April 14, 1906 



HORTICULTURE 



49 ', 



CALIFORNIA NOTES. 



The California orchardists' worst 

 foe, commonly known as the codlin 

 moth, against which a war of exterm- 

 ination has been waged for the past 

 two years, is to be the object of a new 

 attack, and the locality selected for 

 the experiment is the Pajaro Valley, 

 the leading apple and berry producing 

 section of California. The Pajaro Val- 

 ley Orchardists' Association has just 

 now secured enough money to carry 

 on the work and will be assisted in 

 their labors by some of the leading 

 entomologists of the state, among 

 them W. H. Volock of the University 

 of California. To a reporter this week 

 Professor Volock said: "The object of 

 last year's work was to ascertain 

 whether arsenate of lead would con- 

 trol and keep down the codlin moth. 

 It was successful elsewhere, so we de- 

 cided to try it here. Records were 

 taken by counting the number of 

 blighted apples that came from trees 

 that were sprayed and trees that were 

 not sprayed. A marked difference 

 was shown. 



"The percentage was as low as 1 

 per cent, in some cases among sprayed 

 trees, while checked trees that had 

 not been sprayed showed 15 per cent, 

 of bad fruit. The worms were not 

 generally so bad last year, but in the 

 orchards of a section where the worms 

 were very bad there was a loss of 40 

 per cent. 



"But it remains to be shown how 

 many applications of this poison are 

 necessary and when they should be 

 applied; and also which are the most 

 important sprayings, the earlier or the 

 late." 



Horticulturists representative of 

 San Mateo county. Cal.. have prepared 

 a contribution for the trade press, and 

 given it to all San Francisco corre- 

 spondents of publications devoted to 

 the interests of growers of the coun- 

 try. It reads as follows: 



"A leading editorial this week in 

 The San Francisco Chronicle pleased 

 the growers exceedingly. It takes ex- 

 ception to a change inaugurated sev- 

 eral weeks ago by Willis T. Moore, 

 chief of the Weather Bureau, wherein 

 his subordinates were directed to 

 cease collecting and giving out the 

 accustomed weekly crop and horticul- 

 tural reports. The bureau has a large 

 corps of observers, all intelligent men, 

 scattered in all parts of the State, and 

 the crop reports rendered by them for 

 years have been of real value. They 

 have been regularly published in 

 county seat papers throughout the 

 State and have been a means by which 

 producers could keep themselves fairly 

 well informed of the general con- 

 dition and progress of crops and germ- 

 ination peculiar to the commonwealth. 

 We are aware that the collection of 

 crop reports is not one of the duties 

 imposed on the Weather Bureau by 

 law, but as it costs nothing except a 

 little time once a week in the central 

 office to compile the reports and a 

 trifle additional for printing, we want 

 them continued. It has been done for 

 years, and has been a great public 

 convenience. But Mr. Moore has 

 stopped their issuance, and for 'no 

 good reason,' says the Chronicle, 'the 

 bad reason being that an impudent 

 bureaucrat intrusted with the power to 

 be contrary and hateful has taken a 

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