The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-04-13
SAY KENOSHA IS PLAGUE SPOT
Scores Of Property Owners Notified to
Spray Trees and Shrubs at Once and
IF Orders are Not Carried Out the
Work Will Be Done by State.

The state department of agriculture
expects to complete the San Jose scale
survey of Kenosha this afternoon. AS
reported previously in the Evening
News, members Of the orchard and nur-
sery inspection staff have been hunting
this willy pest on the trees and shrubs
of the city for several months. The
work is in charge of Prof. J. G. San
ders, state entomologist, and he has
been assisted by T. 7. Hack and S. B.
Fracker.
Mr.. Fracker, who is here now, reports
a total of over zone hundred and
fifty infested lots, with nearly a
thousand trees and shrubs. The own
ers of all such property have been no
titled that they must spray or destroy
the trees attacked.
Under the state law, at least ten days
are granted in which to do this, but
Prof. Sanders is permitting property
owners to wait until just before foliage
appears. After the trees "leaf out, "
the strong spray is injurious to them.
An owner of infested trees may
either spray or destroy them himself
or he may request the entomologist to
arrange to have it done. It is urged
that the decision may be made prompt
ly in order to avoid Misunderstanding
A thoroughly reliable landscape gar
dener, Oscar Hoefer, 664 Lyman ave-
nue., Kenosha, has been secured to look
after the work and it will be done I'M
der the direction of the state experts.
Those who wish may either arrange
with Mr. Hoefer direct or send the
blank furnished them to Prof. Sanders
at Madison, preferably the latter.
A severe penalty is attached to ne
glect or refusal to obey the inspectors
orders and all costs in such cases are
assessed against the property and in
Guided in the tax roll.
To date, many property owners have
been rather negligent in looking after
this matter. Spraying will begin next
week and will probably be completed
in good time before the leaves appear,
unless the property owners themselves
delay the work.
Mr. Fracker says GA great many
people still seem to be ignorant of the
nature of San Jose scale. It is a min
ute insect which multiplies with alarm.
ing rapidity on apple, plum, pear,
mountain ash, and other trees, and on
roses, currant bushes, dogwood, etc.,
soon encrusting the bark. It weakens
the tree or shrub by sucking the sap
and in time will kill the hardest of its
hosts. Birds and the wind transport
the young scale insects from place to
place so that they spread rapidly.
"Illinois is probably responsible for
the introduction of the pest into Ke-
nosha for that state has large num-
Der of infested parks and orchards. In
this city the scale is to be found on
almost all of the older host plants with
In the infested area. Thit area begins
on Durkee avenue and runs northwest
to the Jeffrey automobile works. Lit
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Elizabeth street or north of Middle
street except in a small district on the
north side near the lake,
No oil er city in Wisconsin is so Sc
verely attacked as Kenosha and the in
spectors hope by cleaning it out here,
to protect other sections of the state.
IF she spraying done this spring is con-
tinued for few years the infestation
will either be eradicated or greatly re-
duced.
This scale should not be confused
with the one which appears on soft
naples and has killed many of them.
The "coStony maple scale" is widely
distributed in Wisconsin and should be
combatted with kerosene emulsion.
The chemicals preferred for the San
Jose scale, on the other hand, are
either commercial concentrated lime
sulphur solution or "Sealecide. /" The
| former is diluted by water to eight or
nine times it's original volume; the lat
ter to twelve times its volume.