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A C 1 F I C T R !• 1-, A N 1 ) \' I N E 



Pear and Cherry Slug's 



The cherry and pear trees are now in 

 their full foliage, and the destructive 

 pear and cherry slugs are beginning to 

 get in their destructive work. These 

 pests sometimes attack trees in such 

 numbers as to almost defoliate them, 

 seriously injuring the trees and ruining 

 the crops. The adult of these slugs is 

 one of the saw files, the female of which 

 lavs her eggs on the surface of the leaves 

 early in the spring. These eggs hatch 

 out in about ten days and the little slugs 

 ars at first light colored, but they soon 

 cover themselves witli a dark secretion. 

 When the larvae are full grown they are 

 about half an inch in length. The upper 

 surface of the leaves alone is attacked, 

 and the insects are more easily reached 

 on this account. The remedies are the 

 paris green spray, one pound to 200 gal- 

 lons of water, as used forthe codlinmoth 

 on apples, common road dust or air 

 slacked lime. The slugs are covered 

 with a mucous secretion and the applica- 

 tion of dry dust adheres to this and dries 

 them up. The lime possesses caustic as 

 well as drying qualities, but perhaps the 

 road dust is as effective as any remedy, 

 while being the least costly and the eas- 

 iest applie<l. 



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Lime. Coal Tar and Whale-Oil 

 Soap 



Probably the best preventive usi-.l today 

 is a compound of the following ingrrd- 

 ients ; 



Un8lake<l lime 50 pounds 



Coal tar 1-5 gallots 



Whale-oil soap 12 pounds 



To make the compound, slake the lime 

 and tar together, adding enough water to 

 make a moderately thick whitew'ash. 

 Dissolvi' the soap with hot water and add 

 this to the lime solution, adding enough 

 water to make a thick, paste-like white- 

 wash. For economy, some line sandy 

 soil may be added to make ([uantity, but 

 not too nuich, otherwise the compound 

 will become too brittle when dry, and 

 will lose its purpose. Paris green and 

 sulphur have been added to the above 

 compound, but experience has shown 

 that no results have been brought about 

 by this adililion, so that the money sprnt 

 is oidy wasted. 



I may mention Iutc that the mounding 

 process — the piling of earth around the 

 tree — has been tried, but owing to the 

 different habits of our species, it does not 

 work as well here as it does in the East- 

 ern Stat<-s. All preventives should be 

 used with the destructive methods and 

 applied as directe<l above. Trees must 

 be treated every year as long as this pest 

 appears in a locality, otherwise it will 

 never be kept in reasonable check so as 

 to give the grower peace. . . . .. 



1 here \\ ill he a very iieuvy Ijeel crop 

 this year, and the factories are preparing 

 for the longest run in their history. The 

 season has been an especially favorable 

 one for this crop. Rains have been 

 abundant, have fallen at very satisfac- 

 tory intervals, and the copious March 

 rains came to cap the climax of a good 

 season. Some of the crop in Ventura 

 county was put in in November and Dec- 

 ember last. This will be ready for slic- 

 ing in .lune, and it is stated that the fac- 

 tory will be started up in July. The 

 sugar farmers, in company with all other 

 branches of producers, seem destined to 

 have the best season they have had in 

 years, if not the best in the history of 

 their industrv. 



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 vear will product' fruit the next season. 

 They should then be pruned out to give 

 the other new canes a cliance to bear. 



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