Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1907-03-08
POINTS ON SPRAYING
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Such fruit will be condemned and des-
troyed and the owner will be the
loser. All fruit trees and shrubbery
that have not been properly sprayed
with the solution prescribed by the
Oregon Board of Horticulture and
freed Of pests by the first Of April
will be cut down and the cost assessed
against the land and collected by the
county as are taxes. There Will be
no exception to this rule and all will
have 10 pay the penalty II they
neglect their trees. late decision OF
the Oregon supreme court gives the
fruit inspector the fullest power aud
the law can be as vigorously enforced
as can the law FOR killing horses with
the CHAMBERS or cattle with .tubercu-
losis. or for the quarantiniDg OF per-
Sons with smallpox or other conta-
gious diseases.
AS to how to eradicate the pests the
law explicitly states that the trees
must be sprayed with the solution pre-
soribed by the Oregon Board OF Hor-
ticulture, the state board having con
troll OF the enforcement Of the pest
laws, and not by boring the trees and
inserting sulphur or any other ma
terial. This method Of fighting pests
by inoculating the trees or roots
with some preparation is as old As the
frat coming OF the pests, and though
a hundred means have been tried all
have proven failures The cratic
character Of some Of the pests like
the San Jose scale has led per,ons to
believe that they had found a ma
terial that inserted in an auger hole
in the tree would be taken up by the
sap and carried to the bark to the
death OF the pests. An instance OF
how an orchard will be free OF scale
while all the orchards all about will
be reeking with pests was to be seen
IN "A $50 C.>hard on the Wheeler
farm, two miles north Of Grants Pass.
The Union shipped quantity OF
pears from this orchard that were
absolutely free from scale while pears
on trees less than half mile distant
were worthless from scale. This or
ohard had not been sprayed for three
years but it WAS free from scale. while
this year it is liable to be alive with
the pests. Warts are equally rs er-
ratio and there are persons who be-
lieve that to walk around the barn
with cob in your hand will drive
the troublesome pests from your
fingers yet the only sure way is to
spray the wart with an acid solution.
While persons Of an experimenting
turn Of mind have bored trees and
pat in sulphur, vitrol and many
other chemicals and driven nails into
the trunks and did all manner Of
queer things yet the only sure method
is by spraying The experts Of the
Department of Agriculture and of
the State Agricultural Colleges and
also hundreds Of careful orchardists
have tried all manner OF fighting
fruit tree pests and every method
that had the least merit has been
thorouhly tried, Had inoculating
trees proven success il would
have been in general use 90 years ago
aud the fully $1,000, 900 invested in
spray machines in the United States
would have been saved to the fruit
growers
with all the proof of the utter use
lessness of boring trees and filling the
cavity with sulphur and other sub.
stances vet this method has been in
vogue year after year In Josephine
county. The previous failures does
not deter others from trying this boy e
play. For the information Of several
otherwise intelligent men | will give
n few instances whore boring trees
has proven failure la killing pests.
George Crunk bored the trees last
year ia n hne five acre orchard he had
west Of this city and in the Fall he
sold the big crop of apples for a a
ton to the vinegar factory for they
were too scaley 60 ship. J. 5, Bird.
sail, ON Gilbert creek above town,
bored some big pear trees and subse.
quently fed the pears to the hogs, at
loss uf some $50 TO himself. Boring
fruit trees is no recent freak with
Josephine county tree owners. rs is
proven by several orchards. Harry
Reed who had rented last year the
Caldwell place four miles west OF this
city cat several large apple trees that
hAd become 80 nearly dead from the
ravagts of the scale aud othe- pests
that they were 10 longer OF value
When cutting them OPP for wood he
found i'm each an augel hole. bored So
long ago that they had completely
grown over, that were tlll ut sulphur
as dry and perfect JOS tht day d, was
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