THE STRAWBERRY MARCH 1907 



have a law making it necessary for every- 

 body to keep his particular area as free 

 from insects and fungous diseases as 

 modern methods make it possible to do. 

 Every man who has a garden or an or- 

 chard should practice spraying for his own 

 and the public's welfare. There is a 

 spraying outfit for every need — from the 

 power sprayers for large field and orchard 

 operations to the knapsack sprayer for the 

 family garden; and there is some insect- 

 icide or scalecide or fungicide for practi- 

 cally every enemy of plants. 



AND though we say that all should 

 spray, and trust to nature to do noth- 

 ing ill the way of taking off these enemies, 

 yet it is gratifying to know that nature 

 works hand in hand with us in this direc- 

 tion. In preserving a balance nature has 

 wonderful laws of compensation which 

 she enforces with consummate efficiency. 

 In his address before the New York 

 meeting referred to above, Prof. P. J. 

 Parrott, entomologist of the New York 

 (Geneva) Station, said an encouraging 

 word to the fruitmen on this subject. 

 Speaking of the San Jose scale, he de- 

 clared that it was probable that the insect 

 will be less troublesome in years to come 

 because of the fight made against the pest, 

 and also because natural enemies will 

 appear which will help hold it in check. 

 He cited a few other insects to show that 

 this is probable. In California, where 

 the scale first appeared in this country, 

 the growers now pay little attention to it. 

 The wheat midge, which was so destruc- 

 tive a number of years ago, has had its 

 day, and is hardly thought of now. The 

 potato beetle is not so destructive as it 

 was for a short time after its advent. 

 The parasite which preys upon the scale 

 is at work in New York, and with intelli- 

 gent work on the part of the growers, 

 there is no reason why the insect cannot 

 be held in check. But, he added, those 

 who don't fight the insect will lose out. 

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An Object Lesson in Spraying 



By Louis Bregger 



1DO not know that I can give any 

 great results from my own spraying, 

 in that I have not done it as thorough- 

 ly as is recommended and as should be 

 done. My own experience has shown first, 

 that it has paid, and second, that it would 

 have paid more had I been more thorough. 

 The great trouble with me, as with other 

 fruit men around me, is that we are trying 

 to carry on a little stock farming, raise 

 general farm (grain) crops, and grow fruit 

 at the same time, with the result that none 

 of these three lines is well done. Taking 

 spraying — when it is time to do this, there 

 also are a lot of other things to be done, 

 and with help as scarce as it has been, the 

 result may be ima-^ined. "Get out of 

 some one or other of these lines and attend 

 to fruit," will be urged. Well, that is what 

 some of us are doing, but we are in the 



transition stage. Personally, I am going 

 into fruit gradually, and dropping other 

 crops as fast as I can. 



There is more spraying being done in 

 our vicinity every year and the work is 

 more thorough. Perhaps no greater in- 

 centive has been given in recent years than 

 by a very striking object lesson given us 

 by D. W. Wadsworth, who, two years ago 

 purchased a farm in this vicinity, or rather 

 a portion of a farm containing a large ap- 

 ple orchard. There are thirty acres, but 



taking out house, barns, farm yard, etc., 

 and allowing for vacant places in the or- 

 chard, there are about thirteen acres in 

 orchard, or nearly four hundred trees. 

 This orchard had been neglected for years, 

 little if any spraying having been done. 

 Mr. Wadsworth also trimmed the trees 

 and cultivated, but it was his systematic 

 and very thorough spraying and the con- 

 sequent results that drew general attention 

 to this orchard. 



There were very few apples in Mich- 



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