The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-05-10
OUGHT TO SPRAY
SAME AS EVER
Orchardists Go Through Routine
Of Work Despite Promise
of Small Crop
NO DAMAGE REPORTED
TO COOLING MOTH
By Hard Freezes Which Trimmed
the Fruit-Cood Care This
Year Will Show in the Clean
Harvest of the Next Season

The man who sprays his fruit this
year is the man who Will have a
good crop next. SO say the fruit in
spectors and it is 4 matter for COM
ment and emulation that the old tim
ers in the business are quite gener
ally going about the routine of the
seasons work just as If April had
been the model month of previous
years. For While ten freezing nights
may have put out of commission
goodly percentage of peaches, pears
and apples, the chances are that they
caused the grub of the cooling moth
snugly tucked away under ground,
or behind loose bark, not the slight
est Inconvenience. With the worms
as numerous as ever, and the fruit
cut down by a third or a half as it
is in many orchards, it is a simple
problem in arithmetic to discover the
number of grubs looking to each in
dividual apple for refreshment.
Still Don't Know.
Another point which the inspec-
tors make is that nobody knows
just how much or how little fruit he
is going to have. People who
been wiped out discover good
many fat little pears forming all
over the trees. Cherries, which were
at first reported among the missing
will be ripe and red, according 20
custom, in many orchards, especially
the later varieties. Apricots which
were forward in blossoming. seem to
have got their fruit set at just the
right time to escape the bighting
effect of the cold. Peaches are still
bloSsoming in some places, (1lling out
buds which have changed their mind
about waiting for another year. The
pears are coming to the rescue with
a second growth act sending out new
sprays of blossoms from tho spurs
which are Wthcred and blasted.
Open Season for Aphis.
IL is the open season, too, for the
aphis, and whole families OF them
can be found clustered in deal
peach blooms, calling loudly Tor
blacl<lcaf or kerosene emulsion. The
ants are travelling mp and down the
tree trunks, too, and the great de-
tcctiVc, Burns, couldn't nose out
hungry ahpis quicker than we'll
brought up ant.
Ants, Too, a Pest.
The ants themselves, which are u
cult above the aphdes in intelli-
gcncc, since they are shrewd enough
to let the aphides eat the leaves. and
then extract the nourishment from
the louse-thus acting IN the role OF
capitalists or slave drivers, as one
puts it--are nearly. perhaps quite.
as serious a pest as the little green
and black bugs. They honey-comb
about the roots of tho tree, loosenins
the soil and disturbing the roots. and
in the cases of young trees not in
frequently causing them to languish
and die.
The ants are problem, much Ike
the wire worm, in that there is no
specific remedy warranted to eradi-
cate them. They may be burned
out with coal oil, but there are sur
vivors who industriously go to work
at home building a few feet farther
on. They may be deluged with irr
CATION water. but enough of the
precious eggs are rushed out OF
danger by the faithful nurses to start
another colony. There is an evil
SlllFlllHR tUfIllltdl ttlleu tdEDOH
sulphide which, when poured down
an ant hole, by its powerful fumes
sulfocatcs all those not able at oncs
to get to the all The best time TO
put it in is at night when the whole
colon has gone to bed.
other Antidotcs.
The disulphide, however, Is ea-
pcnsiVe and to put out of business
! many ant hills in this way would bs
strain on the rancher's pocketbook.
There are other antidotes on tho
market all Of which probably have
some effect, but the ant Is genet
ally more persistent than the msh
out after him. 1t is really an en-
durance test with the betting in IA
vor of the little fellow