The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-05-15

the half strength mixture, would be
adequate to control this disease.
My own opinion is that the old or
chards will have to be thoroughly
sprayed with the Bordeaux mixture in
the winter time. 1t may require the
use of the double strength in the
winter spraying. Then you may have
to spray again in the spring. If my
orchards were near where this dis
ease prevails or already had the dis
ease, should get very decided move
on myself and fight this trouble till
had it conquered.
If friend Wanamaker and ais neigh
bors find that they are not able to
cope with this malady and their ex-
periments in fighting it are not fully
successful, l would recommend them
to report the matter t. their expert
ment station at Moscow ana request
that the proper person be sent there
to study the nature of this disease and
to experiment in the use of remedies.
1t is the business of the station to do
this. Prof French who has been SO
long at Moscow, is a very competent
man. l do not know any one in the
Northwest to whom | would sooner go
that this very able man has just re-
signed. | do not know the nature OF
the difficulty that has led to his
resignation, but | do know that it will
be hard to find as competent a man
and one so valuable to the fruit
growers of that state. | have fire.
uuently met Prof. French at fruit
conventions and have heard him on the
treatment of fungous disease with
great profit to myself. If French is
not available, the station may be able
to send some one else to assist these
people in this fight which must be
won or peach growing there will be
ruined.
| do not wish to- take up too much
time in discussing the apple box ques-
ton but it is very vital question to
the fruit growers of the Pacific Coast.
The Porter Bill is no longer before
Congress but substitute bill has been
introduced by congressman LaFean OF
PENNSYLVANIA This substitute is sup
posed to embody the changes agreed
upon at the conference in Washington,
| D. c.. in January past. The bill ought
| to be an improvement over the Porter
Bill and in some respects it is, but
| in some respects the new bill is a
horrible thing This looks like
hard saying but it is not difficult
thing to make this statement good.
Louis Erb of Cedar Gap, Mo-, who
owns a 1000 acre fruit farm and was
formerly in the commission business
| in Memphis. Tenn, has been pointing
Iafo nf
in the Fruit Trade Journal of New
York. Some of the friends OF this new
bill thought that they would squelch
Lewis Erb. They claimed That ED
did not understand law and that wnen
he said the bill would not stand In our
courts he did not know what he was
talking about. But Erb is still IN the
ring and is decidedly ahead ED
knows an eminent lawyer in Memphis,
Tenn, where he formerly lived and ala
business, so he submitted this bill TO
his lawyer friend and below | give the
lawyers answer. | have carefully
compared Judge Pittman's structures
with the LaFean bill and find that
he is right. Here is what the bill
looks like to a prominent lawyer:
judge Pittman's Legal Opinion.
Memphis, Tenn, March 81.
My dear Mr. Erb:
Your letter of 10Th inst, as well as
printed copy of the revised Porter
bill" or "LaFean apple BILL came
duly to hand In compliance with
YOUR request, l have carefully read
the bill and studied its provisions and
will give you my opinion. You are
eminently correct and just in your
criticism of it. Congress Will never
enact into law a measure so 1nartl-
ficially drawn. In addition to It's
many defects in form, it is bad In
substance Should it by any over
sight pass through Congress as 1t
is drawn, | believe the courts would