September :«», 1905 



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News from the College of Agricul- 

 ture of the University of California is 

 that effective remedies have been 

 found for the "brown apricot" and the 

 "San Jose" scale, the two most de- 

 structive insect pests that infest Cali- 

 fornia orchards. After spending 

 months of intense study and spraying 

 over 1000 acres of trees in experiment- 

 ing. Professor H, .J. Quayle of said col- 



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lege announces that his efforts have 

 been entirely successful, and that 

 these two pests that have worked such 

 serious damage to California's fruit 

 crop in the past are on the road to ex- 

 termination. 



The brown apricot scale was un- 

 known in California until 1891, al- 

 though it had baffled all attempts at 

 its extermination in eastern orchards. 

 Since that time it has spread to an 

 alarming extent in the Golden State, 

 becoming more damaging that the 

 San Jose scale, which was at that time 

 attacking California orchards. The 

 field of its operations was at first 

 limited to a small area in northern 

 California, but three years ago it made 

 its appearance in the San Joaquin 

 valley in the west central part of the 

 state, and since that time has wrought 

 destruction all over the commun- 

 wealth. Although it is called t.ie 

 "brown apricot," the pest thrives best 

 on prunes, and it is upon this tree 

 that it does its most serious injury. 



Professor Quayle has been conduct- 

 ing the fight against this pest for the 

 agricultural experiment station, and 

 has at the same time perfected the 

 remedy for the San Jose scale. His 

 last year's work was principally in 

 Kings County, in the immediate vi- 

 cinity of Hanford, whither the pest 

 had particularly appeared in the past 

 two years. The San Jose scale attacks 

 a great variety of trees, but its princi- 

 pal inroads have been upon the pear 

 and apple crops of the Kings County 

 section of the state. 



As the result of his last twelve 

 months' work just ended, Professor 

 Quayle .announces that he has de- 

 finitely determined the proper pro- 

 portions for the mixing of the lime- 

 sulphur-salt wash, the remedy com- 

 monly employed in fighting the San 

 Jose scale, and has also decided that 

 this remedy is wholly inadequate in 

 combating the "brown apricot" pest. 

 As a remedy for the last-named insect 

 he recommends a compounding of 

 resin, caustic soda, fish oil and water, 

 whose great insecticidal value he has 

 proved. 



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A contagious disease that will 

 spread among the swarms of grasshop- 

 pers that have wrought so much havoc 

 with California's crops for the past 

 ten years and kill off the pest without 

 the aid of man's devices is the hope 

 of the entomologists at the University 

 of California, who are experimenting 

 with the problem with satisfying suc- 



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