Uhe  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
1521 
More  About  Oi!  Wraps 
In  the  article  “When  It  Pays  to  Wrap 
Apples,”  pags  1367,  the  distinction  evi¬ 
dently  was  not  made  very  clear  between 
the  various  kinds  of  paper  wrappers  for 
fruit,  as  shown  by  letters  from  readers. 
The  oil  paper  wrapper  should  not  be  con¬ 
fused  with  the  longer  known  wrappers  of 
wax  and  paraffin  paper,  nor  the  plain 
paper  wrapper,  neither  of  which  is  con¬ 
sidered  of  patricular  value  in  the  preven¬ 
tion  of  scald  of  apples  during  cold  stor¬ 
age.  The  main  value  of  the  older  kinds- 
of  wrapper  for  storage  of  fruit  is  in  pre¬ 
venting  the  spread  of  decay  from  one  ap¬ 
ple  to  another,  and  as  an  indication  of 
care  and  thoroughness  in  the  pack. 
The  oil  paper  now  being  used  so  exten¬ 
sively  in  the  Northwest  is  treated  with  an 
oil  obtained  from  petroleum.  It  is  not 
wax  or  paraffin,  but  a  liquid  oil,  without 
taste  or  smell.  It  is  applied  to  paper 
much  like  the  usual  wrapper,  but  of  a 
texture  which  absorbs  the  oil  readily  and 
holds  it  so  that  it  does  not  rub  off.  It 
does  not  coat  the  skin  nor  show  on  the 
fruit  in  any  way.  Just  how  it  protects 
the  apple  is  not  yet  fully  understood. 
Oils  take  up  gas  readily.  The  oiled  paper 
may  act  like  a  gas  mask,  taking  up  the 
injurious  gases  given  off  by  fruit  in 
cold  storage.  These  gases  are  believed  to 
be  the  main  sources  of  scald. 
Oil  paper  was  the  result  of  tests  made 
a  few  years  ago  by  Messrs.  Brooks,  Cool¬ 
ey  and  Fisher  of  the  United  States  De¬ 
partment  of  Agriculture,  who  recom¬ 
mended  the  oil  paper  after  trying  a  great 
variety  of  coatings  and  absorbents.  The 
commercial  use  of  oil  paper  dates  only 
from  1920,  but  it  is  being  used  this  sea¬ 
son  for  the  greater  part  of  the  Northwest 
for  fruit  intended  for  late  cold  storage. 
The  cost  is  about  2 y2c  more  per  box  of 
apples,  than  the  common  paper  wrap¬ 
per.  As  scald  takes  place  mostly  in  the 
later  part  of  the  storage  season,  the  oil 
paper  is  desirable  chiefly  for  long-time 
storage.  Because  of  the  difficulty  of  using 
paper  wrappers  in  the  barrel  pack,  the 
increased  use  of  these  wrappers  may  lead 
to  packing  more  Eastern  cold  storage  ap¬ 
ples  in  boxes.  G.  b.  f. 
Steely  Beetle  on  Grapes 
Would  you  tell  me  what  causes  the 
following  trouble  in  my  grapevines? 
Every  Spring,  just  when  the  buds  begin 
to  swell  and  get  about  the  size  of  peas, 
some  bird  or  insect  bores  a  hole  in  the 
bud  and  eats  out  the  young  shoot,  or  hol¬ 
lows  out  the  bud  so  that  these  buds  do 
not  develop,  and  instead  a  new  bud  will 
grow  on  the  side  of  the  injured  bud.  This 
of  course  throws  this  shoot  much  later 
than  the  uninjured  buds,  and,  too,  buds 
that  do  develop  after  above  injury  bore 
fruit  of  poor  quality.  I  have  watched 
carefully  to  see  if  I  could  learn  the 
source  of  trouble,  but  so  far  have  been 
unable  to  do  so.  What  causes  the  trouble, 
and  what  can  I  do  to  prevent  it  next 
Spring?  I  carefully  prune  my  vines  in 
February  and  spray  with  Bordeaux  four 
times  after  vines  begin  to  grow  and  until 
grapes  get  large  enough  to  place  in  paper 
bags.  I  notice  that  this  trouble  occurs 
worse  on  the  Lutie,  Catawba  and  Moore  s 
Early,  but  find  it  sometimes  on  Concord, 
Niagara,  etc.  I  have  used  a  dormant 
spray  of  lime-sulphur,  and  one  of  a  com¬ 
mercial  preparation,  but  neither  of  these 
seemed  to  keep  off  the  pest  that  causes 
this  injury.  I  once  laid  the  trouble  on 
English  sparrows,  but  can  hardly  see  how 
they  could  so  completely  hollow  out  a  de¬ 
veloping  bud.  E.  N.  T. 
