AMERICAN 
FRUIT AND VEGETABLE JOURNAL. 
May. tooo. 
frosts. The airnonnceiuent tjuit such Con- 
ditions exist tens made by se\ eral Of The 
most conservative and best-informed fruit 
ieen. after a i borough mid en refill lures, 1- 
i rn i Ion. 
CnmiCT nDd fried I’rtilt IVn'kcr. 
Til,- Riverside I'.rs- mid H,>rtle1iltuii*t 
rims reviews tltelr orange and iemon pn<- 
ilmlion: file sttljjtheuiji m May '“I la»l 
vi'.ir were mi, MO boxes. In 1MM* the 
shipments te May I w.ic I.HS.TUT ottt lures 
nil,] lemons both 1 lie ipill shipments 
were 1U7.77I box i'ii. adding I he ol'idige 
and lemon shipment" 'in rear, we have 
ever ),300,fl0n I'O.U'a, or over IbO.OUO more 
than two years ago oi er 4int earhmdf. 
Peculiar. Indeed, li.D* heeu tin lielm-vlor 
of the hist irost. )i has rut in places sup- 
posed to Lie frost-free Slid skipped many 
other places where ii has lull'll wont to 
linger One report* sniic brattdlM-s neor 
the ground without Injury, while high lu 
Hit* iree the ruin Is complete. J'ACIIJc Tree 
and Vine, San Jose, L’nl. 
Riverside has shipped nearly car- 
lo, ids of oranges and IkNi of lemons for tin* 
season. This makes ft total of about 1,- 
.'400,0(10 boxes of oi unites for the shipping 
period. 
—The Whittier California paper stales 
tliuf Truman Berry. of East VYhltller. late- 
ly pieked 10,460 pounds of tl rel-ehiHS 
leiumis from 2UU six ye, -ii -old trees, show- 
lug what ca re and plenty of water will do. 
frost lifts dune cron) .Imjiflgo Iri Oregon, 
M iislilngioii mid Callfnnilu, according to 
reeenl reports. 
lied 
In. Cal.. ilalniN lo have '•hipped 
i ‘•*7 boxes iif onnifc.<« find Jj{,ii3u box, 1 " 
lemons for the sem-un 
Cannery News. 
New CunilericD are lep 
ill Kjioxlmrii, iVnahaiy. 
poll, Mornvln mid I.e Hoy 
\leri. Willoughby mid i. 
i’ort Townsend, 
Portland U n,j 
Med being built 
Hu uiilton, Ark 
New Voilt; Van 
lulouvllle, Ohio; 
Wft»h,; Knslporl, Me; 
lingerie Mregoii; TiyetltUSCli, 
’ luadii Waterloo amt Montrose, Iowa; 
Soil ITnlrie, \vi>.; ijnlnri mid Dowaiiiuc, 
Mh h., mill Ouiney, 11) 
w ill In the 
oods upon n 
The news Hint I 'uRfuriiin 
euinilig 'left son piielc tuiin. d 
'.lie huger t Ini ii evil 1 , Oftliae no sell- 
on- iilm'iii io any, in,, interested In |hu we|- 
' ,,f tin- . ,, filling' Pehi" i >y on the cast. 
1 -heuld ih. onipoi „j n„. California 
'.line lies In I hr Ottllug koiUmhi greatly 
• vee, d that Of liny pivviou* yem, i be ..in- 
i''" ,1 ” 1 1 '' ■" large ;i f t,, seriously 
I he lien. end f,, r (.'.lllfortllu'ii 
b I" all. Illy large, find while 
••Idly new timikru will be np.-ued, the 
' I "I them u Inereftslng In 
llls '■'""•"y a •- lei ii mil western mnr- 
" 1 ' apable of biking euro of a large 
the California output while 
•pe their populnrli, m growing rap. 
