Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1906-02-02
WAR ON INSECT PESTS
Farmers of Polk County Are Grub
bing Out Old Orchards and
Spraying Their Trees.

is being waged by the farmers Oh folh
county. Old, neglected orchards are
being trimmed up, sprayed and cleared
Of moss. or, if past redemption
grubbed and burned. The moss-grown
apple tree, with its gnarled and twisted
limbs and diseased body, will soon be
only a memory in the Willamette
Valley, and in its place will be tound
the clean, healthy, well-kept tree,
laden each year with wealth oil
choice fruit that will bring golden
dollars to the pockets Of it owner
Farmers are interested in the fruit
industry as never before, and County
Fruit Inspector Num- is daily be-
sieged with letters and personal in
quiries as to the requirements of the
state horticultural laws, best methods
of spraying, and other subjects OF i'm
portance to orchardists.
At the request of the Inspector, and
for the information of our farmer
readers, we take pleasure in printing
the following sections from the horti-
cultural laws of Oregon.
Section l. 1t shall hereafter be un-
lawful for any person, firm, or cor
poration, owning or operating any
nursery, fruit orchard of any kind,
hopyards, flower gardens, or orna-
mental trees, to throw any cuttings or
prunings from any fruit trees, nursery
stock, ornamental trees, or hop vines
into auy public road, highway, lane.
field Or other iuclos ure, or into any
water course of any kind; but shall
destroy such cuttings or prunings
with fire within thirty days from the
time such cuttings or prunings are
made
Section requires that any nursery
fruit orchard, hopyarl, flower garden
or ornamental trees infected with any
kind of insects, pests, or disease, must
be Immediately sprayed or destroyed
in such manner as the fruit com
missioner of the district may direct.
Section S. It shall be unlawful for
any person, firm, or corporation to
import or sell any infested or diseased
fruit of any kind in the State of
Oregon.
Section 7. Any person, firm, or cor
poration violating any of the pro-
visions of this act shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon
conviction thereof, shall be punished
by fine of not less than $25 nor more
than $780,
COUNTY INSPECTOR.
Section of the law of 1906 provides
for the appointment Of County In
spector, whose duty it shall be to in
spect the apple and other fruit orchards
IN his county and to enforce all laws
applicable to the growing, handling
and selling of fruit.
Section provides that the County
Inspector may cause an inspection of
any orchard, tree or vine, or fruit
packing house, store room or sales
room, at any time, and if found in
tested with any pests or disease of an
Injurious nature, shall notify the
owner or person in charge to eradicate
or destroy said insects or pests, or to
treat said disease within a certain
specified time. Such places or fruit
thus infected shall be deemed a public
nuisance, and if not abated by the
owner within the specified time, shall
be abated by the Inspector. The ex-
pense Of such abatement shall become
a lien on the property from which said
nuisance shall have been removed,
and may be recovered in the circuit
court.
BEST SPRAY FOR TREES
The proper time to spray for San
Jose scale, green and woody aphis,
lead spot, apple and pear scab, twig
oorer5, moss, and peach curl leaf is
rom now until the leaves come out on
;he trees. The best fungus and insect
spray is lime, sulphur and copper
'ulphate.
SPRAY NO. II.
Spray No. 2 is made of so pounds of
ime, SO pounds of sulphur, and 10
pounds of blue vitriol. Shake the
ime thoroughly, add the sulphur and |
)lue vitriol and to 10 gallons of
water, and boil from to hours. Put
he solution into $50 gallons of water
md strain through a coarse cloth into
he spraying barrel. One third of
his amount will make so gallons of
material.
Inspector Num- advises the keeping
f these formulas for future use.
When the time comes to spray for the
odling moth, he will let 1t be known
trough the county papers what spray
D use. To get best results, the trees
lust be we'll pruned and the limbs so
hinned that the mixture will reach
very part of the tree.
'Let US spray"
Monthly Weather Report.