The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-02-15

Inv these men. Their lectures are
thought awakeners and will set the
average farmer to thinking and that
will set him to acting and so much
good will come to him.
w. p. Caldwell, Deer Harbor. Wash,
sends me a clipping from farm pa
per in which a certain kind OF spray
is recommended and wants me to tell
him what | know about it. l do not
know anything about it. The firm
sending out the advertisement refer
red to is one of the reliable houses
of the country and I would be glad
to commend the spray referred to,
but l cannot. l copy the following
statement from this advertisement:
Guaranteed to be the one efficient
remedy for the black scale, red scale,
San Jose scale, codling moth, woolly
aphis, red spider and all other insects
or fungous growth" This statement
is preposterous. Any remedy that will
be effective with the scales and aph-
ides cannot be of any use in combat
ing the cooling moth for the simple
reason that the scales and aphldes
belong to the sucking insects while
the cooling moth belongs to the Dlt-
ing insects. If anything is settled
beyond cavil it is that we must use
different remedies for these two class
es of pests. To effectually combat the
cooling moth we must plact some
poison where the young larva Will
eat it. This cannot be done with any
preparation of petroleum. Evidently
this very reputable firm has been i'm
posed upon by some designing person
who is almost as ignorant as horse
about such things.
Right here I want to drop a note of
warning to all inexperienced growers
about using decoctions or other pre-
parations sent out with the guarantee
to be effective in treating all kinds of
pests 1 believe that it is safe to say
that nienty-nine out of every hundred
of them are frauds-they are made to
sell and when the transaction is COM
pleted the dope" is sold, and so is
the man who buys it. Unless such
"dopes" have the endorsement of
some one who understands such
things, send a sample to our expert
ment station at Pullman and get the
views of our men there before it is
depended upon to control the insects,
fungi or diseases for which it is said
to be an efficient remedy. My advice
to friend Caldwell is not to depend on
this overloaded spray material for,
while it might be good for some pur-
poses, it simply cannot be good for all
the things named in this advertise
ment.
Prof. Thatcher, while we were in
IN,
Portland. Ore, who claims to have
found out a remedy for all the insect
pests and diseases that affict our
trees. All you have to do is to bore
a hole into the tree, put the dope"
in, then plug it up; the circulation OF
the sap does the rest and all insects
and diseases HE themselves away!
Thatcher wrote the man and tried to
get him to furnish him sworn state
ment as to the efficiency of this rem
edy, but the man was not looking for
such greenhorns as Thatcher, and
would not comply with his request.
Turn down all such fakes.
C. e. Flint of Blaine, Wash, whose
advertisement appears in The Ranch,
writes to thank me for the good things
I said about him and his business not
long since. I wish to quote some
things he says, for they give a very
good reason why Mr.. Flint is spoken
of in such high terms by those who
deal with him: at is very hard to
live up to the good opinion of our
friends but in this case at least I
shall try. I endeavor to let nothing
leave the farm for any market, be it
plants or other produce, that l would
not willingly buy myself. Just simply
apply the golden rule test, and If 1t
docs ctn hn lznan If of