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About The Oregon mist. (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.) 188?-1913 | View Entire Issue (May 12, 1911)
FARM ORCHARD A ore and Instructions from Agricultural College and Experiment Stations at Oregon and Washington. Specially Suitable to Pacific Coast Conditions APPLE SCAB AND MOTH. CODLING Um Urw Anncuitur! oiw. tk. .n far th nnl. cab and codling moth is at hand, and since these rests are, generally speak ing, the most important troubles of the apple for which spring and sum mer tpraying is necessary, it was thought advisable to issue at this time this bulletin of information re garding their life history and nut tod of control. The spray for these troubles may be applied in part at the same time, hence for convenience of the erowers are treated together, The proper time for treatment of fungus diseases or insect ravages is always determined by the life history of the organism causng the trouble. hence the life history of each will first be riven, followed by the combined method of treatment Life History of Apple Scab. Apple scab is caused by a fungus which attacks both foliage and fruit On the foliage the spots are at first more or less circular in outline, olive green or brown in color, becoming darker and irregular in shape as they mature. The leaves are frequently more or less curled or wrinkled. When the spots are abundant the leaves fall prematurely. Considerable defoliation may take place where in festation is abundant On the fruit the fungus produces more or less circular spots of the greenish black color. The vegetative stage of the fungus develop under the cuticle of the apple fruit finally rup turing it by the elongation of the threads which bear the spores. The ruptured cuticle may frequently be seen clinging as wmtisn memDranous shreds about the edge of the recently developed spots. As the spots become older all trace of the fungus may be come obliterated and only evidence of the former spot is seen in a large or small rough russetted spot fre quently the fruit is distorted when mature as the result of early scab infections. Where scab spots are abundant the fruit may become cracked. Scab in any degree of sever ity on the fruit renders it unsightly and unmarketable. . The spores of the fungus are pro duced in the spots on leaves or fruit in great abundance and are disseminated by the wind, thus spreading the dis ease to other leaves and fruit either in the same or other trees. Several generations may thus occur during the season. One finds the scab spots first appearing in the spring on the under side of leaves on the lower branches. Spores produced in these spots serve to spread the disease to young fruit and to other leaves. The development of the scab fun gus is found to be very much in fluenced by weather condition. Mois ture pn the surface of leaves and fruit is essential to the germination of the spores and the consequent infection of the plant 'On that account scab is found to spread most rapidly in spring, early summer and fall in the North west The disease spreads little, if any, during the dry season. The my celium of the fungus present on the leaves which fall to the ground in the fall does not die, but develops in thee leaves during the winter as a saphrophyte and in the spring pro duces spores quite different from those borne in the spots on living leaves and fruit both in the manner of formation and in the shape and size. The spores found in the spots on leaves and fruit are one-celled, rarely two-celled, and are borne on the ends of short threads, while the spires developed on the dead leaves in spring are always distinctly two-celled and are borne in little cylindrical sacs called asci. Eight spores are always developed in each sac. A considerable number of these sacs are borne in hollow more or less pear-shaped receptacles imbedded in the tissues of the leaf. These recep tacles containing the asci, known as perithelia, project from the surface of the leaf when mature as little black elevations. - These are barely visible to the naked eye. At maturity an opening appears in the projecting ele vations. The asci elongate through this opening and the spores are eject ed forcibly, and; wafted by currents of air, may be carried to the young leaves of the apple, where they germ inate and produce the first scab spots. This ascus spore stage of the fungus which develops on the fallen leaves is sometimes called the "sexual" or "perfect" stage. The stage which develops on the living leaves and fruit is called the con i dial or "summer spore" stage. Tha ascus spores are disseminated bout the time the blossoms open. So far as is known all primary infection of the leaves and fruit in the spring takes place following the dissemina tion of the sexual spores. Life History of Codling Moth. The codling moth spends the winter in the larval stage within silken In Praise of Ice Cream. Sunday dinner without Ice cream Is an Imposition on the whole family. Say, brother, did you ever notice the expression of the faces of the chil dren when