DISCUSSION ON CURCULIO. 459 
Prof. Lugger: You can find them quite late in the summer. 
The insects appear at such long intervals there may be some of the 
old ones about. 
Mr. Crane: Is there any remedy for the plum pocket? 
Prof. Lugger: That can be controlled with Bordeaux 
mixture. Some of those diseases are becoming so prevalent that 
it is difficult to control them. Last year nearly the whole southern 
part of Europe was affected, nearly all the cherry trees were de- 
stroyed by a disease that caused a bitter flavor in the cherries. 
That disease is unusual. 
Mr. Crane: About half of my plums rotted last year; is there 
any way to prevent it? 
Prof. Lugger: Is it a disease, or is it caused by insects? I 
cannot say without investigating the plums. How does the trouble 
show itself? 
Mr. Crane: . It is a disease. 
Prof. Lugger: That can be controlled largely by the use of 
Bordeaux mixture. It is an excellent remedy for a great many dis- 
eases, and it is so cheap and it can be applied so readily that it is 
a very useful remedy. By adding a little Paris green you can kill 
out insects at the same time. It will never do any harm. The tree 
will bear more fruit, and it will be stronger and better on account 
of such treatment. 
THE FRUIT REGION OF THE BIG BEND OF THE 
COLUMBIA. 
W. W. PENDERGAST, HUTCHINSON. 
Pallowing the Columbia a hundred miles up from Wenatchee, the first 
Great Northern station on the west side of the river, to Barry, at the mouth 
of Grand Coulee, you describe an irregular semi-circle, known as the “Big 
Bend country.’’ For most of this distance there is on each side of the river 
a narrow ribbon of land, also very irregular and varying in width from a 
few rods to two or three miles. This first bench lies at an elevation of about 
one hundred feet above the river. The soil is gravel intermixed with sand 
and disintegrated basalt. It will produce but little without irrigation for 
the first twenty or thirty miles, but the Wenatchee, Entitat:and one or two 
other large streams, having their sources in the Cascades, make water plen- 
tiful and easily accessible from the west. There is but little opportunity to 
irrigate on the east side, as there are no Cascades to furnish the water sup- 
ply. ‘Some fruit of several species is grown without artificial watering. 
' .< It is on the west side, however, for a distance of eight miles'up and down 
the river from Wenatchee, the place where the foot-hills retreat two or three 
miles, leaving, perhaps, ten thousand acres for the horticulturist to revel in, 
that one is astonished at every step by the beauty, the abundance and the 
superb flavor of the glistening ruby, gold and emerald balls that dance and 
beckon to him to come and gaze and eat his fill. 
