The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-03-26

THE ORCH AR y
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thoroughly COLOMBO the orchard
and get good start at your neigh
bors. The trees that you notice
will be pretty we'll crusted over
with them on the particular parts
that show it worst and the proba-
bil1ty is that their first appearance
was from two to three years pre-
vlOus, to this condition. From the
tact that each female scale will pro-
duCe from 200 to 500 Young and
that there are from three to four
generations each season, we will
leave you to figure out for YOUR
self, how many you would have in
the orchard at the expiration of
the third year.
There are numerous other scale
insects. that greatly resemble San
Jose. The Putnum aud Forbes
most particularly. These should
be destroyed and readily respond
to the treatment of San Jose, but
are not 50 destructive, neither do
they multiply SO fast With a
sharp knife take slice of thin bark
merely cutting just through the
outer portion and if you find a col
oring greatly resembling skoke
berry juice, you may make up your
mind you have the genuine San
Jose. This is also true on the
fruit. Wherever you see the dark
spot, with the purple coloring
around and under, on light colored
fruit, look out for scale and where
you find the yellow spot OH high
colOred fruit raise a small portion
of the skin and if you find the pur-
pie coloring it is scale. We do not
wish to be understood that all spots,
on fruit, showing these markings
are scale, but all San Jose scale,
when on the fruit, give the above
e .ect. Exam II. your trees closely
each season and look we'll to your
fruit while picking and should
some of the above symptoms APP
pear use the purple test to see if it
is San Jose and if it is, do not stop
at just spraying that tree, but spray
all that are within dangerous proX-
unity to it. We would advise all,
who are in need of information re-
garding treatment, to write their
nearest experiment station. These
stations are up-tO-date in their
methods, practical in their recon-
mendations and should have no
private ideas, or plans to advance,
other than general good. They
are always glad to render the farm
er assistance in every way possible
and desire to assist you. Why not
take the advice of the expert,
when they are state institution
and there for general purposes. 1t
is your duty to call OH them for as
sistance in combating any commo
evil you cannot, in yourself con-
troll and it is their duty to give you
such advice and assistance as be-
comes necessary to exterminate the
evil.
TO such as will not take the
the trouble, to write their station
for a bulletin, on the subject and
for fear some reader may discover
the scale, too late to get the bulle-
tin and still get the work done this
spring, we will herewith give the
treatment usually employed:
Take sulphur l pound, lime 1
pound and water or 4 gallons.
First Stake the lime in vat of
some kind. When slaked add the
the sulphur and enough extra wa
ter so that the mixture will stir
easily. Keep it well stirred till
boiling begins. After one hour 5
boiling the mixture should be COM
pletely dissolved Except for i'm
purities in the 1ime) and of all
amber color. Then add the requi-
site amount of water, and the
mixture is read to spray. 1t should
= .,o,,,aJ into the cptovii1C tank