Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-17
OF INSPECTORS.

Except for the fact that the season
has been too mild the condition Of the
apples which have been marketed III
Salt Lake durini; the season Just closed
has been the best yet, The inspector
declares a more severe season would
have had the tendency Of making the
fruit more solid and 1t would have
kept in better shape, Because of the
warmth stored apples have rotted
rapidly ana where they have not been
graded often the loss from this source
has been considerable. Inspector stay
advises those who have apples stored
in lofts or cellars to sort them often.
+ declaring the saving from such precau-
ton wen puys for the time consumed
Of the 5000 bushels of ap.
pies which have been inspected
son. 526 bushels have been de-
stroycl because OF worms and the san
lose scale. Three carloads of apples
have been rejected hccnusc of these
faults, and were not allowed To be un-
loaded 2,101 bushels OF pears have
passed inspection. while but 10 bushels
have bccn rejected and destroyed be-
cause Of worms In the apples rejected,
the loss has been reduced to the mini
mum for these have heen sold by the
producer 20 cau1crs. where tho faulty
part Of the fruit can be removed. For
these apples, the fruit growers receive
n very fair price. When IN attempt
Is made to market this fruit, however.
tho grover is not permitted to return
with them, but they are taken in
charge by the inspector and destroyed
The brown tailed moth has cost the
state of Massachusetts S3,o00,oCU this
season. This pest was imported to
America on Seeding stock shipped from
France. as nearly us can he determined.
Through close inspection Mt the open
ing Of the season. the Utah inspectors
almost entirely wiped out the destruc-
tive insect. Twenty nests were found
on nursery stock shipped into Utah
from the east and these were destroyed
In the ~ nests had they been per-
mittcd 10 live. enough of the pests
were contained to have filled the state
within u short time. The worst trouble
which the inspectors have experienced
has been that caused by the green and
black nphiS. They were worse during
the spring than they have ever been
in Utah. Brown mites have also caused
the department no end Vt worry. and
pear blight, while not as bad as In
former seasons. has been persistent.
a great percentage OF the older pear
orchards has been killed because OF the
blight.
The strawberry wecvll has been in
evidence to n large degree and the
damage which the alfalfa wecvil has
done this season Is inestmablo.
ADVICE FROM AN EXPERT
Inspector j. c. Stay asked to give
some advice which. followed. would,
reduce the pests which work havoc
with the fruit. to the minimum, de-
clarcd TINT the present time Is the
best time to prepare for next years
crop. The time to commence Tight
ing tho codling moth is now, he said.
Tho destruction of the larvae which
have been left from the moths or
the past season IS necessary and this
can be done now by cleaning up tho
orchards and burning all brush and
rubbish where the larvae would be
most likely to be found. All bands
should be removed from the trees and
rags which may have lodged in
crotchcs of the limbs should be re-
moved and burned.