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The Grand Prize, 

 the highest award, 

 bestowed upon Ghirardelli's 

 Ground Chocolate by the 

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 San Francisco 1915, is an 

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Pests that Demand Immediate Control 



By LeRoy Childs, Hood River Experiment Station 



THKHE are several insect pests and 

 plant diseases of our different 

 orchard crops that can only be satis- 

 factorily controlled by spraying before 

 the foliage starts. The following sug- 

 gestions are offered in controlling the 

 more important pests of different fruit 

 trees by early spraying: 



Successful spraying depends upon 

 taking advantage of the critical period 

 in the life history of insect pest or 

 plant disease almost entirely, and if 

 the oi)portunity alforcied is not taken 

 advantage of during tliis usually very 

 limited critical period, efforts made too 

 early or too late are largely wasted. 

 Spontaneous appearances of extremely 

 damaging insect pests and plant dis- 

 eases are usually (piite rare. For tlie 



most part the trouble increases from 

 year to year, ultimately resulting in 

 severe losses unless precautionary 

 measures are undertaken. During these 

 periods of increase tlie grower should 

 familiarize himself with the troubles 

 that should be expected the following 

 year and put into practice the observa- 

 tions that he has made. Many factors, 

 such as altitude, temperature and 

 weather conditions make sweeping 

 recommendations for tlie timing of 

 sprays inipossijjle, and the development 

 or retarding of plant or insect growth 

 is fargely dependent upon these factors. 

 Cirowers should know their individual 

 variances and put tliem into practice. 



Control of Pests of Peach. — The 

 peacti orcliards in the valley are sub- 



ject to several diseases and insects, 

 control of which can be accomplished 

 by spraying immediately with lime- 

 suli)hur solution. These are peach-leaf 

 curl, San Jose scale and the peach 

 worm. In Hood Hiver the more severe 

 of these troubles is the leaf curl, and 

 in most localities the spray is almost 

 necessary for the production of a good 

 crop. Lime-sulphur applied at this 

 time will prove of some benefit in con- 

 trolling California peach blight, a dis- 

 ease which produces a gummy exuda- 

 tion on the twigs, ultimately killing 

 them. For the complete control of this 

 disease it is necessary to spray both 

 in the fall before tlie rainy season sets 

 in and again in the spring before the 

 buds burst. 



The best all-round application for 

 peach at this time of the year is lime- 

 sulphur, as it acts not only as an in- 

 secticide, destroying the scale and 

 liibernating peach worm, but also a 

 very effective fungicide. The material 

 sliould be used at winter strength, that 

 is, 1 to 10 of water. Boredaux C-C-oO 

 will satisfactorily control the leaf curl, 

 but will not be effective in destroying 

 the scale or the ijeach worm. When 

 spraying the peaches do not overlook 

 the other deciduous trees, cherries, 

 plums, apricots, etc., for they are all 

 very agreeable food plants of San Jose 

 scale and if neglected will serve as 

 very effective breeding centers for fur- 

 ther infestations. 



Control of Pests of Pear.— Of the 

 several insect pests of the pear there 

 are only tliree or four that can be satis- 

 factorily controlled by spraying at this 

 time of the year. These are the pear- 



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