Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-01-07
SPRAYING DEMON.
STRATIONS TO Be
IN LOCAL FIELDS
Announcements For Dates {
Places on Vashon Island
Will be Made Later

Report of the Horticulture Pro-
.iect committee held in the county
agents office, 41S County-City
building, Seattle, Wednesday, De-
cember Goth, 1920. Those present
were R. Y. Reid, Geo. Eclls, Chas.
Hit, A. j. Linnestead, Oscar Glau-
er, W. j. Baird, j. Il. Stahl, r. N.
Rhodes and A. B. Nystrom.
The program of work and the
92l goals as set by the various
communities was read as follows:
general meetings, IL demonstra-
tons of pruning and spraying, 30
orchards sprayed, 10 acres of ber-
lies.
Since berry growing is coming
TO be one of the important indus
les in the county it was decided
give as much attention to that
IS possible. j. L. Stahl from the
Western Washington Experiment
Station will give several days dur
ing February for this work and
here it is demanded will take up
matter of pruning and graft
dg. To carry out these demon
STATIONS the project leader must
select a place or places where there
may be found all bush fruits in
luding raspberries, loganberries,
lack berries, goose berries, cur
rants and grapes. If pruning Of
trees is wanted there must also be
available one old and one young
tree of the following: apple, pear,
sweet cherry, sour cherry, prune
and possibly peach. If grating
is wanted, then the grating scions
md wax must be available. Dem
onstrations will be scheduled as
follows: Vashon, February LIST;
Des Moines, Sunnydale, February
End; Bellevue, February 3rd; Ken
nydale, February 4th; Kent, Feb
ruary 5th; Maple Valley, February
7th; Issaquah, February 9Th.
The demonstrations in spraying
will consist of having a specialist
actually spray 4 or 5 orchards in
each community and then holding
a demonstration meeting at one of
these orchards. At this meeting
the first grower could receive de-
tailed information about spraying
mixtures; how to mix; when and
how to put it on. Mr.. Rhodes,
horticultural inspector, agreed to
do this work. His itinerary will
probably be in the following or
der; Vashon, Des Moines, Sunny
dale, Kent, Kennydale, Bellevue,
Kirkland, Lake Forest Park. The
work will be done in January and
February. The date of the demon
stration will be set by Mr.. Rhodes
and will conform to the time when
his spraying outfit is in the com
munity. Project leaders will be
given 8 days notice of the exact
date he will be there. The or
chards on which the spraying will
be done must be selected at once
and names of owner should be in
the hands of the project leader
by January 9Th or soon there
after.
Project leaders should bear in
mind that weather conditions may
be such as to greatly delay the
spraying work. Therefore no def
mite schedule can be made at this
time. Your method of letting the
community know about the dem
onstration should be so well work
ed out in advance that you can
get the word around on days
notice. Do not sign up for spray
ing any orchards that are difficult
to get to.
Another matter which should
not be overlooked is that pertain
ing to the cost of work. The only
charge made for the spraying
work will be for the actual mater
ial used and the labor in putting
it on, Orchardists who had Mr..
Rhodes do the work last year
know that it varies in price ac-
cording to the size of the tree
which would be from around ten
cents for the smallest trees up to
as high as fifty or sixty cents for
the largest trees. The average
falling somewhere around twenty
five to thirty cents.