Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-03-01
Mjseellaneous &eadin9.
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
How to Destroy Pests That Prey on
Trees and Vegetables.

Trees and Vegetables.
Many of the insects most injurious
to our crops are introduced pests,
says a bulletin Of Clemson college.
The San Jose scale is a good exam
pie.
A few years ago the legislature Of
South Carolina attempted to relieve
the situation by passing a nursery
inspection and quarantine law. 1t
was the intention of this law to pre-
vent outside dealers from shipping
into this state infested nursery stock.
1t provided that stock shipped into
this state should be accompanied by
a certificate of inspection certifying
that the stock had been carefully in
spected by duly authorized govern
ment officer and that said stock was
free from injurious insects and conta-
gious plant diseases. 1t Is further re-
quired that certificate Of fumiga-
ton accompany nursery stock ship
ped into this state.
In 1904 and 1907 bills were passed
known as the boil weevil quarantine
act. The object Of this law is to pre-
vent the introduction of the Mexican
boil weevil through shipment Of cot
ton seed, cotton seed hulls, baled or
unbaled cotton seed, forage plants,
etc, from the boil weevil infested
territory. 1t is impossible to have
any law executed according to the
letter but every law has an intention
which should be carefully observed.
The nursery inspection law means
that any man in South Carolina buy
ing nursery stock from without the
state should satisfy himself that the
person from whom such stock is
bought is reliable, that Furthermore
this stock has been carefully inspect
ed by an expert competent to make
such an inspection and that the stock
has been declared free from conta-
gious diseases and injurious insect
pests.
In travelling through the state re-
stock was encountered at railroad
stations not complying with this re-
quirement of the law. Every one
of these cases was thoroughly investi
gated and people are cautioned that
such shipments can not be delivered
from the railroad stations at which
they arrive. Such stock should first
be inspected by a duly authorized Of
ficer of this state before it can be
delivered.
This office, therefore, again urges
cooperation on the part of those
people who have any occasion to ship
stock in from outside of South Caro-
lima, believing that as long as this CO.
operation does not exist we have no
reason to complain II we are over
run by bugs imported into this state.
The inspection office has been very
active and investigated and dealt
properly with every case that did not
comply with the laws of this state
whether it applied to consignments
Of nursery stock or to shipments of
cotton from within or near the boil
lweevil territory Of the southwest.
At the present time there Is kept
as nearly as possible a correct north
ern and eastern distribution line of
the Mexican cotton boil weevil.
While such a line is nearly correct,
it can be easily seen that it can not
be absolutely correct. 1t can only
be close approximation. If for in
stance. such a line on the map passed
through Jackson, it does not mean
that any place anywhere east of this
line is safe from which to ship agri-
cultural products into this state,
while such material shipped some
distance east of this line might be
safe. The inspection office, therefore,
is guided not by the exact line as
given for boil weevil distribution, but
by the territory east of this approxi-
mate line. Whenever this office en-
counters nursery stock at railroad
stations or other shipments from in
or near the boil weevil infested ter
ritory of the southwest, and finds
it necessary to confiscate same and
destroy it, there should be no reason
for complaint.
Anyone not informed as to the
details of the inspection laws should.
before he makes a shipment from
outside of the state. write to Glenn
son college and we will be glad to
give him information and render him
every assistance possible.
Bugs and How to Fight Them.
The following bulletin, issued by
the agricultural experiment station at
Clemson college, is peculiarly inter-
esting at this time:
There are two questions frequently
asked in regard to insects affecting
plants. One question is how to de-
stroy the Colorado potato beetle; an
other how to spray fruit trees in the
spring to prevent the serious ravages
| by the fruit worm?
Regarding the first question. this
office has advised the use of Paris
green. owing to the fact that it is one
of the cheapest poisonous insecticides
on the market. Complaints, however,
have been frequently made that Paris
green burns the foliage of the plants.
The following formula, therefore, is
given for fighting these bugs another
season: Paris green. one pound; wa
ter. 100 gallons milk of lime. three
pounds. To the Paris green little
water is added and stirred so as to
make a paste. This is added to the
barrel of water after which the milk
of lime made by shaking three pounds
of store or quick lime is added to
the mixture and thoroughly stirred.
This will make a thoroughly poison
Gus spray for the beetles. at the same
time will not injure the foliage of the
potato vines.
For Family Garden.
| The formula above given is for
large scale spraying. For 4 family
garden Of course one would not care