The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-04-15
Edited by +. Walden

known to kill honey bees. The follow
ing are his answers:
"The twigs sent by Mr.. White con.
tain eggs laid by two different insects.
The smaller twig with the narrow slit
contains the eggs of the Snowy Tree
| Cricket. The larger twigs with the
peculiar blotches shaped like the i'm
press of a small birds foot, contain
eggs laid by one of the leaf bugs Of
the family Capsidae. In either case
the only remedy would be to prune off
the twigs containing the eggs. doubt
whether a spraying of sulphur-lime
wash would penetrate through the
bark and kill the eggs. 1t might be
tried, however, and probably would
give some relief. AS to the Snowy
Tree Cricket we have here an insect
that is generally considered as bene-
fetal In its early stages it feeds on
plant lice. The only actual damage it
does is to destroy few twigs wherein
| it lays it's eggs or to feed on small
amount of foliage. I think however,
that the good it does in destroying
aphis much more than pays for the
harm it may occasion when it is full
| ly grown AS usual thing the leaf
|
does not appear in sufficient numbers
to occasion alarm. These leaf bugs
feed all through their life by sucking
the sap from the foliage. incidentally
they inject small amount of poison
that may hurt to a slight extent the
| life process of the. leaf.
every once in while there is quite
stir about bees being poisoned by
cooling moth spray. There is, to be
sure, some foundation for this view.
Last spring in discussion with the bee
inspector, Mr.. F. Smith, of Walla
Walla Co., he told me that a large
number of bees were poisoned in the
BlalOck ranch. However, although this
orchard was sprayed just after bios
soming and the apiary containing some
six hundred stands is in the midst OF
the orchard, the bees did not suffer
enough to hurt the colonies Fortu-
nately for the bees the best time to
spray for codling moth is after the
petals have fallen and at this time
there is so little nectar left in the
flowers that there is little inducement
for bees to visit the sprayed blossoms.
Undoubtedly those bees that do visit
the later blossoms, do receive suff1-
! cient poison to kill certain portion.
| 1t almost seems that one should spe-
cialize either in apple growing or bee
keeping if he has so much conscience
| that he is unwilling to poison a few
| bees.
| yours truly,
"a. A. MELANDER.
| The fruit growers of the Pacific
Coast have made every effort posi-
BILE to put their fruit up in first class
shape, and it is very encouraging to
note the appreciation that has been
won from the people in the eastern
part of the United States. Recently
Mr.. R. L. Wolff, of North Carolina,
sent to The Rural New-Yorker some
sample apples taken from a barrel
marked Choice Baldwins, New York"
Mr.. Wolff says that the people in that
section want apples and are glad to
get good ones, but says that they are
woefully imposed on by some sending
out such stuff and calling it choice"
He says that the barrel cost him $3.45
but not a bushel in it is worth 40
cents. The editor of The Rural New
Yorker makes the following comments
and they are worthy of attention:
1--WE had those apples photographed
just as they came. Here they are, in
Fig. 1O7, life size The entire lot
weighed just Az ounces. If we could
make sure of the name of the man
who is responsible for this outrage
We would like to print it where all
may see. Mr.. Wolff does not put it
half strong enough when he shows
how such rascally work hurts the ap-
pie trade. Choice Baldwins, New
York; A nice brand that to go on
a package which contains such look