The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-04-15
Edited by F. Walden

mined to be honest with our readers
ever if 1 have to confess some fail
ures. There is no question but we
kill many worms under our bands and
when this is done with the first
brood, we greatly diminish the later
broods. 1t is a disputed question
whether we have more than two
broods of the cooling moth during one
summer. 1 have no doubt but local
ity has much to do in this matter. In
the higher attitudes and where for
any reason the nights are cool, there
will not be more than two broods but
in our warmer valleys I am confident
that we have a third brood, possibly
not a full brood, but enough to call
them the third brood.
This difference in the m%ultiplica-
ton of the codling moth has a bear
ing on another phase of this subject.
In some places the cooling moth will
not do much damage if no spraying
is practiced. One of the best inform
ed men in Western Washington de-
clares that it will not pay to spray
for the cooling moth on Vashon ISL
and for the loss on unsprayed trees
Will uOC 0XC0Cu y pei CSuC. Liz GILL
condition is said to prevail in some of
the higher attitudes in Idaho, Colo
RADIO and Washington. 1t will not pay
to spray if We cannot save yer 5
per cent of our apples. Where my
orchards are located l do not believe
that we could harvest 5 per cent of
good apples if we neglected to spray
for two or three years.
Some one may be ready to say
that if that is the case he will go to
these more favored localities to raise
apples. Let me drop a word of eau
ton for such a person: Before you
do this you would better inquire If
you may not III into other Difficult
ties where the codling moth can not
live and flourish. | will not discuss
this matter now, but I want to sug-
gest that it never pays to Jump
out of the frying pan into the fire."
The ancient mariners in trying to
avoid the dangerous rocks of Scylla
wrecked their ships on C%harybdis.
One was on one side of the strait
and the other on the other side.
One lesson that we may deduce
from what 1 have said about the cod
ling moth being so much worse in
some localities than in others is this:
Some n tries an experiment in fight
ing this pest up in the higher regions
or on Puget Sound and reports a
grand success, but what would the
report be if this experiment should
be tried where my orchards are To-
Gated, or about Walla Walla or along
Snake river? 1t is safe to say it
would not be the same. A success
full experiment may reasonably be ex-
pected to duplicate itself under like
conditions, but not under very diff
ferent conditions. This principle will
apply not only in the controlling of
the cooling moth but in a great many
other things. A man once got some
facts from us in fruit growing under
irrigation and then made use of them
in booming some irrigated fruit land
two hundred miles away in a high al
titude. No doubt he was honest, but
the conditions were SO different that
the whole matter was misleading. r.
rigation has it's place in the economy
of fruit growing, but will not change
the climate nor regulate spring
frosts.
Before l leave the matter under on
s%ideration l want to point out a Sc
rious m~isconception prevailing in the
Middle West and the Eastern states.
In the states East, especially in the
Mississippi Valley, conditions are very
much alike over wide areas of coun-
try. What you can successfully
raise in one section of Iowa or ILL
nois, you cal successfully raise in
other sections for fifty or a hundred
miles all around. But it is far diff
ferent on the whole Pacific Slope. l
have left Seattle on the train in the
morning when it was raining, passed
through a snow storm before noon and