The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-07-12
PESTS
NUMEROUS
Delightful Summer Weather Ii
Conducive to Their Increase
and Prosperity
DISEASES OF PLANTS
ARE MANY AND QUEER
Remedies Of All Sorts Are Recon-
mended by the State College
Insects Thrive in the Sort of
Weather Yakima Has Enjoyed

With all the rest of the country
sweltering, North Yakima the sup
i posedly hot city putting up brand
of climate that couldn't be exceeded
for summer weather. is something Of
an anomaly. Delightful az the cool
nights and the not too oppressive
/ days of the past weeks have be N
for business. they have been, also.
! equally delightful for the trees and
garden pests. 1t has required some
thing more than eternal vigilance on
the part of the orchardist this year
to keep his trees clean and free from
/ the thirty-three varieties of pest
Icatalogued by the state college. And
the wire worm has done his deadli-
est, seeking out every succulent thing
to devour it. charging his menu this
year to take in varieties which he
commonly did not bother about.
No Antidote
The tragic thing about the Wire
worm is that he is apparently i'm.
mune from all sprays. potons or pre-
|
is vivisection. Some people say that
the ground can be sterilized before
planting by pouring on the row 70
be planted, scalding water: others
that lime be so mixed with the soil
as to render it an undesirable abode
for the worm, but Prof. Melander Of
the state college in answer to a di-
rect question about what to do to
| get rid OF the wire worm, stated
that he knew of nothing at all. 1t
almost seems as If the entomology
department out to concentrate its
Ienergies next year on this one pest
| for from garden peas to sweet peas,
melons to pansies, strawberries, po-
! tatoes and young onions, there is
nothing which can live against the
insinuating attacks of this miserable
little earth worm. He is even hard
| to Kill when. caught in the act, his
shell being sufficient to resist the on
slaught of the hoe. unless there is Il
! hard surface beneath him. That he
| is an i'll Favored as we'll as ill-favor-
ed pest is apparent from the fact
that the chickens won't eat him.
Big Damage III IlttN limo
The pear slug is another contempt
! tible plant foe who can do a hear
: of damage in a small time. \ half
| inch or less of yellow jelly, with no
anatomy or features, he appears up
on healthy pear leaf and eats the
| life out of it, When he has finished
with that leaf, it blackens as #
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one higher up. When he has sisters
and cousins and aunts all at work
on the same young tree. it goes har1
with the tree, if the marauders are
not quickly discovered and sprinkleI
with dust or ashes They yield
| readily, it is true, to this rather sim
| pie remedy, being smothcred by the
| dust which adheres to their gelatin
Gus outside. The hot sun is supposed
| to have an absorbing effect upon the
pear slug. as we'll as on the aphis,
green, red and black. 1t is also sup
posed to drive the wire worm deep
er into the ground whore it ceases
| 70 trouble. But the sun has not
| been serious enough this summer to
do any of these things, and the pests
IhaVe reaped rich ana early harvest
Spraying No Good
Then there is the western tomato
blight with which Yakima gardeners
of several seasons or more experience
are familiar and which is a puzzle to
every newcomer who attempts a gar
den. It is a mysterious and discour-
aging disease, for which no antitoXi1
has vet been found. The only thing
Ito do is to set out strong plants,
close together, or plant the seed
thick in rows. Spraying will do no
good. Give the best of care shade
land plenty of water. one may get
a fair crop in this way, but the
chances are that one wont.
\ Bad Moth
The ephinX, "A big hawk moth,
som e+imes known as a humming bird
as it flies. is supposed to be response
BILE for damage to tomatoes laying
Its eggs thereon, from which hatch
larvae which find the tomato plant
Imuch to their liking.
Beans don't thrive here. They set
lanthracnose For this the Bordeaux
mixture is recommended by the state
college when all the plants are grow
ling. followed by another spray IN
three weeks and a third three weeks
later.
The cut work can be folled by
scattering poisoned bait before plant
ing.
List of Pests
The pests make up an imposing
fist and are as follows: Oyste" shell
bark louise. san Jose scale, red sp-
der, blister mite, green aphis. bud
moth. peach worm or tWig bJHar
wolly aphs, black aphis, leaf hopper
cooling moth, slug. tent caterpillar.
climbing cut worm, tru"h bhrer,
grasshopper. flea beetle cut worm,
root maggot. cabbage worm, ar his,
moss and lichen leaf curl mildew-
brown rot or fruit m)ld, sab, lire
/ blight. fruit spot, black spot canker.
potato scab. potato blight, tomato
blight anthracnose and smut.
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