He states that his loss during n season Is
nearly 4GVV bushels. He said it was not
possible to end their depredations on
small fruit trees without shooting the
birds. TO do this was against the
statutes and consequently he could do
noting to save his fruit. The cedar wax
| bird, he stated. was not n song bird and
| he believed anyone would be justified in
shooting 1t. He further said he had sent
the draft OF a bill to the Legislature pro-
lviding for the determination of the bird
but the bill was killed in the COM
mttec room. lie adinonished the
farmers to hang together that legsla e
ton could he secured that would protect
/ a farmer. He said there is no class that
needs protection more than the farmer
and no class that gets so little as he.
| Prof, J." r. Jones of Burlington de-
Ilivered n brief address on some Yer
mont Apple Orchard Diseases" He
spoke principally on winter killing or
scaldinG of trees. He was of the opin-
ion that spraying is essential on many
| trees.
He advised tho use OF the Bordeaux
mixture. The strength was not of SO
much consequence as the method of
using II. He said that n good mixture
could be made with three pounds of
vitrol, five pounds ot lime to 80 gallons
of water This should hc mixed proper
ly and then sprayed under heavy pres
sure. Careful planting of trees deter
mined the necessity for future spray
ing.
II. Brodie of Westmont, p. O., read
n paper on THE Selection and Care Of
Apple Trees for the North. Too much
care. he said could not be exercised in
getting proper fruit trees for this sec
ton and keeping them we'll cultivated
if fine fruit was desired.
William Stuart of Burlington had the
closing paper on the san Jose Scale in
Vermont" He said to his certain
knowledge there is but one locality in
Vermont in which tho San Jose scale
occurs. In the apple orchard owned b,
Charles Emerson at Thompson's Point
in Charlotte. ChittSnden county, the
scale has been known to have beer
present on a few trees for the pas,
seven or eight years.
That this insect pest has been present
in Vermont for a number OF years anc
despite the fact that it has been NOR,
or less vigorously combattcd both by
spraying and with insecticides and by
removal and destruction of some OF tn,
most infested trees. that it has not only
maintained itself but very appreciablS
increased is proof positive that oui
lclimato, rigorous as it may be at times
is not too severe to prevent the in.
lcrease Of this pest. It's present restric.
tion in the state, so far as known t.
one isolated locality, makes its cradica.
ton a comparatively easy proposition
| In one orchard where the scale exists /
was shown by inspection that Of u tree.
in the orchard only seven were found fre,
from the scale. out of that number 4
had Il few scattering scales sufficient [
thoroughly infest the tree next season
The remaining % We're marked as hs IN
badly infested. Briefly summed up 20 DC
cent of the trees were found badly II
tested, 80 per cent partially infested an
over "a per cent. badly infested. OF til
~ trees comprising the orchard q. we,
old trees and q were infested.
AS to the measures to he empl Dyed
its eradication there seems to ba but or
course to pursue. which Is to d. stroy a
old trees which are infested and II
worst of the younger ones. Tt ose Of Il
younger trees which are but slightly fl
= tested might be completely rid of IL
scale by thorough spraying With the lin
sulphur or -sulphur-sa solution DO
sibly attended by summer spraying wit
dilute kerosene emulsion. or whale g.
soap.
The act recently passed. by the Legisl
ture empowers the COVER nor of tho Sta
to take such steps as ma be deemed a,
visable toward tho radlcation within o,
borders of such pests as the San 10.
scale and the gypsy an brown tail mot