they were ready for Ice cream, and canned peaches were brought In? There Is a chance for mutiny and rebellion right there. Whea the family Is feeling grouchy Just serve them vanilla Ice cream and pour hot thick chocolate over the tee cream. Then life la worth living. I cocoon under the bark or in crevices of I the tree, or under rubbish on the spring they undergo a complete ! change, and transforming to pupae later emerge aa adults. In thia stage the insect ia seldom seen as it remains quiet during the day and flies about at night depositing eggs upon the leaves and fruit in the evening about dusk. The eggs of the spring generation of moths are deposited during June and July and the first young larvae hatch out about June 20th to July 1st As soon as the larvae hatch out they seek an entrance into the fruit and in the case of the first generation, mostly enter through the calyx end. They feed and develop for about sixteen to twenty days, until mature, and then pass through the same stages as the over-winter larvae, namely: pupae and adult Ia the Willamette valley the earliest individuals of this brood of moths begin to appear about the last of July and deposit their eggs upon the fruit and leaves. The egg deposition continues until late in the fall. The eggs begin hatching about August 1st and the larvae enter the fruit from the sides. These are the . over-wintering forms, and when full grown they leave the fruit snd seek ing protected places near by, spin winter cocoons. Combined Treatment for Apple Scab and Codling Moth. The first application is primarily an apple scab spray. Use lime-sulphur, diluted 1-30 with water (basis of 30 degree Baume stock solution) and apply just as the buds are sepa rating in the cluster and show color. No arsenate of lead is necessary at this time unless the bud moth is pres ent in which case add two pounds of neutral arsenate of lead to each 50 gallons of diluted lime-sulphur. If aphis are present add black leaf 40 to the lime-sulphur in the proportion of 1 gallon to 900. When the latter is mixed with the lime-sulphur there will be a small amount of grayish sed iment thrown down, which, however, does not affect the value of the spray to any appreciable extent The second application should be made just after the petals fall and be fore the calyx closes. Use lime-sulphur 1-30 to which has been added two pounds of neutral arsenate of lead to each 50 gallons. This is the second scab and the first codling moth spray. The third application in orchards that are badly infested with apple scab, spray ten days or two weeks after the second with lime-sulphur, summer strength, or with self-boiled lime-sulphur (4-8-50). This is dis tinctly a scab spray and in regions where scab is not prevalent may be omitted. Where leaf-eating insects are present two pounds of arsenate of lead should be added to each fifty gallons of spray. In those sections of the state where scab is not present and it is necessary to spray for leaf- eating insects, arsenate of lead may be diluted with water in the propor tion of two pounds to fifty gallons. The fourth application, the second spray for codling moth should be ap plied at the time the eggs of the first generation moths are hatching or just as the very earliest worms are begin ning to enter the fruit In the great er portion of the W illamette valley this will be usually between June 25th and July 1st although the dates vary somewhat with the season. This date is also approximately correct for most portions of the Hood River valley, but in Southern Oregon and most portions of the Grande Ronde valley this ap plication should be made somewhat earlier. Use two pounds of arsenate of lead to fifty gallons of water. The fifth application, an application of arsenate of lead should be applied as a preventive of injury by codling moth about four or five weeks after the fourth. In the Willamette valley this will be about August 1st to 10th. This date, however, varies in different parts of the state as above noted, and the application should be made when the first young larvae are found enter ing the fruit The sixth application, the fourth spray for codling moth, corresponds to the fall spraying for bud moth and should be applied in the Willamette valley about September 25th to Octo ber 1st Use arsenate of lesd in the proportion of two pounds to 50 gal lons of water. In case the bud moth is not present in the orchard and the previous codling moth sprsys have been thoroughly applied this applica tion may be omitted. In case apple scab has been particularly prevalent or the fall rains begin early it would be well to use lime-sulphur 1-30 at this time for the purpose of limiting fall infection. This would also be desirable if the orchard is badly in fested with apple tree anthracnose. Supplementary Mathods of Controlling Apple Scab. Since the fungus causing apple scab winters over in the decaying leaves on the ground, it is advisable to destroy Her Period of Quietude. It is said to be customary In Rut garla for a newly married woman t exchange no conversation with any outsider during