Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1918-05-23
CONDITION OF
YOUR FRUIT GRO


hearing the exaggerated reports
= your frost G.2.age, IS the experienS
OF C. Jo2 IN DaViSe, entomology
and DirectE S Manager OF the Mort
: western Re- Spray Companies, VIII
: visited in F-yette last week, accon
s. panied by c. II. Muirhead, Manage
: of the Rex Company at Wenatchet
Washington.
.Messrs. Muirhead and DaVise mad
il an investigation of the orchard dis
r tricts of southern Idaho, in compan
with Frank E. secley. Manager Q
the local Rex Organization. This i
Mr.. Muirheads fist visit to tn.
section, and lie is very much impress
3 ed with the development and orchart
= prospects, comig as he docs from ont
of the premier orchard stricts 0
the world. When he tells US that oul
district is wonderful and hes won
dorful prospects, providing our PEG
, pie keep up enthusiasm, and ust
!, proper methods, we cannot help but
feel it a compliment to our district.
j Mr.. DaVise is giving especial at
tention to some Of the past problems
that are at this time, giving us more
or less concern.
The recent attack ON the prune
trees by the brown mite offers moth
4 snS alarming in me,hoas Of control,
4 you thoroughly understand the pest
ana go after it, as is necessary If
you hope to control q fruit pest Of
any kind. Years when we have had
the pleasure Of such a mild winter,
we must expect to work little more
carefully, and harder to hold our in
sect pests under ccntrol. Mild win
tors always means healthy pests, and
at the same time, presents US with
the fact that We may not aaye uni
form results from the use Of the
same spray materials which we have
used in the past, and especially is
this true as applied to the brown
mite. Ordinary control of this pest
being the use of lime sulphur solu-
ton in the dormant spray ON the
eggs OF this pest, where a Year like
this has allowed more or less trans
lorri4ng OF pests from their original
host plants onto our orchard fruits.
If you recognize the condition, you
should resort to remedial measures
at once, if you cannot yourself recog-
niza the true condition infested by |
pests, the growers Of this district
should avail themselves of Mr.. See
ley's assistance, who is thoroughly
and uapable to handle any
Of the ordinary ppests and through
the research department conducted
by the Rex Organization, is in touch
with conditions in all the fruit pro
1ucing sections of the u. s.
The ideal spray for brown mite
and aphls conlrol in your district,
$ the Distillate Oil Emulsion, which
It this time, should DO used at four
,ailcns to one pint of BBlack Leaf
40, in 200 gallons OF water. This
should net be used after
goes above 95, if so,
'ou are liable to more or less in
ury. This combination can be used
With Arsenate of Lead, sprays.
| find the growers are not paying
he attention to the aphis control
Which they should. Many have told
1o their orchards were entirely free,
nd yet I'm inspection has shown
hey have trees thoroughly infested,
ONE even to the point of where
he leaves are completely cuIled, in
'hich case control by spraying for
20 per cent efficiency is physical
npossibility.
| wish to call the growers atten--
on to the fact that you have a
ingus developing here that lis look
d upon very lightly at this time,
nd yet, if not checked will cause
ou as much, if not more damage
IAN any other pest, and that is
e Apple Powdery Mi ldcw." 1t Is
lsily recognized by tho grayish
hite substance which manifests it
If On the tips Of the twigs. The
ngus is easily controlled, and the
'eparation which is used most sue ,
ssfully is the sulphur preparation,
I'd of these, the ordinary CONNER
al lime-sulphur solution has proved
o most satisfactory in the Wenat-
zee districts, where several series al
experiments have bean conduct W
by Mr.. D. F. Fisher, Assistant f.
ant Pathologist, Fruit Districts q'
yestigaticn, U. S. D. A.. The solu-- ~
IN has excellent protective powers, % %
d sufficient causticity to destroy 70
cess infections. or
This material should be used, one m
lion to so gallons CT water, and m
application made. il possible, late fe
the afternoon, so rs not to re- Isl
We the direct and intense sunlight. at