El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-18
HORTICULTURAL
SOCIETY HERE
Valley Fruit Growers to Co.
operate With State and
Federal Officials.

A meeting Of the horticulturists OF
the FL Paso valley will be held in the
chamber of commerce next Monday
afternoon for the purpose Of forming
a County Horticultural association.
The purpose of the association is
to cooperate with the state and fed
eral tree and plant inspection bureaus.
and to direct the work of an inspector
in the FL Paso valley. This inspector will
be appointed by the state and the L.
:. department OF agriculture, clothed
with power from both. but his salary
viii have to be arranged for by
fruit growers, the chamber of COM
merce OF the county He will be en-
ployed about a fourth Of his time at
500 per month, II was estimated by
z L Tanner, state inspector, who
IS now here going through the valley
and inspecting the orchards.
Lebanon. Chairman
The meeting for the organization o.
the County Horticultural society Will
be held at the call OF Geo. R. LeBarOn,
chairman OF the agricultural commit
tee Of the chamber of commerce. Mr.
LeBaron and Messrs. Marx L. Cadwal-
lader. Same Gillett and q. A. Martin,
of this committee. met Monday after
noon with county demonstration agent
A G. Graham and Mr.. Tanner and dis
cussed the matter.
"El Paso valley is the greatest loca-
serted Mr. Tanner, because your eli
mate is such that decreases to which the
pear is subject, do not thrive well here.
I do not believe there is any blight
in your valley, for blight thrives where
the climate is moist and it does not
act as the cases ! have seen in the
valley where the affected limbs have
the appearance of having been af-
fected by blight found but few OF
these. probably five or six trees in
the entire valley and 1 have inspected
so per cent Of your orchards here.
Blight is a fungus growth that gets
into the sap of the tree and is the
only fungus growth of this sort 1t
starts by getting into the buds on the
ends OF the limbs and then works
down Sometimes it gets into a pear
tree through a cut in the trunk, but
Other Tree Diseases.
However. there are other diseases
that should be combated here-and,
while they are not bad, you should
have anF INSPECTOR here. to prevent in
tying up your shipments. You have
the San Jose scale. the cOddling moth
and the brown mite. You also have
the plum curcullio. which affects the
plum trees It is now time TO spray
Tor the san Jose scale. OF which there
is quite a bit in the valley 1t is time
TO spray for this about the time the
trees begin to bud. If these things
tor is liable TO find a pear or so af-
fected in a carload shipped into some
other state some of these days. and
either burn the entire shipment or
send II back TO Ell Paso. Then a quar-
antlne would be put on These things
are not hard to stamp out and a
County Horticultural board should
have charge OF the work, Il order to
back up the inspector"
Number of Trees Affected.
County demonstration agent Gra-
ham, discussing the report Of blight on
valley pears, said There are num-
Der Of trees in the valley that look as
II affected by blight, but I sent sam |
pies last year TO Washington 10 the |
agricultural department and to Berk- I
ley university in California, and their !
plant experts could not find any para !
sites They could not tell me what the
disease was, but they said they did /
not believe it was blight It is the |
same thing that has affected some
trees in the Mesilla valley. which the |
County Horticultural society of Dona |
Ana county has pronounced blight.
There are several things besides blight /
that could affect the limbs of trees as I
those in the valley have been affected. i
IL /. Cadwallader traced one of these /
causes the other day to gopher, !
which had cut and killed the roots OF I
the tree and caused il to die. Unusu- |
ally hot weather sometimes affects the I
tender limbs much the same as blight.
It takes a moist climate for blight to /
thrive in it"