The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-02-09
horticultural Schools Well At
tended &

The four, two-day horticultural
.ohonIs held at Prosser. Kenne-
sG S;nI white Bluffs and Benton
T;t1 we're reasonably well attend
ed ' Those attending the meetings
IN practically every place COM
vented upon the fact that many
nnnnle who could have well af-
erded to attend were not present.
A. l. nearly always true, those
mho needed help the most did not
aMttend the meetings and an at
4amnt will be made another year
- zach more of this class.
The largest attendance at any
- meeting was at Kennewick,
there being 105 attending the at
tarnoon session of the first day.
The second largest attendance was
- prosser, where S5 were at the
..,orninp session the first day. The
White Bluffs school had an at
tendance of 48 practically thru
o,,t the first day. The largest at
tendance at the Benton City school
was 26. The total number of diff
farant persons attending was 315,
total attendance of S61 for the
four schools counting the attend
ance for each half day school. =
Mr.. Armstrong; discussion, es--
necially facts which he presented
n regard to mechanical injury in
nicking and packing and this will
undoubtedly start some follow-up
work along this line. Several have
.1roodv asked for help.
DIR. Magness's discussion on
snrav residue removal was very
GOOD. DIR. Magness went back into
the history of the problem. He
brought out the fact that Ameri-
can and German chemists have
emphasized the Importance of cut
Zinc, down the lead content, rather
than the arsenic. Washing of the
apple has probably come to stay
and at present time. under good
management, is costing the grower
hut very little and in some cases
nothing due to more efficient me-
thods Of handling developments.
Prof. Morris's discussion on or
chard fertilization drew consider
able comment and his advice to re-
main open minded in problems of
orchard fertilization and to secure
sound advice before spending
much money for fertilizer, was ex-
ceptionally good. His discussion
on asparagus and other truck
crops awakened considerable in
terest along this line.
Mr.. Lanes discussion on wire
worm control gave considerable
life history which is fundamental
in working out control measures
and which was not common in
formation. Mr.. Lanes recommend
alton of wheat, alfalfa for A or 5
years. potatoes for two years.
should be Of considerable help to
growers. He is still working on
the problem of an economical me-
thod of complete control of the
average farm condition. He be-
lieves that carbon bi sulphide may
be used economically on limited
areas.
Mr.. Spuler's outline of present
work on codling moth control was
very good. He pointed out that
while considerable work was being
done all over the world on the con.
troll Of this pest, that nothing very
new has been developed. Lead ar
senate when properly used is a
good control measure with cider
traps. offering some possibilities
for control measures.
Harry Jensen, of the Prosse1
Branch Experiment station empha.
sized the need of greater care in
seed selection. He pointed out the
values of certified seed and in
creased yields which may be ex-
pected from it's use. He also brot
out some valuable information or
irrigation of potatoes.
Mr.. Karr's talk on orchard heat
ing was of particular interest to
many this year because of the
heavy damage done last year. He
emphasized the need of enough
heaters to hold temperature up
and the special need of apparatus
to insure the growing knowing
when to start heating operations
On the whole we feel that these
schools have brought to the atten-
ton of the growers many new an
giles of problems which should be
of considerable assistance to them