The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1907-03-07
RAVAGES OF SCALE
IN new YORK

"ths oiticie, taken from
tne Chicago Packer, gives an idea Of
The effect that San Jose scale is hay.
Ing on the orchards In New York
state. 1t Is fast getting beyond con-
troll, and is diminishing the produc
tion OF eastern apple orchards.
Sodus, N. T., Feb. 22.-The follow
Ing statement has been issued by b.
y. Case, ithe leading fiuit grover in
this town and one of the best posted
fruit men In the United States.
Il want to call the attention of the
people OF Sodus to one of the dangers
which threatens the fruit industry in
this section. think that may safe.
ly say that the fruit that is marketed
throughout the town of Sodus brings
20 PEI cent Of the money into Sodus
chat comes here. 1t is our business.
aud our main business, ,Eand anything
that affects the fruit business affects
more or less every person in town,
wheth her he is engaged in the fruit
business or not.
1.-The San Jose scale, of which you
have read, is very tiny insect, so
email the entomologists tell us that
four admit insects can rest on the
head Iof pin, but this little fellow is
dangerous one to the fruit interests,
as bis ability to propagate his species
Is beyond the human mind to realize
SIT is tiny scale that is intro
duced into any section on nursery
stock. scions, buds, and is especially
liable to be introduced ON Iose bush.
es and currants. Last year the state
inspector found it in five places in
our town, and in all of these places
either the trees have been torn out
and burned or have been thoroughly
sprayed with sulphur and lime. If
this scale should once get a foothold
here 30 that our large, beautiful apple
trees should become encrusted with
1t, 1t would, in my opinion, demoral-
ize the fruit industry. While it can
be held in check with sulphur and
tipe, not cne man in twenty would
be thorough enough with it to keep it
in subsection. In every instance that
] have ever kown where it, has got in
to apple orchards, not in one instance
has It been entirely eradicated ever
after.
~ know of ,eversl large orchards
along the Hudson river that few
years neO were bearing equally we'll
with our orchards here that are near
" all dead and cut down, and the
balance that are not cut down do not
teaI any fruit that would be suitable
even for canning or evaporating.
A large fruit grower who lives In
Kindsrhoo N. y, called on me, He
told me that KinderhoOk was town
about the size ct Sodus village, but
the village WAS much more scattered
that everyone had from i've to forty
apple trees. Ten years ago, he says,
there we're cold 5000 barrels of apples
within tho limits of the corporation,
but for the last two or three years
there have not been enough apples
grown Within the village limits TO
supply the village. All Of this short
sge is due to the rayages OF the San
jose scale.
'tThe large fruit grower who has a
power sprayer, has the necessary cap
ital, and expert information, can
keen the San Jose scale in check so
that he can grow fruit, but the tIou'
BILE is going to be with the small or
cbsrds and the isolated trees where
the owner thinks it will not pay him
70 spray.
HTbia point want the people to
fully understand so that they may re-
aiize tba danger of the pest. 1t it
once gets thoroughly established in
say of our orchards, if it does not
xiii the trees it SO covers the fruit
during the growing period that the
frnit. when it comes to maturity, will
be GO diseased under the skin that the
pariug Machine will not take it Off
In some places on badly infested ruit
they have refused to take it, even at
the cider mills. So far, feel that
Sodus is practically free OF it; that in
the FIVE places where we have found
il it will be stamped out, as it has
only got on small trees.
4 fftn my opinion the time is coming
when Ii will Ee spread over this entire
section, but we want to postpone that
time as long 90 possible. | would sug..
gest that anyone who has planted
Young trees in the last four or i've
wears take pains to get the state in
spector here and have the stock exam
ined. The expense is all borne by the
stats. Anyone writing to j. Bar
den. STANLEY, N. Y, and requesting
such examination can get 1T, ana
would cautioa everyone buying nur-
sery stock, and especially currants or
roses. to have that stock inspected
this spring, either before it is planted
or shortly after.
81 look upon this as very serious
matter and hope that the people IN
the towp of Sodus will take pains to
have their own young trees examined
and see that their neighboi g trees are
examined, and In case when San Jose
scale ia found that they be either
burned at once or thor onghly sprayed
with sulphur and lime. There are or
cbards within a few miles OF the
ternoep of the historic "roadmakers
Of 1843. for whom Pioneer Meeker and
our city OF The Dalles dedicated the
Landmark in the Union Street PARK
about q year ago with appropriate Ger,
emonies, bearing the legend 'hnd oi
The Oregon Trail, 1643- 1905. v |
The honor of being the hrst TO
reach The Dalles by wagon ana OK
team is claimed by Ninevah tord,
who was the foremost In the train
that arrived late in October OF lo43.
The train. which consisted OF some
thing less than 1000 souls, had late
start from the Missouri river, for lt
wss we'll towards the first of June be-
fore they we're under way. j. W. Mes
NTH was elected sergeant. Whitman
was with this train, returning nome
from his famous winter ride OF the
year before. Fremont's government
expadition was to the rear OF the reg
imsnt train, not arriving at Inc
Dalles until November, aft the last
Of the immigration had gone down
the river.
II was when these intrepid road
makers" reached the Blue mountains
that the strenuous end OF the oregon
trail was reached. 1t was during tie
arst days of October aud severe
snow storm that 45 men cut wagon
road in ive days through the timpef
of the main chain of the Blue noun
tains. At Fort Walla Walis the tIain
divided. The main body, beaded .!
waldo. took the land route 20 Ins
IL A.rIauota and HurUott