The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-12-20
CODD[ING MOTH N
1909
ADDRESS OF =. S. DARLINGTON,
COUNTY FRUIT INSPECTOR, AT
THE COUNTY HORTICULTURAL
MEETING SATURDAY.

The following statement relative to
the coiling moth in the Wenatchee
valley was read by County Fruit In
spector Darlington at the meeting of
the Chelan County Horticultural as
ISOLATION held Saturday at Cashmere.
There have been perhaps more
wOrmy apples in this valley this year
than any previous year in the his
tory of the valley Certainly there
has been larger per cent than ever
before.
1T must be remembered, however,
there is difference between the &C
tual number of wormy apples and the
per cent. For instance, a prominent
grower at Wenatchee was almost as
founded when he went to pick his
Gano apples to find them about 25
per cent wormy. But later when he
figured up the number of boxes of
apples that he picked from his Gano
trees he found that he had only
about One-tenth the number of ap-
pies that he had last year. And his
actual number of wormy apples was
little or no greater than it was last
year.
While | believe there has been
an increase in the actual number of
wormy apples this year, believe
that the increase has been somewhat
exaggerated in the minds of growers
and others on account of the scarcity
of good apples
1t would indeed be strange if
there were not an increase this wear.
for we do not need to look far to find
several conditions that would tend
to produce that effect.
Il would mention first among those
conditions the fact that the blossom
ing was light and that the prospects
for good crop seemed discouraging
at spraying time. In many cases a
tree that was hung rather lightly with
fruit was given a light sprinkle of
of spray and passed quickly by. Many
do not realize that ii takes just about
as much spray and as careful or
more careful work to spray a tree
lightly hung with fruit as it does one
that is heavily laden. So let me saw
right here that poor prospects in the
spring is very poor excuse for ne
glecting to properly spray For we
always realize in the fall. when il is
too late. that what appeared little or
nothing on the trees in the spring.
turned out to be a fair crop in the
fall.
Perhaps no less responsible for
the wormy apple situation is the
popular one spraying idea. and the
improper application of that single
spraying
Il say the popular spraying idea.
for il is popular, not only in this val
icy, but all over the state. It is the
Idea Of spraying only once that is
popular more than the special pains
and precautions. which are the i'm
portant parts of Professor Melandpr's
theory and practice.
Even Professor Melander's re-
suits with the one spray method are
a long way from being perfect. lie, Us
see what results he actually did get
When Professor Melander took the
Lanham orchard it had borne crop
the previous year that was about 30
per cent wormy. He reduced it the
first year to about one-tenth of | per
cent But he did not do that with
one spraying. He sprayed four times
to get these almost perfect results
In 1908 Professor Melander again
took charge of the Lanham orchard
This time he sprayed part of the or
chard once, and left a part, a block
OF five rows, unsprayed
The part that was sprayed once
Mr.. Melander says was 100 per cent
clean, so nearly so, that he would call
1t that But this orchard was so
thoroughly cleaned up the year be-
fore that even those trees that were
not sprayed at all bore 81 per cent
clean fruit Then this was hardly a
fair test of the one spray method.
However, Professor Melander did
give this method fair test in the
Johnson orchard in 1908. This or
cfard was about so per cent wormv
IN 1907. Professor Melander SPRAYED
1t once. In September, when the King
apples were ripe. the professor was
unable to come over to pick and
count his results, so | did it for him
1t think it was the third of Septem-