No. 4.] FRUIT GROWING. 121 



Mr. Willard. By using machines, of which we have 

 twenty-five now. Our machine is about like an inverted 

 umbrella on an axle. We jar the tree, and the bugs fall 

 on the inverted umbrella. Ours is nine feet across. It is 

 light in color, and you can readily see the insects upon it. 

 We take a broom and brush them down to the point of the 

 umbrella into a tin box and at the end of the row we empty 

 them into a fire box. One man will run that machine 

 around about seven or eight hundred trees in a day, and it 

 would take two men with a sheet. I do not know as this is 

 the best way, but it is the way we do it. 



Mr. Searle. How often do you have to "bug" them? 



Mr. Willard. That depends a great deal on the con- 

 ditions. If the weather is cold, we " bug" every day for 

 the first week and every other day the next week. If the 

 weather is warm, so that the insects are active, we would 

 perhaps have to run it two weeks every day. We run it 

 right through the day. Some of our neighbors run it right 

 through the week, Sunday and all. 



Mr. Stratton. I have several plum trees, and last year 

 they bore very full and seemed to be doing well, until just 

 before they were ripe a little black spot started on each 

 plum, and the plums decayed and we got almost no plums. 



Mr. Willard. If the case were mine, I should advocate 

 spraying the trees with Bordeaux mixture after the blossom- 

 ing period had passed and the plums had set. I think a 

 great mistake is made in spraying at the wrong time, — 

 when trees are in bloom. 



Mr. Hale. The speaker seems to think we differ some- 

 what on the matter of the danger from the San Jose scale. 

 He probably gathered that from what I said this morning. 

 I said I did not believe the San Jose scale would ever do 

 the damage to our apple industry that the codling moth has, 

 and I do not believe it, for the reason that the codling: moth 

 has been working for years and years, and has given us 

 anywhere from seventy-five to ninety per cent of damaged 

 fruit year in and year out. The codling moth will not kill 

 your apple tree, and the San Jose scale will ; and, from the 

 fact that it will kill your trees, you must look out for it. I 

 am with the speaker heart and hand on this question. 



