THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 19, 
200 
SPRAYING FOR THE TERRAPIN SCALE, i A WARM OPINION OF NURSERYMEN. 
,/. X. II; Mingo Junction, O .—I find a few 
of my peach trees infested with Terrapin 
scale and would ask if it is considered a 
serious pest? It does not seem to be common 
in Ohio, as I find very little mention made 
of it. 1 am waiting for a suitable time to 
spray it with soluble otl, but since discover¬ 
ing it the weather has been cloudy, cold and 
snowing, and am informed that is not favor¬ 
able for spraying for scale. Is this correct? 
It is recommended to prune before spraying 
for scale. Is not this an error? Will not 
the scale be carried from these dismem¬ 
bered twigs back to the parent, or other 
trees, by some of the many means it has for 
being carried, before the scale dies on these 
twigs? 
Ans. —In 1872 this handsome little 
scale, often called the “Terrapin’’ scale, 
from its resemblance to a turtle, was 
discovered on peach trees in Hillsboro, 
Missouri. Since that time it has been 
gradually spreading over the orchards of 
the Atlantic, Middle and Southern 
States. It is not only an enemy of the 
peach, but is found on the plum, apple, 
thorn and various species of maple, 
birch, etc. The branches of peach in¬ 
fested with this scale often have a black, 
sooty appearance due to a dark-colored 
mold or fungus that grows profusely in ' 
the sweet honeydew secreted by the in¬ 
sects themselves. In some instances this 
scale has shown itself a serious pest, and 
in no event should it be allowed to 
spread and increase at will. The nearly 
full-grown females pass the Winter on 
the branches of the trees, and complete 
their growth quickly in the Spring after 
warm weather comes. Each female then 
deposits many eggs in a mass beneath 
her body scale. In Missouri, at least, 
where the life history has been most 
studied, the eggs hatch by the middle of 
June. There is only one generation a 
3 r ear. 
If one is fighting this insect alone it 
is best fought by spraying with a 20 to 
25 per cent kerosene emulsion during 
the dormant period of the tree or with 
a 10 to 15 per cent solution just as the 
eggs begin to hatch. At this time the 
young insects are crawling about over 
the tree, and they are tender and more 
easily killed than later when the body 
becomes harder. As the period of hatch¬ 
ing extends over a month, one subse¬ 
quent spraying, at least, is advisable. A 
whale-oil soap solution, one pound to 
four or five gallons of water, is also 
quite effective if applied at the time when 
the eggs are hatching. Winter spray¬ 
ing for this insect with “soluble oil” or 
lime-sulphur solution will accomplish 
very little unless it is repeated several 
years in succession. Where one is 
spraying every year for the San Jose 
scale with the lime-sulphur solution the 
“Terrapin” scale will also, very prob¬ 
ably, be held in check. 
Trees should, by all means, be pruned 
before they are sprayed for several 
reasons. It is impossible to coat the 
•small fine twigs of a large tree with 
any liquid. Consequently, some scales 
are usually left on the ends of the small 
branches to restock the tree. It is easier 
to spray a well-pruned tree. Moreover, 
it does not take so much solu¬ 
tion to go over the tree; neither does 
it take so much time and labor. 
It is best to burn the branches that are 
pruned off just as soon as possible. 
There is, however, very little danger of 
these insects spreading in the Winter 
because they are then in a dormant, in¬ 
active condition, and are quite certain 
to die before the Spring opens even if 
the branches were left piled until so late 
in the season. glenn w. herrick. 
Apple Pomace.—A year ago last Fall 
we fed one-half bushel daily to 35 cows. 
They never ate nor milked better than at 
that time. We also used some as top-dress¬ 
ing on Timothy sod, and besides this we 
top-dressed a strip with cow manure. This 
year the manure-covered ground doubled the 
yield of the year before and the pomace- 
covered land gave about one-half of the 
yield of the previous year. c. c. w. 
Troy, N. Y. 
II. N.-Y.—This indicates that the pomace 
soured the ground. We would not use it 
without lime. 
