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THE CANADIAN HORTIC U LT U JlIST 



January, 191 1 



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The San Jose Scale 



Pro<. C. E. Subtra, Stillwater, Oldakoma 



Duiiug the last two or three years Ihe 

 Oklahoma Agricultural Kxpenuieiit. Sta- 

 tion has been experimenting with a natural 

 enemy of the San Jose fcicale. This enemy 

 is a disease in the nature of a fungous 

 growth, in southern latitudes It has ueen 

 used even to a commercial extent for con- 

 trolling the scale, but bii account of the 

 neatlier conditions of the State it has 

 been supposed that such a disease would 

 either fail to propagate itself during the 

 summer or be entirely too delicate to witli- 

 stand the low winter ttoiporaturo. Uare- 

 ful experimentation, however, has proved 

 tho disease is very hardy and callable of 

 propagation to a very beneficial extent in 

 infested orchards. 



Oftentimes diseases of a serious nature 

 are introduced and scattered by insects 

 and other agencies in general. This disease, 

 however, is not capable of doing any dam- 

 age tc anything except the San Jose Scale 

 and allied forms. Its use in orchards, 

 groves, and public parks, as shown by the 

 experiments, will be of a very great ad- 

 vantage in checking the local spread of the 

 San Jose Scale. 



It is of the same nature as the chinch 

 bug disease but its appearance on infected 

 insects is not nearly as conspicuous as the 

 latter. Tc an ordinary observer it appears 

 to be no more than the mold which is 

 commonly present on damp bread a few 

 days old. It will live and propagate on 

 bread and is apparently just as harmless 

 to the higher animal life, but the micro- 

 scopic examination of an infected San Jcse 

 Scale reveals it to be fatal to the latter. 



The experiments have been so conclusive 

 in regard to the practicability of checking 

 the San Jose Scale witk this disease that 

 the station is now propagating it to an 

 extent sufficient to enable it to supply 

 gratis all interested citizens of this State 

 who request it. 



The party requesting it must first sub- 

 mit specimens of scale to the station for 

 identilication. If the submitted speci- 

 mens prove to be the San Jose Scale the 

 station will send a small package by mail. 



The fungus is grown on a jelly-like ma- 

 terial which is of amber cclor in appear- 

 ance. The color of the fungus or aisease 

 IS white. This material may become more 

 or less disarranged in transit through the 

 mail, but its vitality will not Tie lessened. 

 Upon its receipt the applicant pastes small 

 portions of it to his infested trees. The 

 jelly-like substance adheres nicely. The 

 fungus gradually scatters frcm one tree to 

 another of its own accord, but accom- 

 plishes better results if artificially well 

 scattered when first applied. 



Returns From Orchards 



A statement has been issued by I. F. 

 Metcalf, the District Kepresentative of the 

 Ontario Department of Agriculture at 

 Collingwood, Ont., showing the cost of the 

 work done ip the demonstration orchards 

 conducted in that district this year and 

 their returns. A large part of the ex- 

 pense was for pruning, of which the or- 

 chards were in great need. This item of 

 expense should be divided over a number 

 of years. 



Mr. W. Hamilton's orchard at Colling- 

 wood realized $405.45, as against a total 

 expense of $144.20. showing a net profit 

 of $261.20. Fifty trees owned by Jno. 

 Osborne, at Dunedin, produced twenty-two 

 and a half barrels of Duchess apples, which 

 sold for $56.25, eighty-two barrels of fall 

 and winter apples wnich sold for $246, and 

 fifteen and half barrels of culls which 

 brought $9.10, or a total of $311.35. The 



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