The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-09-21
INSPECTION
Of ORCHARDS
IS CHECKED
BY the Experiment Station
on Account of Lack of
Funds.

MoRGANToWN, Sept. 1G--LacN
of funds has caused the suspension
OF the inspection of the orchards in
the state as carried on during the
last few weeks by the West Virginia
experiment station under the SUI
pervision OF Director James II. stew,
art. While the inspection has not
covered the entire state, as had been
planned, large number of counties
have been traversed and the results
are especially gratifying. 1nspec-
tons have been made in the follow
ing counties: Monongahalia, Brooke,
Hancock, Ohio, Marshall, Marion,
Taylor, Wetzel Tyler, Harrison,
Lewis, Upshur, Barbour, Berkeley,
Morgan, Hampshire, Mineral, Tucker.
Hardy, Pendleton. Grant, Webster,
DoddrIdge, Richie, Peasants,
Writ, Wood, Jackson, Mason, Cabell
Wayne, Putnam, Greenbrier, Poca-
hontas, Summers and Monroe
The inspections as carried out by
the experiment station have re-
suited in establishing at least one
essential fact. that the continued
inspection of orchards and the cut
ting out of infected trees will lower
the percentage of infection and will
tend towards the complete eradlca-
ton of the infection The expert
ment station has been making in
spections of the orchards in the Po-
tomac valley for the last eight or
nine years and in this section the
percentage of infected trees has been
lowered from about 35 per cent to
less than one per cent. This record
must be accredited to the work Of
inspection and the removal of trees
which were infected. In the Poto-
mac valley the greatest part of the
infection which even now exists is
found in abandoned orchards. The
inspectors this year had special in
structlons to hunt out all abandoned
orchards and in case they found in
fected trees, to order their removal.
Tho experiment station and its rep
resentatiyes are backed by a statute
which makes the destruction of the
infected trees compulsory. The in
spectors have had no trouble with
the orchard owners, in fact they
have been assisted in every possible
way. The orchardists of the state
are realizing the value of spraying
and the destruction of infected trees
and are eagerly following out the
instructions of the men sent out by
the experiment station.
The reports of the inspectors are
now being tabulated by Director
Stewart. In case there are any
funds left after all of the expenses
of the inspection are paid. demon
STATIONS will be held at various
points in the state on the San Jose
scale.
The inspections, which have just
come to a close, have resulted in a
large amount of practical informa-
tion for the farmers. In most in
stances the inspectors were follow
ed through the orchards by the
owners and numerous questions af.
fecting tree life, disease, soil con,
ditions, etc, were asked.
The inspection has created consid
cradle favorable comment from varl
Gus points in the state and in Other
states. When the state is inspected
throughout, there will be a detailed
list of the number. kind and qualit,
of the trees and orchards in thu
state on file at the experiment sta
ton. The inspection is the result o
a large amount Of work and though
on the part Of the director Of tn,
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