PRUNE PESTS 



1743 



Fig. 1. Brown Day Moth In Its Various Stages. 



parasites attached to the bodies. The Remedies 



eggs are also destroyed in large numbers Lj^e-sulphur is not very efficient 



by small parasites. E. O. Essig ^^^j^^^ ^^^^ .^^^^^^ ^^^ ^j^^^,^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^ 



CiTEUs Red Spider. See Apple Pests ^^^^^^ ^ ^^^.^^^ p^^^ .^ ^JH ^^ ^e^essary 



under Red Spider. ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^p^ ^^^^ .^ ^^^^^ ^ ^^^ 



Clover Mite. See Clover Pests. Distillate-oil Emulsion Spray, which is 



Common Cutworm. See Cabbage Pests. ^^^^ ^^ ^^jj^^^. 



European Fruit Lecanium ^^^ ^^j^,. 12 gals. 



Lecanium corni Bouche Fish Oil Soap 30 lbs. 



H F Wilson Distillate oil (28° Baume) 20 gals. 



In Oregon we have found this pest on The fish oil soap is made as follows: 



prune only, and how bad a pest it may get water 6 gals. 



to be Is hard to say. It also attacks Lye 2 lbs. 



. , „ , Fish oil 1 Vi gals. 



peaches and apricots as well as a large 



number of non-fruit trees. In California The soap ingredients should be boiled 



it is known as the brown apricot scale, for about two hours and produce about 40 



because it seriously attacks apricot trees. pounds of soap. Use this at the rate of 



The adult females are brownish in color six per cent distillate emulsion by taking 



with a few black markings, convex in 5% gallons of the concentrated emulsion 



shape and oftentimes covered with a and 44V2 gallons of water. Add one 



white powdery secretion. They measure pound of caustic soda to soften the water, 



about one-eighth inch in length, are In mixing the original solution it should 



slightly less than that in width and are be driven through a force pump and back 



raised about one-sixty-fourth of an inch. into the containing vessel in the same 



(See Fig. 1.) manner as kerosene emulsion is mixed. 



