Arizona republican., 1911-09-10
UP RATION RAISED
Arizona Orchard Conditions and Insect Experiment Work to be Exhaustively Reported at Com m i Il g Meeting of Commission.

| Dr. A w Morrill,, entomologist for It the Arizona Horticultural commission. las noted in The Republican yester- lday morning, has just returned from Ia trip to various parts of the terri tory, in response to many requests from horticulturists and other farm Iers, for information which could not be given well save at first hand and on the ground
 Another main object of the trip was tD lay a foundation for charging the work of the horticultural commission. in view of the prospects for an in creased appropriation by the board of .cOntrol The appropriation has since been voted by the board, and. accord irg to a letter received by EntomOl- 'ogist Morrill,. yesterday. from the sec retary of the board of control, the for the present fiscal year will be $5O00 instead of $3000 per year. as heretofore, both Governor Sloan and the other members of the board of control recognizing that $3000 per year is insufficient for the grow ipg needs of the territory.
 pr. Morrill, was gone five weeks on the trip, travelling about 35O miles by stage and 150 miles on horseback dur ing the course of it. to say nothing of the travel by railroad. Some of the best orchards were found in the most remote locations.
 
 served by the trip were. to look after the experimental work being conducted ir Graham county by pr. Morrill, in his capacity of entomologist for the Experiment station of the University of Arizona. as well as for the com mission. Another purpose of the doc tors trip was to inspect orchards for presence of the cod!ing moth and give advice to Orchardists concerning means of prevention and destruction. Tn many cases it is brought into or chards by means of boxes and other containers used, to bring fruit from localities already infested, and this he warned growers against. In sev- eral instances infested groves were found which were well isolated and might have remained free from this premier pest of apple growers had the growers been alive to the danger or infection by this means.
 Incidentally. the doctor did what he could to arouse an interest in the ter rtorial fair, as a place of exhibition. in localities not commonly known as horticultural sections but where much good fruit is quietly raised. The new county of Greenlee is generally known as a mining section; and few know that some of the best orchard in Arizona are located therein. In some respects the climatic conditions there are better than in any other portion of Arizona visited, but unfortunately there is opportunity for but limited increase of acreage.
 The doctor went from Phoenix by way of Mesa, Roosevelt, and Globe, by stage, having thus an opportunity to see the orchards near Globe and come into more intimate contact with the owners. He was rather surprised to note the extent of the orchard inter ests near Globe.
 In Graham county, several days were spent at Thatcher in connection with experimental work already re- ferred to, which is being directed largely toward a better knowledge of the life history of the codling moth the number of broods per year, the times at which the young worms en- ter the fruit and other details of de- velopment, the best times for spray ing and the value of banding, the care of windfalls to prevent the deveI- opment of worms in fruit which falls to the ground-amid Arizona condi- tions. Some very fine daily observa- tions were made this summer by Miss WiXom, the young sister of District Inspector R. F. l.. WiXom, who is pupil of Thatcher Academy. The faithful attention of Miss Wixom to small but important details required patience and persistence; but the de- tails secured will enable much more efficient work to be done in this ter ritory or state in controlling the cod ling moth in the future. Special ob- seTvations made. by Dr. Morrill, in Graham county. with the assistance of the district inspector, Mir. WiXom, showed that more than twenty per cent of the windfalls contained live worms of the codling moth; thus in .dicating the desirability of keeping the windfal,s closely cleaned up. by the use of hogs or otherwise.
 Leaving Greenlee county the doctor proceeded on horseback through the Blue canyon and the Apache national