The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-04-19
Too Much to Use for Syr-
up or Bread, According
to Inquisitive People
YEAST CAKES, TOO,
BY THE POUND
Beery Concoction, How
ever is Perfectly Legit-
itimate in This Case

"We're just going to let 'em
drink themselves to DEATH" said
j. w. Vickers today when comment
as made upon his purchase of two
barrels of malt and sufficient yeast
to ferment quite a concoction
some two thousand gallons or
more. Two thousand gallons did
seem quite sizeable ''batch" and
further particulars were asked for.
1t appears that Mr.. Vickers is go
ing to give the new method of
worm control a thoro tryout on
the Highlands, Fruit Co. orchards
this year.
The plan is simple. Containers
filled with the beery concoction
are placed in the orchards. The
moths are attracted by the odor,
imbibe, become "pifflicated," ap-
parently, and drown. Experiments
have shown that a large percent
age of the moths are destroyed in
this manner. Mr.. Vickers has ar
ranged for two hundred dozen Of
the special containers and will, in
addition, fill thousands of ordinary
tin cans with the bait.
His campaign for worm control
in the company's tracts this year
contain three principal features.
In the first place the rough bark
on all the trees has been scraped
down to two inches below the
ground surface. The worms lodge
under the bark and run as high as
eighty to the tree. This scraping Of
the bark will remove their shelter.
This work has been done at a cost
of about ten cents per tree.
The moth traps-two hundred
dozen of them-are to be so placed
that no moth will have to travel
distance greater than cne tree to
another to reach the bait. These
traps are to be baited with a mix
ture of malt syrup, yeast and other
ingredients, principally water,
which make for the moths a very
effective jag producer, and exper-
iments conducted during the past
two seasons indicate that the
moths either know nothing Of the
Eighteenth Amendment or follow
the common practice of ignoring
it, as this bait attracts them in
large numbers, and once they dive
into it they are unable to get out.
Burlap bands-two and a half
tons of them-will be used, band
to be placed around each leader
branch of the trees. These bands
furnish shelter for any worm de-
scending the tree after spending
the necessary period inside an ap-
pie. By removing and replacing
these bands and destroying worms
found under them once in each ten
day period, large percentage Of
the second brood is eliminated.
The company expects to start
this seasons thinning later than
usual in order to catch most Of
the first brood worms while in the
apple. Special care will be exer-
cised in this work with a view to
taking off and destroying all
wormstung apples, thereby reduc-
ing the second brood to a mini
mum and making it possible to go
into the latter part of the season
with a very few second brood
worms in the orchards.
During the moth season the or
chards will be laid out in blocks
of suitable size to enable one man
to take care of a block. Each man
will be equired to go over his block
once every six days, removing
moths from the traps, rebaiting.
and examining bands and taking
off every apple which shows a
sting.
This method, it is believed, viii
greatly increase the percentage of
extra fancy apples, simplify the
problem of spray residue. and last
but not least, enable us to 90 into
next season with a clean orchard.
continued Mr.. Vickers.