Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-16

wit TEACH hoaricuLruR1
AND TRUCK FARMING
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Ames. Aug Ito help put apple
growing ana truck farming in Iowa on
= profitable basis. Iowa State College
has Just engaged one Of the best ex-
perts in the country. Robert, 8. Her
rick. Of Colorado. He WIN arrive this
month and Join the stan Of the ex-
tension department. He will relate
himself at once to the Orchard prob-
,lsm in Iowa. organising apple packing
schools in the fruit districts to teach
growers how to market their product
properly. Later he will be available
for lectures and demonstrations at
fairs, Institutes and horticultural meet.
ings, and tller. he will Join the college
short courses rs lecturer. In the early
spring he viii work wherever there 10
a demand for him. giving instruction.
and assistance in the proper pruning
and spraying Of orchards, and encouf-
aging generally the developing OF
truck gardening wherever there IL OPP
.portunity for it.
1--WE believe we have q man who
will be Of great value to the horti-
cultural interests Of the state" said
Director w. !. Kennedy Of the extern
sion department. Prof 8. A. Beach.
head Of the horticultural department:
went after the best fruit and garden
man available and he found him in
the greatest fruit and garden district
in the country, the district around
Grand junction and Delta. Colo. Mr.:
Herrick grew up In that fruit sdistricts
he was trained for horticulture In
Colorado Agricultural College. and he
has been in the field there since he
graduated four years ago"
Fruit Growing in 0isfavor.
Horticulture in lows needs just such
cooperation as the college is planning
to give it. Ioa went rtaher heavily
into orchard planting some twenty
years ago without much knowledge OF
orcharding methods. There were many
failures as result and fruit growing
came into disfavor. Laursn5 Greene,
experimentalist at the college, says
that thousands and thousands OF trees
are chopped down every year. The
census statistics show q gradual de-
crease in the acreage in fruit. The
average yield per acre Of standing or
chards is very low. the apples har-
vested being worth only about $23 per
acre in a good year because most fruit
growers do not care for their trees
properly. Yet Iowa has many orchards
that are successful az commercial en-.
terprises.
But these successful men prune.
cultivate and spray. To teach Iowa
horticulturalists generally to- do that
and. also, how to market. IL the pres
ent purpose Of the college.
Cooling Moth Costly.
According 70 Prof 9. A. Beach, head
Of the horticultural work at Iowa
State College, the cooling moth costs
Iowa apple growers more money than
any other one pest, and yet as whole
they are doing very little about 1t.
Most Of the orchards in Iowa are
afflicted with the codling moth" says
r. l. Webster. assistant entomolosist
at the college experiment station. who
has Just returned from an extensive
study Of the pest in several sections
Of the state. "It is very severe in
southwestern: Iowa where the yield Of
marketable apples is going to be very
much cut down by Its ravages." .,
bad as this pest il. however. apple
growers can control 1t when they try.
They are doing 1t In some orchards
that visited and In those orchards
there will be profitable yield Of fruit
this year. BY spraying the codling
may be enectuaily driven out. Or
chards that are sprayed stand in
marked contrast to those that are not;
they are clean and the fruit is good
and abundant; In the others the fruit
is wormy and unit for sale
The codling moth II responsible for
the worms usually found in Iowa
grown apples The moth appears at
blossoming time In the spring and
lays the eggs on fruit or leaves from
which the apple worms hatch IN about
a week. They bei3n to eat their way
into the fruit at once growing as they
eat and getting their full size in twen-
ty or thirty days. There is no race
suicide among codlinx moths and as
soon as the worm gets out It weaves
cocoon and starts on that wonderful
process Of changing from q worm to
q moth. Before tho summer Is very
far gone, second brood appears to do
more damage and to make sure that
still another generation will be on
hand early the next season TO bother
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