The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-08-15

| IN the day time. AT nlSnC, IL IL Is
not too cool, they fly and then lay
their eggs. When Prof. Piper was en-
tomologist at Pullman and any one
reported that he could catch the moth
| by their coming to light, he would
ask that some of them caught in this
way be sent to him, but none ever
arrived.
But some one may say that Mr..
| Schwandt caught them by thousands.
I No doubt he is perfectly honest in
this statement, but he is mistaken.
Very many people do not know the
codling moth, but think they do. am
free to confess that l never knew the
cooling moth till l Matched 1t out in
cage and studied it at close range.
Many other kinds of moths will fly
to the light, but the codling will not.
By catching moths by the thousand,
this man may have done more harm
than good, for some insects are bene-
fetal in the orchard and many are
harmless.
It is somewhat humiliating to see
how many fruit growers misspell the
names of apples. For instance: |
went into one of the buildings on the
A.-Y.-P. grounds the other day and
found a certain apple spelled in three
different ways, viz, Akin, AIKEN and
Aiken. The first spelling is right, &C
cording to our standard authorities.
A friend who visited the Fair reports
that he found such spelling as this:
"Johnathan," "Deleware Red" and "RO-
man Beauty" This friend very justly
adds. Cali very we'll for Farmer
Jones' display of garden-sass at the
Podunk County Fair, but the time for
this is passed in this industry of ours"
| If these criticisms shall stir up the de-
linuuents in this matter and the school
master shall be sent abroad In the
land some good will be accomplished.
The sins of misspelling are not all
among farmers. A reporter in Sc
attic daily recently said that Alberta"
peaches were in the market. At Cen
| tralia, Washington, l once read this
sign: Lunches prepared" A good
old farmer in Yakima County put out
| this sign, duck Eggs for sail" An
enterprising furniture dealer had
sign on a fence board that read, Com
pleet House furnishings Once
read this sign, "Please shet the gate"
| SCOTl0S
| in a country and what it can be sold
| for and what the land is worth in GER
| tain sections, sometimes do more harm
than good 1 have frequently spoken
of these things in The Ranch, and once
| in a while some real estate man mas
been angry at me about the truth L
have told in such cases. The follow
ing clipping from recent issue OF
| the Yakima Democrat is so sensible
that l want to give it my endorsement
and send it to our thousands of read
| erS:
"Let the Truth be Known
/ "There is a great deal of false and
misleading information circulated in
regard to the price of lands In the
Yakima valley and some of this false
| information is circulated by people
who ought to and do know better.
"a we'll authenticated story comes
from Seattle that many Exposition
visitors and possible settlers get the
| impression and return East with 1t
that good, tillable land in the Yakima
valley sells at a price of from $1,000
| to $4,000 an acre, and that there is
| therefore little opportunity for men
here who feel that they cannot afford
to pay such seemingly exorbltant
prices for farm land.
Cali of which is far from the real
facts in the case, as every one CONVEX
SAINT with the situation here knows.
Because a certain relatively small
area favorably located on Mob Hill,
contiguous to the city, has been selling
at prices of from $1,000 to $4,000 per
| acre. and because that fact has been
unduly exploited by local newspaper
/ .4>..oe.aordo and nllhlinitX agents.