08 15. C. Entojiological Society. 



times. The various members of the Executive of the Horticultural Association, 

 through their interest in the fruit-growing problems of the Province, have added 

 mucli to our entomological knowledge. 



As a result of their labours, in 3895 the Horticultural Society and Fruit-growers' 

 .\ssociation of British CoUimliia published a " Pest and Remed.v Supplement " as 

 adopted by a committee appointed at an annual meeting of the Society. This 

 committee consisted of Messrs, G. W. Henry. Hatzlc ; Thos. Cunningham. New 

 Westminster ; Michael Baker. Victoria ; R. M. Palmer, Victoria ; G, Hadwen, 

 Duncan ; E. Ilutcherson, Ladner ; and T. A. Sharpe, Agassiz ; and it was under the 

 direction of these gentlemen that the "Supplement" was issued. 



The first officers of the Horticultural Society were J, M. Browning. Thos. 

 Cunningham. G. W. Henry, and A. H. B. McGowan. In the six succeeding years 

 a number of officers were appointed to the Executive of the Society, among them 

 being W, J. Harris, Tom Wilson, John Kirkland. Wni. Knight, T, G. Earle. and 

 J. 11. Anderson. 



In 1899 and 1901 two reports by Mr. R. M. Palmer, Inspector of Fruit Pests, 

 were issued, containing remedies and suggestions recommended for adoption h.v 

 farmers, fruit-growers, and gardeners of the Province, prepared for the Provincial 

 Board of Horticulture, 



In 1907, and reissued again in 1908, Mr. Thomas Cunningham, as In.specfor of 

 Fruit Pests, published a " Spraying Bulletin " on " Orchard Cleansing," 



In 1908 Mr. J. R. Anderson, at the time Deputy Minister of Agriculture, 

 published Bulletin No, 24 from the Department of Agriculture of British Columbia, 

 and he titled his bulletin " Farmers' Foes and their Remedies," In presenting 

 this bulletin to the agriculturists of the Province, Mr. Anderson states in the 

 introduction : " The purpose of the present bulletin is to afford a description in a 

 succinct form of those pests which are prevalent, reported, or are likely to be 

 introduced in the Province, and their natural enemies, with the remedies prescribed 

 by competent authorities or which have been found by experience to be the most 

 effective." This bulletin represents careful and painstaking construction and to-day 

 is the most useful issue we have relative to in.sect pests of the Province. 



Touching the sub.i'ect of artificial control measures and spraying, some interesting 

 rec-ords can be gleaned from private .lournals and diaries. Few published records 

 appear to be available on the number of machines and to what extent spraying 

 for insect pests was practised by the fruit-growers. Consequently, while the follow- 

 ing records appear to stand, it is just possible that omissions have occurred to 

 some extent. 



In 1885 Mr. Thomas Cunningham bought a 4r)-gallou spray-pump from the 

 Field Spra.v Pump Company of New York. Mr. William Clarkson. of New 

 Westminster, also sprayed for aphis and apple-scab with a similar hand-pump of 

 his own purchase in the SO's, In 188S Mr. W. J. Brandrith, of Ladner, owned a 

 " stirrup " spray-pump. This was of cast iron with a wrought-iron plunger, and 

 was only capable of throwing a spray some 12 feet or so, Mr. Brandrith in 1890 

 again arranged for the purchase and sale of six 5-gallon bucket Spramotor hand- 

 ]iumps to various fruit-growers in the Lower Fraser Valley. These pumps cost, laid 

 down, $30 each. In 1892 he again bought a No. 2 40-gallon Spramotor for his 

 own use. 



Bordeaux was in use between the years 188.5 and 1890 at the 4-4-50 formula 

 and whale-oil soap, which latter was imported from the Standard Soap Company 

 of San Francisco, Cal„ at the time. 



In the eai'ly OO's Mr. T. A. Sharpe. Superintendent of the Dominion Experi- 

 mental Farm, Agassiz, had a Spramotor hand-pump sent out from London, Ontario, 

 for use on the Government Farm. As far as can be gathered, at least six more 

 spray-pumps from the same firm came into the Fraser Valley and on to Vancouver 

 Island about the same time. Mr. Tom Wilson, on his farm near Harrison, in the 

 Fraser Valley, liought a Jlyers spra.v-pump in 1892 and fitted it to a barrel. He 