Ibe ol|, put of C.tllfOrtjlii emin.-d 
■Ollld 1 1 1 1 V • 1o be v, 
low ii ) 
i Miitied 
i 
ir Id 
idly, 
tnili 
the r 
J 
IK lll( tif 
I HIM I'; 
-lions 
'miner and 
Tree Pests* 
"APPhE SCAB.” 
l or Anierh-.in 1 ru»t and VeprtaUlc* 
| |„'ir rn gi-eul deal or prai deal llllel* -» 
l„ in., n.aitei' of spraying fruit 
poi'Uilly apple UWv f" I" event the dl»ft' 
lr ,,„ . Hiniek- of fie- fungus known ft- -'I' 
pi. scub " ndfl itnninlie do. • rm- 
ilmn u -e Uj»m the fulintfi* "t Hie trees |hn» 
u pun Hi. feim though i he Injuries to tlm 
latter arc scrloii- iiiough. ltd* fungus i- 
I), ile. 1 1 the p. lm ii.al enemy cmiitmtled by 
ihe use of Hi.wlmux mixture' ">• far as 
,i|i|'l.- ins- ate I'oiieenied, n ini as this I un- 
glelde is l In- main one used a beeome* ns 
to know ns lunch as possible ahum the fun- 
g us and how II cud he host and most uco- 
iioiiiieolly diMtroy. 'l 
II Inis liei-n supposed thai the spores 
pa - -ei.| the whiter at least 1o a inns.der- 
jllll extetil. upon the twigs, and Dull Iheie- 
foie i hoy nnglh he kilh'd l),v spraying curly 
ill till.- spring luff a re Ha funis upon The 
ll.pdd would at fhl» • bin- bo nitun marc 
easily .prayed upon Ilio twigs because the 
leu 1 1 an.- mu Hi Hi" way. anti out spore 
then killed would count fbf immornuB Une* 
at a Ifi tor dub' Itul does lids early iippll- 
eftlloii prev.-nt tile ik v I'li'pioent of Hie full 
gun? Tliet'i! F every reason to suppose it 
would do so if it it true that ll» winter 
quarter." are really uu rhe tree. If lid* Is 
not Hue the Spray stream is "lint ftluih'SBly 
lulu Hi, an- without eiTrel, exi' |h upon tin* 
loo slender pur* • of the umpriercr, and ns 
gyuiini.-ile exoi'ci-e for Mie operutnr, 
It Mums io be pretty wall deuioUStrab'il 
Him lb. ruripiS l- pniotleally normmii 
diirlae the winter oh the fullcri leavis Tbo 
prool of | 111 * N uni yul poNjHvi'ly made, 
xpnaliiag n "W ni ibe usniil orchard eniidl- 
Hop-. f|, a f,- s , Insimurs fho living hm- 
gil" I las been finiml on Ibe hurk rif vuilig 
Hmh» In wlnii'i'. bar -ohl un afler ialie 
fnl Ionising Hull ii now bee, .me, renxij', 1 - 
iilily e.ornin Ii do, but exi.t in winter un 
'lie tree. Sonic pl lelk'lll < X porlllieill > 
iinnle Willi (id- point wpeelalh lii mind 
"eeiu- ,1 Hu to "how that tin appileailoti ,, r 
iJjc I in It* in t hr lri*n 9 lip ImmI:- 
toWoll ii* wllJiout vjjIhiv 
I here I", lew evi l . nothing mo,,., re, lam 
Ihmi tluil llicv me In eerlaln .,, 1 < an 
ttliundauc of spore- in Hu- air nud 
arh hudit/g in, Imoent ,,u i|„. 
lenv". ju.i ;,m soon a s fliej a pul 
■■prliig Ihere u ll, er, lore no Hme 
lha| 
young 
in llie 
to be 
1 1 
J, l.o " n, -‘ 1111 , '' i “ bn, is open 
1, . " Mill 
ll eml er work e. Ian piiidllftllve of re 
n ‘ “ 1,11 rU ' b nuery nob. The . 
dliioiu * nrj g-Temly itom yea,- .„. 
;- 0 l '""K fa» •or-, bin 1, 1- - 
"• ‘"‘.V ttohi the flm,||iaili„n „i 
Bold, nix 
w Hh n im| her, mi. re 
ft- ynniig leave. - how 
tlmn at any ( d|,er 
fid x I uro is, one 1 inn 
important Ju*l line, | 
their gri e 11 surf, 
tlmn, 
WhOU "lyeohlgU' n.lMlI, lUldMIUl (he 
r-,n!« . ‘ ^ ' 1,1,1 I" '’'I' hill" filOgns It 
can "■* tui.f" ■•„w||y foiighi 
boatCD. Mnv Ibis lie soon nconinpllhhed! 
