The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1908-12-24

lEom oregon OF It's action and asking
them to use their efforts against th,
Porter bill aud to support bill pro
vlding tor pure arsenicals in tire,
sprays.
Another resolution carried was on,
indorsiug the appropriations which
Will be asked by the Oregon Agricul
tural College from the state when tn,
legislature meets this winter.
A matter brought to the atten,
tion of the association by President
Kay was that OF paying dues for the
past year. He stated that only {
small percentage of the members bad
paid their dues end that it was neces
sary for the society 20 have the funds.
Half OF the amount due paid by the
local association goes to the State SO.
ciety and owing TO the fact that a
number of the societies of the state
had been Iemiss in this direction, Mr..
h. l.. Smith explained that the ex.
pense OF holding the recent horticul.
tural meeting in Portland had devolv
ed on a few who we've present.
The sessions OF the institute we're
continued Tuesday, the morning
meeting being presided over ny q. K.
Castner, vice president of the society.
The opening talk was made by b. K.
Tucker who discussed pruning in all
its phases and at length. Mr.. Tuck
er's obser vations on this important
matter were OF great value as they
were taken from practical exper.
fence. lie stated that he was forced
to the conclusion that the most intel
ligent way to prune tree was to
stimualte the wood growth until it
reached Jan age where it was large
enough to bear fruit withuot injury.
| lie said he believed that it was more
Injurious to allow a tree to Eear four
or i've boxes of apples when it ws
from four to five years old than to al
low 1T bear twelve to fourteen boxes
when it reached the age of twelve
years. Furthermore, he cautioned
against cutting at all until the man
who was doing the cutting knew ex-
actly what he was doing it for. tie
believed however by close study that
trees could be made to grow in almost
any shape or to make wood or fruit by
the persistence and patience OF the
grower. lie also delivered very
geod talk in regard to proper packing
and accompanied his remarks with
practical experience along this line.
MIR. Tucker was followed by Prof.
q. b. Bradley who delivered short
address on soils explaining their COM
position, the necessary elements to
produce fruit and the tact that it
took hut few years to exhaust their
life. Prof. Bradley in this connec-
tion said that the soils OF Oregon
we're comparatively virgin, as they
had been cultivated only in few
places and in small percentage for
90 years aud it had taken ages to
bring them to their present high state
OF ioduotivity. He explained how
wheat lands had been allowed to be-
come exhausted by over cultivation
and production and said,that the same
result would undoubtedly ensue under
the same conditions with an orchard.
l he supply of humus and nitrogen
must be kept up whether by artificial
or other smeans. His talk aroused a
great deal OF interest and discussion
that was participated in by many OF
his listeners.
The afternoon session was turned
over to the Professors, A. b. Coldley
and G. |. Lewis. The former made
the opening address, his subject being
"Apple Scsb and Fungus. In con.
trolling this disease Mr.. Cordley said
that the experiment station had con-
Quoted some experiments to deter
mine the best means of eradicting it
and that he had found lime and sui.
phur to be better medium than
bordeaux mixture. In these expert.
ments three sets of trees which we're
used showed that on those which we're
not sprayed for apple scab only 10 pea
cent we're free from this disease.
Those which we're sprayed with bor-
deaux showed 80 per cent of clean
fruit and those which we're sprayed
with lime and sulphur at the proper
time bore so per cent Of apples free
of scab. Later experiments along the
same line gave 80 per cent of the ap-
pies free of scab sprayed with lime
and sulphur. Mr.. Cordley stated
however that the spray must be- ap-
piled at the right time and had been
found to be very efficient at i pound
to Is gallons OF water mixed with z
pounds OF arsenate OF lead to so gal
ions of water and applied with the
first spray for the Goblin moth. The
apple scab germs he stated we're not
carried through the winter in the tree
but in the dead leaves which we're
allowed to lie on the surface of the
ground. liz these leaves could be
burned oil plowed under the surface a
long step would Ee gained in getting
rid OF apple scab. Both these meth
ods we're, however, expensive and the
logical solution of the problem was to
spray them with the best funh icide
which could be found, and, so far
lime and sulpher was the best that
bad been tried at the expe jment sta
tion.
Mr.. Cordley's advocacy OF lime and
sulpher as tungicide in preference
to bordeaux aroused warm discussion
participated in by G. Ii. Sproat, DR.
Stanton Allen, q. |. Sargent, Il. II.
Shepard, }. ii. Shoemaker and Others.
Mr.. Sproat had been very successful
he said in controlling apple scab with
the use of bordeaux and told OF the
actual results he had accomplished in
his orchard He said however that he
bad listened to Mr.. CordIey with at
tention and expected to try in part
the method he had told about, next
year. Mr.. Shepard said he had beeu
very successful with bordeaux and
Mr.. Sargent also gave testimony to
this effect. DR.. Allen had burned the
leaves and felt that he had been ben.
Gifted by so doing.
A very pleasant diversion was then
announced by Mr.. Murray Kay, which
was to the effect that Miss Hanna
would kindly sooth the rutiied feath-
ers Of the bordeaux lime and sulpher
advocates and opponents by singing
for them. This she did wi b Miss
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