Undoubtedly  the  injury  to  the  swelling 
buds  in  this  instance  is  due  to  the  steely 
beetle,  a  metallic  blue  insect  perhaps  an 
eighth  of  an  inch  in  length.  This  beetle 
only  feeds  on  the  warm  sunny  days.  of 
early  Spring,  and  usually  in  the  proxim¬ 
ity  of  headlands,  or  woodlots  that  have 
growing  in  them  wild  grapevines.  They 
hibernate  among  the  rubbish  and  accumu¬ 
lations  that  occur  in  gullies  and  waste 
areas  adjacent  to  the  vineyard.  As  the 
feeding  range  is  limited  it  has  been  found 
that  hand  picking  into  pans  containing 
kerosene  on  the  warm  sunny  days  is  the 
most  effective  and  economical  means  of 
controlling  this  pest.  F.  E.  G. 
Top-working  Oldenburg  and  Wealthy 
Can  Spv,  Baldwin,  Greening,  and  King 
be  grafted  on  small  trees  or  small  grow- 
*  ing  trees  such  as  Duchess  of  Oldenburg 
and  Wealthy?  Would  the  top  get  too  big 
for  the  body  and  break  down?  B.  J.  P. 
Ontario,  N.  Y. 
The  grafting  can  he  done  and  would 
doubtless  be  successful,  yet  the  combi¬ 
nation  is  not  ideal.  Both  Oldenburg  and 
Wealthy  are  relatively  short-lived  when 
compared  with  the  Baldwin,  Northern 
Spy,  and  Greening.  At  the  same  time 
the  tree  of  Wealthy  is  weak  and  breaks 
rather  easily.  The  reverse  of  the  com¬ 
bination  suggested  would  be  much  better. 
H.  B.  T. 
Yonah  Fruit  Co’s  Experience 
Shows  the  Economy  of  SCALECIDE 
I  HE  YONAH  Fruit  Company  is  one  of  the 
big  orchard  concerns  of  the  country.  It  is 
located  down  at  Cornelia,  Georgia.  Three 
years  ago  Yonah  decided  to  use  lime-sulphur 
instead  of  SCALECIDE — to  save  money!  The 
manager  reported  that  they  “gave  a  very 
thorough  spraying  of  ilime-sulphur  solution, 
using  161,250  gallons  of  material  on  the  dor¬ 
mant  spray  alone/*  but  the  following  fall  he 
found  it  necessary  to  spray  practically  all  of 
the  orchard  with  SCALECIDE,  “as  scale  had 
shown  up  on  most  all  varieties  of  apples”. 
For  this,  they  purchased  60  barrels  of  SCALE¬ 
CIDE  which  makes  48,000  gallons  of  solution. 
It  cost  Yonah,  at  only  one  cent  a  gallon  for 
labor,  wear  and  tear  of  apparatus,  $1612.50, 
exclusive  of  material,  to  spray  with  lime- 
sulphur,  and  $480.00  to  spray  with  SCALE¬ 
CIDE — a  saving  of  $1132.50  by  using  SCALE¬ 
CIDE.  Yonah’ s  experience  shows  the  effec¬ 
tiveness  and  economy  of  SCALECIDE  for  you . 
On  every  tree,  shrub  and  vine  that  sheds  its 
leaves  in  winter  —  use  SCALECIDE  as  your 
dormant  spray.  Then  you  w:ll  know  that 
you  have  done  all  that  can  be  done  at  that 
particular  time  by  any  dormant  spray  or 
combination  of  sprays.  Fall  spraying  with 
SCALECIDE  controls  psylla  and  peach  leaf 
curl.  Spring  application  controls  aphis,  pear 
thrips,  leaf  miner,  case  bearer  and  leaf  roller. 
Either  fall  or  spring  spraying  with  SCALECIDE 
controls  scale,  bud  moth,  European  red  mite, 
fungus  or  blight  cankers  from  which  are 
spread  fire  blight,  collar  rot  and  root  rot. 
And  in  addition,  year  after  year  use  of 
SCALECIDE  invigorates  the  trees. 
WE  GUARANTEE  that,  if  you  will  divide  an  orchard,  your  worst  or  best,  in  two  parts  equal  in  general  condition,  and 
for  three  years  spray  one  part  with  SCALECIDE  according  to  our  directions  and  the  other  part  with  lime  sulfur,  giving  the 
same  summer  treatment  to  both  parts,  the  part  sprayed  with  SCALECIDE  will  be  better  than  the  part  sprayed  with  lime  sulfur 
—  in  the  judgment  of  three  disinterested  fruit  growers  —  or  we  will  refund  the  money  you  have  paid  for  the  SCALECIDE. 
SCALECIDE  is  not  an  emulsion  but  a  miscible  oil  that  mixes  instantly  with  cold  water  and  stays  mixed 
without  agitation.  Its  continuous  use  for  the  past  twenty  years  throughout  the  fruit-growing  world  has 
proven  that  it  will  not  do  injury  such  as  has  been  so  often  attributed  to  oil  emulsions  and  improperly 
made  miscible  oils.  If  your  dealer  doesn’t  carry  SCALECIDE,  show  him  this  advertisement — nr  order 
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Farm  For  Sale 
KERHONKSON 
NEW  YORK 
75  acres,  on  sighty  location 
for  a  summer  residence.  A 
very  comfortable  farm 
house  in  perfect  condition, 
and  a  new  barn.  Running 
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J.  D.  KNIGHT 
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