T. J. BniTlll. 
I'niversily of Illinois, April 15M)0. 
ILLINOIS SAN JOSE SCALE LAW EN- 
FORCED. 
I ,.r Aineri, an I TO I' ninl Vegetable .Tmtr- 
nnl. 
I he pill lie In general and UorflruHui'UHs 
Ii, pnrtiwihii - will be Interested to know 
Hill tin San Jose Seale lain was reeuntl.y 
le-red In Cldeago, by llie proseeul Ion, on 
1 in pin 1 11 t of .111 iUnpeetoi'. of a Chicago 
nee dealei and Chat I" - WHS folllid giillly 
ami lined for Jell vol’lug nursery sloek in 
(be slate wiilond a copy id certlfU'iiie ,.| 
inspe. I ion altacluil I lie Sb.ek ill ipiesilon 
seems io have oolite from an old Indiana 
n ii'M iy liought up 011 speculation with u 
view of elt'iulng ll mil. 
Ihe ease Was I I'led 111 .lllstlee lloglllll.l's 
court and pi-.. seemed by (lie mate's nin,r- 
10 '.v ill Clink eoDldv. As lids is Ihe tlisl 
pruseeiitloii under llie law ll will serve as 
a precedent in nili. i enses and ilio»e dl«- 
p use. I to evade the law should lake warn 
10#. 
if* pn It ci'civye rs who reali/a' the wide- 
spread desl ruction uf fruit idamallous by 
Hu 1 San .lose seale in some of ihe eastern 
slates, before tin- ilarigir was known, nre 
1 oiigratulatltiB themselves on the very 
eurnph-le nrra ngenientR of Slate E n tumult i- 
gisi l.'iirbes fur the en refill, elfoetlve and 
ImpuiUal euforcemeut of the law. 
L, R. Uryanl. 
Ni* v Illinu i" Slalc* Iliii'Ileilltural Society. 
Using Pure Sulphate for Sptaylug. 
Hr Maher, uf MnssachusettB, vvlio Is 
criii’rldeift'd authority on hnilicullura! mai 
lei's, uses pure slllpllllle of copper Itlstelpl 
111 l.iyiftli-aux Iiilxlnie. to which be a,l,l« two 
or three ounces t|n> eopper siilpliali! m 
en, Ii liny gallons of water Fur poiieh and 
plum nr Ollier trees With tender fnlinge Hie 
t wn-nuilie mix lure Is used, while fur ap- 
ple. pear and ollur trees ilmt enti endure 
ii. lie u-.-s llie slrnncei- mixture He even 
'piny- Ihe dead leaves under llie trues In 
ally spline, before |]l,' filling,- spirts' 111 
tu der 10 kill all egg« or spores. 
SPRAYING FOR C0DL1N MOTH 
I'|"I. V ll, Hem, III In," till" f„ SUV III the 
' number of Viek's Magazine: 
H pia.vlng fur Hie ■ mlliii moth 1* ""1 
don, early In Ihe Henson there la lltlle nr 
tn 11 11 all. Tim best of all lime- 
is Ju-l filler (lie petals n»vc fallen from 
In; appl.- and pear , Tlmn Hie calyx 
. 11,1 l, l'T | -ht Iiosilltlll ami T III- lll'Bl'Ill' Ol 
M,n ' 11,1 ''""‘ly >•" dropped into H \s 
' '■ V'uiig irnl, |„. K | IIH pr((Wi „ (l , ..., lv v 
H: mil lira ll j mills I' 
d'wiwaid 1 1 mu ,i |„ about Impoimlhle 
.at', 1 " 1 " 1 ''", 1 -" folft'e, I in - Id" I lie eft l.s v 
v, , 111 Dine- ', I 
, " r ‘ ll " 1 '' «»r» /!*' Tlo- lb HI brood 
irni?'", 1 ' l "" 1 ati) vvlien- Dll 
, - 1,1 lor they III. let, the 
MHU> farv-B, „,,,| l|(lll| wn IlM , 
SPRAGUE CANNING 
MACHINERY GO. 
Sain Office: 
M2 Maaonlc Temple, 
Chicago, III 
l-aclory; Hooprsfiin, III. 