In Hope Farm Notes, page 138, you speak 
of the difficulty that attaches to the nurs¬ 
eryman's guaranteeing trees, and also state 
that you are not trying to whitewash any¬ 
body. Now this, some way or somehow, looks 
like lying down on the part of The It. N.-Y. 
No farmer will insist on anything that is 
unreasonable in reference to true-to-name 
stock. Put he unquestionably has a right to 
expect that when lie buys a hundred or a 
thousand trees or plants, at least 90 per 
cent of such should prove true. This ques¬ 
tion was answered by Geo. T. Powell at the 
recent meeting of the Western N. Y. Horti¬ 
cultural Society at Ilochester. lie advocated 
the budding of his own trees by the farmer, 
and stated in effect that all nurserymen 
were honest. A member asked “Why should 
not the farmer also grow his own trees?” 
To this question Mr. Powell demurred on 
the ground that tree growing was the nurs¬ 
eryman's business. I very much doubt if 
Mr. Powell voiced the general sentiment of 
farmers on this subject. It looks very much 
like the repression of San Jose scale which 
was proposed some years ago, and which 
legislation was defeated by those men who 
held positions of influence and lucrativeness 
in our Agricultural Department. As a result 
of this failure to make the nurseryman con¬ 
trol his scale and stop its dissemination, it 
has been scattered broadcast throughout the 
length and breadth of this State. The writer, 
a few years ago, set a very few peach trees 
in a bearing block of 500. At that time he 
did not know that any scale existed this 
Side of Long Island, and did not know it 
when ho saw it. These trees were bought 
from a supposedly reputable firm near home, 
and came with a State inspector’s tag at¬ 
tached. These trees were scattered through 
the orchard, and three years after the or¬ 
chard was sacrificed. It is a comparatively 
easy matter to combat scale in the nursery, 
but when we get it in the orchard of apple 
trees 25 to 40 years old, it is a very different, 
proposition. 1 am heartily tired of the 
reiteration by Mr. Powell and others that 
all nurserymen are honest. Put as he says 
so we will admit it. It is proposed to make 
the farmer honest by the Lafean bill. The 
manufacturer of fertilizers, of feeds, of food ! 
stuffs, in fact of everything almost, has 
been made honest by legislation. I can even 
buy a jug of whiskey, and under the ruling 
of President Taft it must come to me as 
“straight, blend, compound,” etc. 
If I should buy a ton of fertilizer, or a 
ton of feed that was criminally below guar¬ 
antee, the results to me would not be very 
disastrous. Put when I buy and set a thou¬ 
sand orchard trees, and after nursing them 
With high hopes, through live to 10 years, 
and find 50 per cent worthless, it is a great 
satisfaction to hunt up the nurseryman's 
contract which I have signed, and read 
again what it says. Could a more palpably 
unjust, damnable and disheartening state of 
affairs be imagined? Oh yes, the nursery¬ 
man is, and always has been, the only hon¬ 
est man in the world; the only man that 
our beneficent legislation has not compelled 
to be honest. Can there exist any difference 
in ethics between the manufacturer of fer¬ 
tilizers who is compelled to make his brands 
conform to name or analysis, and the nurs¬ 
eryman who might, and ought to he com¬ 
pelled to guarantee his stock true within 
reasonable limits? f. a. seeley. 
New York. 
It. N.-Y.—Mr. Seeley must he joking when 
he talks about “lying down.” We are not 
in the habit of doing that for nurserymen 
or any other men, and this is no time to 
begin. On the other hand we intend that 
all men who do business with our readers 
shall have a fair show. We did not realize 
some of the difficulties under which nursery¬ 
men work until we tried making a lot of 
root grafts. We do not believe Mr. Seeley 
would let his hired hands make 5,000 grafts 
or bud 5,000 trees, and then be willing to 
swear that every kind was genuine! It will 
probably be found that neither buyer nor 
seller has a monopoly of honesty. We find 
both honest men and rogues in the nursery 
business. We would like to help one class 
into business and help boot the other class 
out of business. We will give all kinds of 
nurserymen and all kinds of fruit growers 
a chance to be heard, for there is no greater 
question before us to-day than this one of 
“substituted trees.” Does Mr. Seeley suppose 
we would print his article just as he has 
written it if we were really “lying down?” 
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