the first month toU lowing the wedding. She Is permitted to open her mouth only for the neces sary purpose of eating and drinking! and Is allowed to reply to her husband when the latter chooses to address her. To this custom Is attributed tho fact that the honeymoon ia Bulgaria lasts an entire month. !:!Kr5SrrffiJ!S.S0ME COOKERY FRILLS L TriA uati sil ft t l -.. ( SH nf Krttvtat.ii V ' for apple tree anthracnose just after the fruit is picked may have benefi cial effect in reducing the late spread of the disease on the foliage and hence reduction of the "sexual" spore stage in the spring. Codling Moth. Much good can be done by scraping the rough bark from the tree in the winter, and by the practice of clean culture; especially ia this true of old neglected orchards. Be careful not to carry infested fruits into the store house in the fall. as the larvae find many excellent places therein to spend the winter. EXPERIMENT STATION NOTES By It. W. Thatchar. Director Wuhinaton Elwr tmsnl Statiun. The reason for the lack of fertility of pine land soils is not due to the pitch which such land contains, but to an absence of supply of available nitrogen. The foliage from evergreen trees adds very little to the supply of nitrogen in the soil, while the trees themselves constantly take it from the soil. In soils which have been burned over, the heat burns out a good deal of nitrogen in the upper layers of soil. The ashes are not injurious, but are highly beneficial to the soil. The real difficulty ia that the grow ing of pine and fir trees on soil poor in nitrogen takes away so large a pro portion of the available nitrogen that when the soil is first brought under cultivation it will rarely produce sat isfactory crops. After two or three years of cultivation the soil gets into better condition and the nitrogen be comes more available and better crops are obtained. The only remedy for this condition is thorough cultivation supplemented by the use of some fer tilizer to put available nitrogen in the soil to start with. For this purpose, barnyard manure is best Clover would be still better, but clover itself will rarely grow on this soil without artificial fertilizer to start with. The best commercial fertilizer to use on this kind of soil is dried blood, applied either in the fall or early spring. If field peas would grow at all on this soil, they would make a most excel lent fertilizer if seeded early in the spring, plowing them under as soon as they have attained their maximum growth. Repeated attempts have been made to use potassium cyanide as a squirrel poison. The difficulty is to get the odor of the cyanide disguised so that the squirrels will eat anything that has been treated with the chemical. All attempts which I am familiar with have failed. The use of cyanide In the holes late in the season might be effective if some means could be de vised for generating the hydrocyanic gas from it This will require the presence of some acid in the hole to come in contact with the potassium cyanide, or orthewise the poisonous gas will not be given off. The chief difficulty with all these gas poisons ia that the holes are so long and crooked that there is difficulty in getting the gas -to penetrate far enough to reach the animal before it is absorbed by the soil. Wherever sagebrush and cactus flourish, there agricultural crops will also grow. If the prevailing vege tation is greasewood or salt grass, the amounts of alkali are sufficient enough to injure most agricultural crops. If the alkali is excessive, how ever, no vegetation of any kind will grow on the land. Another indication of alkali is the presence on the surface of the ground of a white crust in the latter part of August Alkali is simply an injurious excess of soluble salts, and at this season they are brought to the surface by excess of evaporation, and will al ways appear on the surface in the early fall. White alkali includes any of the soluble salts. "Black alkali," as it is called, is sodium carbonate, and causes the vegetation on the sur face of the ground to turn black be cause of its corrosive effect on vegeta tion. Siberian Wild Flowers. Siberia seems to bare a set pro gram for her flowers, which are beautiful In variety and coloring. Sep tember gathers the blue flowers to her bosom, and under her languid and' caressing touch blossom myriads of dainty bluebells on long and tender stems. In the rocky soil of the hilltops blue srablosa shares Its playground with drak blue snapdragon, and In the shady spots of the road grow, tall and hardy, purple blue chrysanthemums. Earlier In summer yellow holds sway buttercups, daisies and violets, and after them red rinks and very deep briar roses. Delicious Jam Is concocted from the seedpods of the wild rose. When summer comes an array of Jars and glasses and a big kettle jo'n hands with hst boxes and shoe hags and travel countrywsrd. A te nv orary stove Is built of stones not fsr frmi the bouse, and here simmers slowly the year's provision of pre servea and jams and Jollies, absorb ing at the snme time great doses of sun and fresh