anaheim-gazette 1908-01-30

THE CABBAGE APHIS WEATHER CONDITIONS There is no doubt but that the weather is often directly responsible for the death of a great many plant lice. Severe enough frost will certainly kill them, but there has been no death in the cabbage fields this year from frosts and it is doubtful if frosts severe enough for this purpose are ever to be expected in our winter cabbage growing section. Heat also is fatal to aphids, but here again we have a factor not of local significance. Heavy rains may beat plant lice from the plant and accomplish their death, since a very small number thus detached ever get back on the plants. The rain we had a few nights ago was about as hard as we can expect and while many lice were actually destroyed there were very few cases where those thus removed could not be replaced by the natural increase of those that remained, in two or three days. The direct action of the weather conditions is thus seen to have been a very small factor in the present situation. Indirectly the weather is probably always a most important factor. Plant lice thrive within rather narrow limits. When the weather becomes too moist the diseases become too prevalent. The poor showing the diseases have made this season has probably been due to the lack of rain. The past experience has been that rainy spells result in a general destruction of plant lice. The supposition that the rain is directly fatal is wrong, but instead, the moist conditions of the atmosphere favor the dissemination and increase the virulence of the contagious diseases. Everyone has probably noticed that while rains generally cause the destruction experimentation but not yet able for practical work. SPRAYING As our knowledge now stands sole dependence in the way of re-spraying is to spray the plants. What use is not a very important question since the insects are very easily killed. Probably a kerosene emulsion or tillate spray at about half the size necessary for scale insects would be cheapest. A soap solution, not stricter than one bar to five gallons, is the convenient, at least, for small growers. The spraying should be done, if done at all, for the only killed are those actually wetted spraying operation. A spray should be used, giving a rather fan-like spray so that the stream be directed accurately at the center of the plant for at best some of the will escape treatment. The mostough, careful work can be done cost not to exceed ten dollars and under the best conditions pre-for half that amount. Each garden will have to decide for himself what in any particular case it will make a treatment. One can affix make two or three, or even more parts rather than lose the part of a crop. Probably in most one treatment may be enough to the plants a start and keep them ing until natural conditions arise favorable to the lice. FUMIGATION The practical impossibility of rinsing all the lice with a spray makes idea of fumigation very attractive. This method is strictly in the experimental stage, however, as applied field crops, and I regret to say experiments thus far made are not promising. The cabbage louse ap- this season has probably been due to the lack of rain. The past experience has been that rainy spells result in a general destruction of plant lice. The supposition that the rain is directly fatal is wrong, but instead, the moist conditions of the atmosphere favor the dissemination and increase the virulence of the contagious diseases. Everyone has probably noticed that while rains generally cause the destruction of the insect, in certain cases they will remain just as bad as ever; sometimes on single plants where there seems to be no reason why the weather should not have had the same effect as on surrounding plants. Since the death is due to disease, however, such cases are to be expected, due to the absence of the necessary disease germs. Such a dry condition as has prevailed this season presents another limit to their continued development on a plant. As long as there are only a few lice on the plant, the conditions are rather favorable to growth and the insect develops along the line indicated above, as forms 1, 2, 4 and 5. After the plact becomes badly infected, if the weather is dry, we see the insects suddenly changing their mode of development to forms 1, 3, 5 and 7, and when stage 7 is reached they fly off into the air. The dryer it is at this time the less the chance of one of these migrants getting back onto a cabbage plant with enough vitality remaining to enable it to leave descendants. Whole fields have in this way become almost free from lice and many plants in almost any field not too recently planted will show the curled leaves of extinct colonies. Dry weather acts thus as a check preventing excessive numbers, but not protecting the plant from injury, since winged forms are only produced after the plant is in a bad way and new colonies are established again whenever the plant makes a new start. Winged forms can be seen in the air everywhere about cabbage fields and it would be only an accident if a plant should escape becoming infected. REMEDIES While it will be thus seen that natural checks are hardly classable among the things