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SAN FRANCISCO 

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ture in Napa County's exhibit at the 

 Panama-Pacific Exposition. 



From the very start the entire prun- 

 ings of this Franquette stoclv have been 

 eagerly bought by prominent planters 

 and nurserymen, and thus they are be- 

 ing distributed over the state and Napa 

 County in particular, where the indus- 

 try bids fair to assume very large pro- 

 portions. Certainly California growers 

 of walnuts are to be congratulated on 

 getting well started on such a marvel- 

 ous producer. By such selection this 

 state must ultimately outdo Europe in 

 the production of walnuts, just as we 

 have outdone Spain in the production 

 of raisins and some other products. 



When Mr. Wheeler decided to go ex- 

 tensively into walnut growing, he made 

 a close study of every phase of the 

 industry. His son, Rollo C. Wheeler, 

 also became greatly interested, and the 

 two visited all the large groves in the 

 state and studied every available au- 

 thority. Now that a large acreage of 

 the trees are coming into full bearing a 

 visitor will find every preparation made 

 for caring for the crop. 



Near the winery is a building 80 feet 

 long, one half 30 feet wide and the 

 other half 16 feet wide, the whole being 

 26 feet high. This is equipped with 

 every modern device for handling the 

 nuts, which are washed, sorted, dried 

 and bleached. There are six tiers of 

 wire mesh tilting drying trays, each of 

 one ton capacity. These are arranged 

 to dump automatically, and thus the 

 nuts drop from one tray to the other 

 in the process of drying. The plant has 

 a capacity of 50 tons, and was installed 

 by C. C. Sidwell, of Los Angeles, an 

 expert in that line. 



As the walnut industry has developed 

 during the past few years, there have 

 been many visitors drawn to Zinfandel 



to inspect Mr. \Vheeler's grove and 

 plant. 



When walnut trees come into bearing 

 the nuts may be handled at light ex- 

 pense and command good prices; thus, 

 it is safe to predict that Mr. Wheeler 

 will soon find that branch of his varied 

 farm work the most profitable and de- 

 sirable of all the activities at Zinfandel. 



Use the Garden Hose on Insects 

 \\Tiere city water pressure is avail- 

 able, the garden hose often affords the 

 easiest way of checking the ravages of 

 certain insects, states Dr. A. L. Melan- 

 der. Entomologist of the Washington 

 Experiment Station. Many people have 

 the idea that strong poisons are re- 

 quired in controlling bugs, but this is 

 not necessarily so. A stream of water 

 delivered through a garden hose will 

 most effectively serve in washing off 

 and maiming such insects as aphids or 

 plant lice, leaf hoppers, red spiders, 

 young scale insects, the elm-hark louse, 

 the cottony maple scale, caterpillars, 

 slugs, bud-worm, as well as spores of 

 fungus diseases that have found lodg- 

 ment on the plants. Not only is this 

 treatment serviceable, but in many 

 cases it will give better results than can 

 be had by insecticides applied by the 

 small spray pump. The use of certain 

 sprays about houses is often attended 

 by staining of painted woodwork or by 

 the persistence of disagreeable odors, 

 which are obviated by the water cure. 

 Even under some garden or orchard 

 conditions, where water piped under 

 pressure is not available, it may be most 

 advantageous to combat certain insects 

 with plain water applied in this case 

 by a pressure spray pump through a 

 plain-bored nozzle. Red spiders, cur- 

 rant worms and aphids call for such a 

 recommendation, especially just before 

 the fruit is to be picked, when spray 



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compounds might leave a taint. When 

 aphids have curled the leaves they can- 

 not be reached by the usual spraying 

 but they must be touched by the poison 

 to be killed. A stream of water is much 

 more likely to wash out the aphis fam- 

 ily from curled leaves than a misty 

 spray is to penetrate into their midst. 

 Many of these insects obtain their food 

 by sucking, and sit with their beak 

 deeply inserted into the plant tissue. 

 When struck with a forceful stream the 

 beak is cracked, and such insects, even 

 if not killed outright, are unable to feed 

 again. City shade trees besmeared with 

 honey-dew from aphids moreover re- 

 ceive an advantageous cleaning from 

 the hosing. — Washington State Agricul- 

 tural College Bulletin. 



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