The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-03-01

| De alOWoQ TO so use the WOrQ what
would it mean but to distribute such
things? In the same section the fruit
inspector is warned to be on the look
out for any thing or place that may be
"a repository for eggs, larvae or any
noxious insects" What kind of eggs
are meant here we are not informed.
So some of our inspectors may be
found visiting our hen houses and car
rying off our hen eggs. l have many
more examples of faulty diction mark
ed, but | will give but one more. Sec
ton Is has reference to the Inspect
ors' Institutes" to be held at Pullman
annually, and among some other bung-
ling expressions the following very
"lucid"(O statement is made: LAS
the purpose of these Institutes is i'm
provement and conference, and study
of insects or experimentation, by the
scientists of the college along ento-
mologist and horticultural lines
here nearly tainted and concluded to
quit.
Some of the provisions of the law
are badly worded and difficult to I'M
derstand and one of them is in direct
opposition to decision of the supreme
court of the United States. These
will be noticed in due time. The
whole law from beginning to end will
have to be rewritten, if it is put into
good form How such a bundle of
bad diction, with the other faults
shall point out, ever passed through
the hands of our intelligent legislators,
puzzles me. Perhaps before passing
from this matter of faulty diction in
the horticultural law it may be we'll to
state many of our legislators are not
practical fruit growers. In their kind
ness they have allowed the fruit men
to frame their own law and then
passed it because the growers were
supposed to be satisfied with it. Ii
this is the case, then the men who
framed the law and presented it to
the legislature are the ones to blame
for it's crude and unscholarly forms.
There may be some difficulty in our
agreeing on the changes that should
be made in the contemplated revis-
ion, but by treating each other fairly
and by showing disposition to con-
cede something for the general good
of our interests, we can agree, and
have no doubt but we shall. But
there can be no difference as to the
necessity of clothing our law in pas
sable English.
S. Percival, North Pendar Island,
B. c., sends in the following inqui-
ries: 81 have some Baldwins badly
affected with oyster-shell bark louise.
Have been advised to cut entire top
off and graft. Tree trunks are about
three inches in diameter. Would it
be too much of a shock to the trees
to cut all of the top off or would it
for a year? Can get scions of Kings
from neighbor whose trees, how
ever, bear apples that are affected
with what we call brown spot
Would it be dangerous to graft with
these? The brown spot does not show
on the trees, but the fruit, after be-
ing gathered, gets affected with brown
specks, which gradually spread all
through the apples"
| do not think that the recOmmen-
dation to cut off the tops of trees af-
fected with the oyster-shell scale and
graft them to some other kind is
good one. Before your trees with
their new tops get to bearing you are
likely to have the same insect again.
Spray your trees with the lime-sul-
phur wash before the leaves put out.
Be sure to cover every spot where
the insects can be found. Use about
twice as much lime as commonly used
in spraying for the San Jose scale.
The lime in drying causes the oyster
shell scale to curl up and they die.
You can wash your trees with strong
solution of caustic soda concentrated
lye) This must be done before the
| leaves put out See under Orchard