sir. America. - . Treasured Trees, " Two trees to be seen In the main itreet of Tborshavn, the capital of the Fares Islands, have an interesting his tory, Trees resolutely refuse to grow In these Islands, except In some few ibeltered spots, and the Inhabitants therefore prize them greatly. When the road was made It was decided to leave tha trees la the middle of the carriage way rather than be guilty of the crime of felling them. POTATO SOUP IS IMPROVSD BY A OAH OP VINEGAR. Individual Pate Is Out of Date De licious Salad of Different Nuts and Fruits and Shredded Celery. The usual Insipidity of potato soup is Improved by adding a dash of vlue tar just before serving. As all may not like the flavor the cruet can be passed. All fruit aalads are Improved by marinating In French dressing, though later served with mayonnaise. Instead of the Individual pate. It la more popular now to pass one or two large pales, each guest serving her iotf. Fill with mushrooms, oysters or creamed sweetbreads. Biscuits or French rolls for formal use are more diminutive than ever. The former should be the site of a 50-centplece and a quarter-Inch thick. A delicious salad was made from different nuts, white grapes, a little shredded grape fruit, pineapple cut Into cubea and shredded celery. Mask In mayonnaise or serve with a cream dressing. When a boiled egg la the usual breakfast dish, vary It by breaking It raw Into the eggcup and cooking In hot water to the desired consistency. The flavor la quite different than ben cooked In the shell. Fingers of bread about four Inches long, quarter of an Inch wide and the tame thickness buttered thickly and browned In quick oven are delicious to serve with boiled eggs. Salad Is now usually passed In salad dish, but when served directly on the Individual plates an appetising and artistic effect can be bad by ma king nests of shredded lettue or en dive, In which are eggs made of cream cheese colored with spinach lulce and sprinkled thickly with pap rika or black pepper. Cover with mayonnaise. In baking a rake, atlnt the flour In (he batter and you will have much more tender cake. Good cranberries cannot be made If the sugar Is allowed to bolt In with the berries. After the cranberries are oft and strained through a colander add a scant pound of sugar to a quart of berries, bring to a boll and cook four minutes. Put three-quarters of a pint of boiling water on the berries when first cooked. HOUSEHOLD. For darning stockings . use crochet cotton. It Is preferable to darning cotton, as It does not harden when washed. If your plea overflow In the oven in sert a short piece of uncooked maca roni In the top crust. Tola la better than the paper funnel. An excellent cleaner for painted sur faces Is made as follows: Two quarts of hot water, two tableapoonfuls of turpentine, a pint of skimmed milk and enough soap to make a weak suds When steel knives and forks have become tainted with fish they can be rubbed with fresh orange or lemon peel, and the taint will disappear en tirely. When making a mayonnaise In which only the yolks of eggs are used toe economical housekeeper will use the whites for a dessert, such as apple suow, for frosting, or for meringue on a pie. For Silk Cushions. If you have silk-covered cnshlons In your house, you must hare noticed bow often the feathers or down conies through, giving the pillow a fuzzy. unsightly appearance. This could have been avoided, and can be the next time, by Ironing the Inside of the silk with an Iron that has been rubbed with shoemaker's wax. This Ironing, done before the pillow Is made up, will act as a sort of thin varnish on the silk, and will prevent the feathers from working through. Coffee Cream Cake. One and one-half cups sugar, two of flour, two eggs, 2ty tearpoonfuls baking powder, pinch of salt, about three-fourths of a teaspoonful lemon, one-fourth cup butter, one tablespoon ful cocoanut Melt butter, break In eggs without beating, pour In one third cup of milk half cup cold coffee: make In three layers. Cream for filling One pint milk In double boiler, one-half cup of flour, two eggs beaten, salt essence, one cup sugar; boll Ingredients. Orange Baskets. Cut aa many oranges as will be re quired, leaving half the peel whole for the basket and strip half an Inch wide for the handles. Remove pulp and Juice; use juice for making orange jelly. Place baskets In pan of broken Ice to keep upright. Kill with orange Jelly. When ready tc serve put spoonful of whipped cream over the Jelly In each baaket. Serve In a bed of green leaves. If by chance paint spots stick to window panes, do not use knife to loosen them. A cloth wet In hot vine gar will clean tbem perfectly. A white porcelain bathtub that has grown brown may be most perfectly cleaned by the use of spirits of tur pentine applied with a flannel cloth. Sausage Roll. Make a rich biscuit dough, roll out put In each fried sausage and pinch over like a turnover. Hake until brown. smd fflffiH ONE WAY OF GETTING EVEN Policeman Is Wlllln. to Al.ow Den tlst Torture Pstisnt After Latter Tells His Story. "Here," said the policeman