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codling moth in a given area even in the 

 old, badly infested districts. Certain 

 observations and experiences lead me 

 to this belief. 



As early as 1907, Dr. Melander carried 

 on codling moth work at Wenatchee. 

 He took for his work there that year, 

 an orchard that had been about fifty 

 per cent wormy in lOOG, and by thor- 

 ough combative methods reduced the 

 infestation in that orchard that year to 

 one-tenth of one per cent. It is only 

 a short step from one-tenth of one per 

 cent infestation to extermination, and 

 British Columbia has shown us that 

 that step can be accomplished. If this 

 can be accomplished, on a single or- 

 chard, it can be accomplished in a 

 whole community, if the whole com- 

 munity can be handled in the same way. 

 We are now working on this communi- 

 ty idea on Sunnyslope. A community of 

 about 1400 acres close to Wenatchee. 



In 1918, Sunnyslope was the wormi- 

 est orchard area in the whole Wenat- 

 chee district. This community shipped 

 that year about 400 cars of apples. The 

 damage done by worms was estimated 

 at 20 per cent of the entire crop, which 

 amounted to a loss of about 80 carloads 

 of apples, or a loss in monev of about 

 .$100,000 dollars. Such a loss as this 



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 tried methods of codling moth control. 

 Fortunately, however, we had one good 

 example in Sunnyslope in 1918. During 

 the winter of 1917-18 a certain grower 

 in Sunnyslope asked me if there was 

 anything he could do to get rid of the 

 worms. He felt that he had done every- 

 thing that he possibly could do, but 

 still had suffered a loss from worms of 

 35 per cent for three years straight 

 running. He was becoming discouraged. 

 I promised to give him some special at- 

 tention during the season of 1918 and 

 to see if we could not help him get rid 

 of his worms. His orchard lay on three 

 different slopes. We made it a point 

 to determine spray dates for these dif- 

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 present each time he sprayed to see 

 that his equipment was right and that 

 the spraying was properly done. The 

 consequence was that in 1918 when all 

 of Sunnyslope averaged 20 per cent 

 worm infestation, this man had just 1% 

 worm infestation. 



In the spring of 1919 I called a meet- 

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purpose of discussing the codling moth 

 situation. I emphasized to these grow- 

 ers the fact that the codling moth could 

 be controlled and cited the example of 

 this one particular grower who was 

 present at the meeting to substantiate 

 my statements. I explained to these 

 growers that if, by giving one grower 

 special attention straight through the 

 season, we could help him reduce his 

 worm infestation from 35 per cent to 

 IVj per cent in a year like 1918, I 

 could see no reason why, if we gave 

 each individual in the community the 

 same special attention and could get 

 them all to give us the same coopera- 

 tion why we could not materially re- 

 duce the worm infestation of the whole 

 community. However, there were not 

 sufficient funds available for that kind 

 of service, and if the growers wanted 

 that kind of service it would be neces- 

 sary to raise the funds in the commun- 

 ity. It seemed to me that if we could 

 put a man in that community to give 

 each grower in the community special 

 attention and would be able to reduce 

 the infestation even from 20 per cent 

 down to 19 per cent that it would pay 

 the salary and expenses of the man sev- 

 eral times over, and I felt confident 

 that a very much greater reduction 

 than that could be made. At this meet- 

 ing, the Sunnyslope growers voted to 

 assess themselves $1.00 per acre for the 

 purpose of putting on this extra man, 

 and appointed a committee to collect 

 the fund. The funds were collected 

 and the special man was put on. 



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