The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-09-01

DOCKS 10 see WHAT nave DOSu Jul SdiSf
and our profits. There are many hon
est real estate men and 1t would be
manifestly unjust to condemn the
class as a whole, but that some men
in this line of business are unmitigated
scamps and a curse to the country
goes without saying. The condemna
ton that comes from that class is fal
better than their praise. Any honest
man is to be congratulated who wins
their disapproval Recently North
Yakima paper had severe arraign
ment of a class of real estate men who
are in the habit of running down any
part of the country in which they have
lands to sell, but claiming great supe
riority for the section where they have
lands for sale. Such men were justly
condemned as a curse to the country
Even an honest man may be led into
an error by publishing only the most
favorable reports and unconscionsly
perhaps, making the impression that
such results can be realized every
year. The unreliability of this class
of real estate men is SO well known
that many new corners try to avoid
them. I know of many such cases.
The following interesting letter is
from A. T. Richardson, North Yakima
Wash, under date of Aug. II. We al
ways like to hear from friend R., fol
he is a careful observer. l do moi
fully agree with him in this case
for | know of some cases where nc
spraying was done at all on some
young trees and the worms are very
bad. But we like to get all the facts
will submit this matter to our state
entomologist and see what he has tC
say:
Dear Mr.. Walden:
You speak of the absence this yeal
of cooling moth in your orchards. Dc
you think this can be attributed en-
tirely to the spraying operations? Oh
the fact itself there seems to be nc
question; at least l hear the same
story from every one in our neighbor
hood; but this sudden and complete
disappearance of the omnipresent in
sect seems to me very queer. have
only about an acre of apples and re
lated fruits, young trees, and I have
not as yet seen single WOrmy apple
pear or crab. It would be f1atterine
to think I had effected this by my
spraying, but honestly l do not think
have. l have only sprayed twice
with the dust-spray, using a little
hand-power machine; and my crabs
for instance, which hung as thick as
grapes, so that | do not believe any de
vice ever invented could have reached
all parts of them, have not shown one
CD
probably half of them went to the bad
Is there not something here for the
entomologists to look into and explain
to us if they cam? Some natural cause
that has cut off the generation of the
codling month or it's food-supply?
Other curious things | notice this
year are that the lecanium scale
which was thick last year on all my
plums and prunes, and present ever
on apples and other kinds, has not ap
peared at all; yellow-jackets in 1907
were everywhere, even UP in the noun
tains, and are practically unknown
this season; horse-fies on the Other
hand, are thicker than | have seer
them before; peach aphis has motor
iously done serious damage, especial
ly to Crawfords, while cherry aphis
has hardly been noticeable, and havc
seen no aphis at all on apple and plum
trees.
Very naturally all our readers who
are fruit growers and have fruit tc
sell are interested in the condition oil
the crop and especially the apple crop
The best authority I know on the fruit
crop reports is the Fruit Grower, of st
Joseph, Mo. To copy these reports
in full would require too much of oul
space, but this valuable paper gives
summary of these for August as fol
lows:
Our crop reports this month show