The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-01-01

Spitzenburg and the other pippinsi
Now, there is no apple known in our
catalogues as simply the pippin, for
very good reason. The word pip
pin is from the French and simply
means an apple, hence, to say that a
certain apple is a pippin means to
say that an apple is an apple. The
word is always used in our catalogues
and by well informed men in con-
nection with the name of the apple,
as Missouri pippin, New York pippin,
Vandevere pippin, Twenty-Ounce pip
pin, and so on. In the book entitled
Apples of New York" which is far
from being a complete list of the
apples OF America, the word pippin
occurs 1873 times. A complete list
would probably contain something like
1000 varieties of the apple and in such
list the word pippin would be found
about 500 times. So the lucid state
ment of this editor was about equiv
alent to saying that this man raised
two kinds of apples-one was the
Spitzenburg and the other wasn't.
The following instructive letter from
Prof A. i. Melander, the entomolo-
gist of the Washington experiment STA
ton at Pullman, is very cheerfully
given to our readers, for it will be
of great help to them in settling what
form of arsenic to use in spraying for
the codling moth:
Pullman, Wash, Nov Is, 1906.
My dear Mr.. Walden: l note your re-
marks with interest on the success you
have had with arsenate of lead in your
orchard, given in the last issue of The
Ranch and I thought it would interest
you to get the results of our years
work with this same substance
We have given careful tests of several
brands of the arsenate of lead used in
dHerent strengths, in about 125 acres
of orchards in eastern Washington. The
results bear out what we decided from
our experiment tests at North Yakima
last year. Among the conclusions that
we have arrived at from this years test
I may mention the following: Arsenate
of lead used 1 pound to 40 gallons OF
water is tire most effective strength;
when used much stronger it does no ad-
ditional good. Four sprayings gave en-
tire satisfaction
The Eagle Brand turned out somewhat
better than any of the others that we
tried and we can heartily recommend
this brand. Among the other conclus-
ions we reached we have shown that the
proximity of an unSprayed orchard has
but little effect on the, results from
spraying We have also shown that
no matter how badly infested an orch
ard may be the treatment of single
year will give complete success.
In all the orchards we experimental
in this year the crop for the last few
years has been an absolute failure be
cause Of the codling moth. The average
returns from our. experimental spray
ings were $3.50 of good fruit.
Very truly yours,
A. L. MELANDER.
s1T1,r1o IOro,,JD Of tho of
of lead we have never used. We have
always used "SWift's Arsenate Of
Lead" and have had good results.
Others in our neighbOrhood have used
"Disparene," which, as l showed last
summer is Bowker's arsenate of lead
and the results were good. In add1-
tional letters from Prof. Melander he
says: "The Eagle Brand of arsenate
of lead is manufactured by the Adler
Color & Chemical Works, of New
York, and their agents for this state
are the Chas. H. Lilly Co., of Seattle
Richey C Gilbert, of Toppenish are
arranging to handle this lead arsenate
and | doubt not other firms in Yakima
county and in other counties will do
the same. On our farm we expect to
give this make of lead arsenate
trial the coming summer.
The following interesting letter from
Prof. Piper is a valuable contribution
to the solution of the question which
are the best legumes to use in reno
waiting our orchards:
Washington, D. c., Nov. 2S, 1906.
Mr. f. Walden; Dear Sir:-I have your
of 10
glad to hear from you. 1t is a pleas
ure to know you are going to inaugu-
rate the experiments with green manure
crops in the Yakima valley, and | shall
take great pleasure in assisting you to
the greatest extent along these lines
There will necessarily need to be some