Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1924-08-13
PLANT TO
SAVE The
FRUIT TREE
Herbert & Herbert Company's
Product Is Shipped All
Over the World
IS COLLOlDAL SULPHUR
Saves Trees Without Damag-
ing Fruit-ls New In
dustry Here

"a new product when prOtecls
fruit trees from disease and does not
damage the fruit is being hailed by
fruit growers throughout the coun-
try as a salvation against blight ana
other forms of fruit tree disease,
which in the past has not only rum
ed fruit worth millions of dollars
but destroyed entire orchards. rms
product is being made, shipped and
billed from this city to all parts of
this country and the principal fruit
growing districts of Europe and has
created a sensation wherever used.
The product is known as colloidal
sulphur and Is manufactured by one
of Perth Amboy's newest industries,
Herbert & Herbert, Inc, whose plant
and offices are located at Grant and
Market streets.
For years past the fruit growers
of the country have known the value
of spraying the trees in order to OBJ
tain the best results and to protect
the trees and fruit from the various
forms of blight. For this spraying
sulphur compounds were used and
although good results were obtained
from the various spraying materials
manufactured, they often caused In
jury to foliage and also the fruit.
Realizing that a more satisfactory
substance was necessary for the
snraving of trees, various farming
and fruit growing experimental sta
tions began a. search for this sub
stance.
It was generally recognized that
colloidal sulphur was the best ma
terial but the high cost of manufac-
turing this product prohibited It's
use. It was not until Herbert e. Her.
bert, Inc, discovered a new cheaper
process, which has been patented by
them, that colloidal sulphur was
placed on the market at such price
that the average fruit grower could
afford to use the substance Tor the
spraying of trees.
The first tests made by the nrm
were carried on in the fruit growing
districts of Georgia. The peach tree,
which is the most delicate Of any
tree grown, was decided upon as the
tree best suited for the tests. The
colloidal sulphur manufactured by
the local firm proved satisfactory
treatment at once, it clung to the
trees and unlike other materials of
this kind did not wash off when
heavy rains fell. The trees were
protected against blight and insects
and the fruit proved to be the finest
ever grown. The news soon spread
about the country of the new pro-
duct and requests were received at
the local plant for the product by
which to carry on further tests.
Orders began to come in not only
from this country but from the fruit
growing districts of Europe and to-
day the entire daily output of three
tons Is sold before 1t Is made. The
product can be used as summer
spray and is valuable to the farm
er and fruit growers for this reason.
Ecab, brown rot, leaf curl, red spider,
curculio, aphis and other forms of
disease are controlled by the colloid-
al sulphur applications.
From the rapidity with which the
product has found favor among the
fruit growers and farmers, it Is evil
dent that the capacity of the plant
will have to be increased before next
season and that within the course of
two or three years the company will
have to seek new location for the
plant here as the building and
ground occupied by the present
plant in Grant street will not be
large enough to house the concern
as 1t Is increased in size to meet the
requirements of the fruit growers.
There is a possibility that plants
will be placed in various other Sec
tions OF the country from time to
time to care for the demand in that
immediate fruit growing district.
However, the main plant and officers
of the company will remain in this
city.
The Herbert & Herbert Chemical
Company Is all owned by local capi-
tai, the principal officers being
Herbert Philipp, president, and Her
bert Gillis. secretary.