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Fruit growers do not regret that they started a tree removal program, but many 

 regret that they did not start their program soon enough, 



— V^, D, Y/eeks 



"ORPHAHS" 



Have you some "orphans" in your orchard? "Orphans"? VJhat do you mean "orphajis", 

 in my orchard? 



I mean those trees which you can only half take care of. That makes them an 

 "orphan", doesn't it? 



It also makes them a nice place for insects to find a safe spot to continue 

 their destructive ways. That tree beside the \iall which you can't possibly spray or 

 dust vrell vdth that new air-blast machine affords a fine place for egg-laying by 

 plum curculio. There's nothing to atop its development and the wall makes a swell 

 place to liibernate. Bud moth can get along very vrell in just half a tree and pro- 

 duce enough new moths each summer to reinfest the remainder of the orchard. 



There's no better place than in an "orphan" tree for codling moth to get a merry 

 start in your orchard. Just enough spray reaches the back side of the tree to keep 

 scab from knocking off all the leaves and apples, so there's a fine chance for 

 codling moth as well as the others I've mentioned to get a head start. 



And what a perfect setup for maggot. No one ever thinks of going under that 

 side of the tree to pick up the drops, 



The list could be extended a great deal further, but instead of taking time to 

 read more, vfhy don't you take the time to mark those "orphan" trees and make sure that 

 they, or the objects vj-hich make them "orphans", are removed. 



Back in the old days when -vre went under each tree with a handgun at the end of 

 a long hose, vre didn't have "orphan" trees in our orchard; vre could reach them all. 



The situation is different novir. Our air-blast machines of various types and 

 even the hydraulic rigs vYith masts or fixed guns are not capable of reaching all 

 sides of trees backed up against stone walls or other orchard hazards. 



Consider it carefullyl Do you get enough fruj.t — good fruit, that is, — from 

 those "orphan" trees to warrant the trouble they cause? I doubt it. 



~ Ellsvrarth H, l/heeler 

 Extension Entpraologist 



YO U'LL CRY ■i^ilEN YOU READ THIS 



The red-banded leaf roller is suffering from granulosis. 



Professor u , J, Schoene and W, V, Sibold of the Virginia Agricultural 

 Experiment Station have reported the presence of a virus disease amongst the larvae 

 of the red-banded leaf roller in Virginia, In 1950, third brood larvae showed as 

 much as 7Uf> disease. Only a few of the early larvae are affected, but the disease 

 seems to become increasingly evident as the summer and fall months go by. 



