The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-09
Nurseries Here Furnish Trees
for All the World.
Guaranteed by State to BE Free
From Insects.
START STATE SURVEY
TWenty-Eight Counties Have
Already Been Inspected.
Permanent Record Shows Con-
ditiOn of All Trees.

| Leavenworth, Kan, Dec. 9.-That the
nurseries of Kansas produce the great
er part of the worlds supply of apple
| seedlings was one of the facts brought
out in the report of Prof. S. J. Hunter
| state entomologist, to the Kansas State
Horticultural society here today. Shaw
nee and Douglas counties raise most OF
the seedlings, and the supply, distribu-
ted to all parts of the world, is guaran-
| teed free from insect and other orchard
pests by the states system of nursery
inspection.
In the year covered by the report,
Professor Hunter and his staff INSPECT
ed II million fruit trees in various
parts of the state, 300 acres of small
fruits, and 81 million forest and fruit
seedlings The results of this inspec-
ton were embodied in the report given
to the Horticultural society today.
Cooling Moth Injury Severe.
THE past season was one of severe
cooling moth injury said Prof. Hunter.
Our experiments showed that the
blossom spray was the most important
factor in counteracting the evil. Or
chards we sprayed at intervals through
the summer produced a fair crop, while
others nearby in which no spray was
used failed to produce an apple. Ex-
periments carried on in Douglas, Frank
lin, Shawnee, Reno and Sedgwick coun-
ties showed that spraying is nearly use
less if not done at the right time, and
also that an entire orchard must be
sprayed. Otherwise diseases will be
transmitted over the entire orchard
from the unsprayed section"
Professor Hunter and his corps of
helpers, trained in the chronological
laboratories at the University of KAN
sas, have completed a survey in % coun-
ties covering the western end of the
state. From this territory they have
collected and classified all forms of in
sect life which are beneficial or harm
full to crops and orchards.
Summers Work Big Help.
THAT survey Of the western part of
the state is useful to all Kansas" said
Professor Hunter, because conditions
are more nearly natural than else
where in the stete. A threatened in
sect attack is likely to show there
sooner than anywhere else. And with
our survey completed, we know pretty
well just what insect is causing trou-
BILE in a given locality
Thirteen other counties, extending
from northeast Kansas to the south
west corner, have been surveyed with
reference to insects beneficial or in
furious to orchard and forest trees. |
Elaborate arrangem ents insure the ac-
curacy of this work. Blueprint maps
based on the county survey are made
of the territory to be worked over. |
are fruit trees is carefully inspected, |
the number and kind of trees are
noted together With their condition
and commentator for treatment if
diseases are found
All this data the inspector enters on
q blank. A second inspector som e |
time later jots down the result of the |
treatment The blank then becomes |
part of a permanent record, and it is !
possible to learn the condition of the /
fruit trees in any surveyed locality in /
| given year.
The details of the survey are so care
,ully kept by means of the map system
hat Professor Hunter finds it possible
o direct several parties in the field,
~ telephone, from his Office at the