after he had hurriedly entered the dentist's re- eentlon room, "what's goto 00? You've had man In there holienn bloody murder for nearly half an hour. Why don't you give him sotuetblug to stou bis palu" "Give him something to stop bis naln? Mr dear sir, you dont under stand. I bad occasion to take lady to lunch one day last week oh. It was a business matter, nothing more and this chan saw me. well, tne next day he happened to meet my wife, whom he knew before) she was married, and he mentioned that he had seen me and wanted to know what the other lady's name was. Of course, I" "Oh. never mind. Oo ahead and kill hltn." Too Much of a Risk. The beautiful girl had fallen Into the lake, and, much to the displeasure of the moving picture man, the tried &.id tested beru refused to go to bur aid. "What's the trouble with your de manded the moving picture man an grtly. "Why didn't you Jump In an J rescue the maid?" 'Skeered I might gwt drowned." re sponded the hero nonchalantly, "But you are wearing your new he ro medal V "That's Just the trouble. The blamed medal weighs so much I'm ikeervd I'd sink." May Be for Effect "I never before saw a man so en thuslastlc about the future of his town." "He does Indeed seem to be very en thuslastlc about the future of his town, but I have often wondered If he really feela that way or la niervly playing a part." "Why do you question bis slncer Ityr "I happen to know that moat of his money Is Invested In 'town lots bo would like to sell." Overdone. 'The doctors are urging all kinds of sanitary measures and precautions upon the public." "Yes, If all the recommendations and warnings were followed, a man's home would look like a hospital." A MARINE JOKEI Midshipman Easy I wonder what people will say when they hear I am going to marry old Widow Ulllyuns? iJeut. Illunt Tbeyll probably say you re mariner for money. His Finish. "I was aurprlsed to see old Tlte wad's death notice In your paper this morning." "You must be mistaken. The only notice concerning Tltewad was the ac count of how he lost a thousand dol lars In speculation." Well, he didn't live after that, did he?" The Usual. City Edltnr-Anythlng now bout mat accused deaf mute? Reporter He got his hearbig today, t'lty Editor What happened? Reporter He'd nothing to Puck, ay. Discovered. "Why do you think Myrtle V In lover asked the girl's father. "I noticed this morning when I was In the library that booh of poems by Owen Meredith hsd been tampered Praetlcsl. HeIf I should kiss you, I sunnosa you'd go and ten your mctheJ PP She-No, my lawy,r.Ho,ton Traj Mm A Nsw Jinricksha. A one-wheeled Jinricksha, ea J monocyclo principle, Is being duoed among the Chinese 4 Us k lay states. It Is said to be safa, u' to have many advantage 0vsr th.k4 fashioned vehicle). Too wear aaq (, la reduced to a minimum, the work the pullers reduoed and si B creased. Amertoa't Sweat Tooth. I If America's annual candy mppl' were loaded oa on train tbsre wo be over eight thouaand trucks full buzvs, buckets and glaaa jars. Tl, load of sweetmeats (or tha sweet tow, of the American girls costs too sumer about I12S.0O0.0O0 every tl YES! IT'S TRUE that the famous HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS is the test medicine and tonic you can take when the system is run down when the stomach is weak when the liver and bowels are In activewhen a real health maker is needed. Try a bottle today. It always g'ves satisfac tion. 5 Ollvo OH for Leather, leather furniture, especially placed near the register, Is liable J dry and crack. An escellont tatty of keeping It from looking old showing cracks Is to go over ths k or with a soft rsg dipped la ollv 4 and then going over the whole surfi again with a dry rag. tt la not im sary to go over the leather mors uJ once In three or four months, u enouch to keen tt soft. SflllR fiTflMAIV w wwss "r a a a w "I used Casrarrta and feel like a J man. I have brea a sufferer tnm it prpsia and sour stomach for the last yrara. I have been taking mUdnJ other drags, but could find bo relic) ol fr a abort time. I will recomaa Cases rets to my friends as the ooljthi for indigestion and soar stomach aril keep the bowels ia Rood coodJtx, Tbev ar rv nice to eat." Hnm riiMiMt patent. Tarts Oust ! Naaar Hwaaa. Waakna ar Una torn. Urn. Km. 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Onrf Cause of "alntnsss. Fainting la a loaa of eonscii duo to the diminution of blood ,t: to the brain. It occur most frf ly In weak, sensitive women, bat occur also to moo as well. It si' occurs ia crowds or In crowdsd theaters and churches where tb fmwrher Is elme and the air r 2 -alcoholic Ml Sa rsapan 7 : i If ycu think you need c ask your doctor. Ifyoutf VOU flrti anmethlns tat VC blood, ask your doctor. Wl think you would like to c Aycr's non-alcoholic SfJ' rills, ask vour doctor. Cc suit hirn often. Keep in !; touch with him. J A Wa'haalt J fraaa yers I Ask your doctor to asm "jjj results of constipation. HiiM11', begin with sick-hesdsche. bili dyspepsia, thia blood. bidsii'O sk him if he would recommit using Aysr's Pills. F I th. 0. Ast 00 -" I