The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1918-07-18
WARNS LYNDEN FARMERS NOT
TO BUY PEDLERS' REMEDIES

LyHuen IdTmCTS are WdTHtu dS-
ainst buying remedies from pedlers
in a bulletin issued this week by w.
A. Linklater, superintendent of the
Western Washington Experiment
Station. The venders of various mar
velous poultry remedies who recent
ly victimized the Lyndcn district are
especially scored.
Says Mr.. Linklater:
From time to time products are
offered for sale by companies or
agents, claimed to control plant or
animal insect pests or diseases, which
are sold, under misrepresentation and
which will not fulfill the claims made
for them. Two years ago agents went
thru this territory selling Miller's
Blight Remedy, claimed to be posi-
tive cure for blight, scale and all in
sect life that infests fruit trees. This
Blight Remedy or Tree Serum, as it
was called, was applied by boring a
hole into the trunk of the tree, par
TALLY filling the hole and plugging it
up. This Blight Remedy had posi-
lively no merit. 1t should be remem-
bered that plant diseases and insects
cannot be controlled by injecting any
chemicals into the trunk of the tree.
"For several seasons agents have
been in the field in Western Wash
ington selling poultry disinfectants.
The price asked by the agent has u.s.
ually been about three times the
price that disinfectants could be
bought for from local dealers. In
some cases at least the agent has
claimed that merely spraying the dis
infectant over the poultry at night
while on the -oosts would effectively
r.d not only the fowls but the poul-
try house of lice, mites and similar
parasites. This is a misrepresenta-
ton. No disinfectant at present on
the market will rid poultry and poul-
try buildings of lice, mites, etc, when
applied in this manner. A letter just
to hand from a correspondent living
at Brush Prairie states that an agent
had recently called at his farm,
claiming to be sent out by the Wash
/ ington Poultry Association, Seattle,
tc teach farmers the Hogan system
of judging poultry. According to the
correspondent the agents particular
business, however, was to sell poul-
try disinfectant which he claimed
would destroy lice and mites by
merely spraying the poultry on the
roosts. This is the same nature OF
report that has been sent to us by
County Agricultural Agents of What
com, Snohomish, Thurston and Grays
Harbor counties. Farmers who have
been induced thru Misrepresentation
to buy this or any other product
: should ask assistance of the Coun'
ty Attorney to bring the salesman to
justice.
For the past five seasons careful
experiments looking to the control OF
the root maggot pest have been car
ried on at this station. During this
time forty or more treatments have
been tested. One of these is CARGO
which has been widely advertised anc
which some users claim has giver
them good results in controlling ol
killing the root maggot. At this sta
tion we have not found this prepara
ton to have any particular merit il
the control of this pest. However
tho. Standard Chemical Company OF
Tacoma. manufacturers of CARGO, say
ina circular: The Western Washing
ton Experiment Station, Puyallup, II
monthly Bulletin Vol. II, No. IL, fol
March 1915. treats interestingly OF
spraving and reports tests with Car
go. which is first in the list of roo
maggot experiments OF thirty OF
forty treatments reported in, the bul
,etin mentioned, CARGO was printed
FIRST in the list, not because II gave
the best results but because II wa'
tested on Experimental Plot No. /
The manufacturers in this circulal
eem to wish the reader to under
and that CARGO was the most effec
i've treatment used in these expert
iments, which was not true"