The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1912-06-27
INSPECTOR CUTS
INFECTED TREES
CITY TREES FORM SERIOUS MENACE
Prof. Lawrence Works on Plans for EX-
pertinent Station Which viii Be Of
Great Benefit to Community.

To rid the valley of the menace Of
the San Jose scale. which is seriously
infesting a number Of abandoned trees
iG the city, County Fruit Inspector ".
| h. Lawrence is enforcing the law and
causing the infected trees to be cut
down and destroyed. In the western
edge of the city are number of old
| trees on vacant lots that were not
proprely sprayed in accordance with
| the ordinance and the notices sent out
| by Inspector Lawrence, calling atten-
/ tiOn to the state law governing dis
eased trees.
Birds and strong wind carry toe
/ tiny insects very easily and they will
| be spread 10 the nearby orchards Il not
eradieated. Where trees are not badly
infected they will be sprayed now and
again in the fall, says Prof. Law
renee, land thus we can get rid of the
scale.
The apples of the trees infected are
practically all ruined. The Inspector
had some specimens taken from the
trees that were covered with young
yellow scale that were ON the outer
surface ready to be spread TO other
trees and fruit, while the blue spotch-
es showing beneath the skin was evi-
deuce of the work of those that had
burrowed into the apple.
Prof. Lawrence is now working on
three different plans that will be of
benefit to the valley. Hood River has
always stood for the best in the fruit
world, he declares, "and we always
want to keep one jump ahead of the
rest of the fruit districts. The in
spector is endeavoring to secure a top
Ographical survey by the United States
government of the district and the es-
tablishing here of a state experiment
station. Both will be of value to the
district, he says.
A great deal of the experimental
work of the Oregon Agricultural Col
ege at Corvallis is conducted here in
the Hood River valley. The heads of
the departments of that institution are
known to be favorable to the plan, and
when a concerted action is taken by
the local citizenship, in asking for the
station it will undoubtedly be granted.
1t will not only give the growers of the
valley the benefit of more extended
work toward the eradication and pre-
vention of diseases and pests, but will
aid all northwestern fruit districts.
The local fruit inspecor will cooper
ate with the pomological Office OF the
, United States Department Of Agricul-
ture again this year in The experiments
to determine the comparative keeping
lquality of about 30 varieties OF north
! western apples. Last year about l5C
boxes of fruit were used in conducting
this work. The apples were secured
, from lueal representative orchards and
the growers were guaranteed the pay
ment for them by the Fellowship As
sociation, which had not disorganized
} at that time. A few days ago Prof.
? Lawrence received through the North
western Fruit Exchange a check for
$233 to pay for the fruit used in last
( years experiments, which as is known,
determined the loss of apples caused
in storage from Hnthracnose.
( Between GOO and 800 boxes of fruit
will be used this year in following up
the experiments. According to the
. plans of the local pathologst, Prof.
{ Lawrence, and the government epxeri-
: ments, il is probable that the govern
ment will establish an experiment
S office here within year or two and the
$ storage work will be done in local cold
3 storage plants.