we can control and therefore make use of; at times we must resort to remedies if we are to escape favorable to the lice. FUMIGATION The practical impossibility of making all the lice with a spray made idea of fumigation very attractive. This method is strictly in the mental stage, however, as applied field crops, and I regret to say experiments thus far made are not promising. The cabbage louse appears to be about in the same class as mealy bug in its resistance to cyanidia and the cabbage plant is neither able to injury by the gas, perhaps because of the high water content of the leaf. However, it may be that it can be though it will be certainly more expensive than spraying. Perhaps may be more practical for seed bed infection than for field work, and probably carbon bisulfid may prove satisfactory than cyanide, or perhaps no method of fumigation may be practical. DIPPING Every precaution should be taken prevent the first introduction of into a field. In most cases observe this season the insect was wild doubt present on the plants when were set out in the field. A few persons practice the dipping of the plant in soap solution or in kerosene emulsion and in some cases apparently e louse was killed. Spraying the bed or dipping the plants before piling are both very inexpensive and tainly should never be neglected. CUTTING WEEDS The original source of the infestation of cabbage plants in the fields seed beds is the wild vegetation longing to the same botanical fauna That is, mustard and the wild radish. A comparatively small amount of would enable most growers to desuch weeds for perhaps in this produce plants entirely clean from pest and possibly prevent the infestation of the field until the cabbage have a good start, and avoid the nasty of other measures. Old seed should be plowed under. Since are often a prolific source of lice migrate to other fields. Roadside Trees, The district attorney of Santa Clara county gave the board of supervise of that county some desired information on the question: "Who has control whenever the plant makes a new start. Winged forms can be seen in the air everywhere about cabbage fields and it would be only an accident if a plant should escape becoming infected. REMEDIES While it will be thus seen that natural checks are hardly classable among the things we can control and therefore make use of; at times we must resort to remedies if we are to escape the destruction of the crop, still these natural checks are usually more efficient than any practical remedy, and it is necessary to understand their nature if we would avoid the mistake of applying a remedy when not useful, or refraining from a treatment when it is most needed. There have been a few attempts at controlling natural checks. Ladybirds have been gathered and introduced in large quantities for certain other species of plant lice. No attempt in these cases were made to determine what was actually accomplished, however, and in the instances, that have come under my personal observation the results were almost nothing, though the growers were satisfied that the ladybirds had been effective because other conditions intervened which caused the destruction of the lice. Moisture can be secured by irrigation, possibly enough to develop the diseases, but there is no careful observation at hand to show that this is possible. Disease germs may be introduced also, and in the case of the chinch bug in the Mississippi Valley very careful experiments proved that under some conditions such introduction hastened very materially the death of the insect, when the weather became favorable. These, however, are all matters worthy enough of study and Roadside Trees. The district attorney of Santa Clara county gave the board of supervisors of that county some desired information on the question, "Who has controlled shade trees growing in a public way?" which may be of interest others. He says: "As some persons veiw the matter an abutting owner whose estate extends to the center line of the highway on the right to pluck nuts growing on land within the line of the highway and so, they argue, must have an ideal right to remove the tree itself, chop it up into stovewood if he so desires. The matters are not the same. The board of supervisors has power to pay persons who plant and cultivate namental trees the sum of $1 for every living tree thus planted, when it attained an age of four years. It is sure to suppose that thousands of trees might, on the next day, be felled by the abutting owners." "Section 2742 of the Political Code provides, that whoever digs up, down, or otherwise maliciously injures any shade or ornamental tree on a highway unless the same is deemed obstruction by the road overseer to removed under his direction, forfeiting $100 for each such tree. No special privileges are conferred on abutting owners by this section." Both Men Have Records When the two men now in the county jail under the names of A solution but not yet dependtential work. SPRAYING Knowledge now stands, the force in the way of remedies for plants. What spray to the very important question, is very easily killed. Aerosene emulsion or a disthat about half the strength of scale insects would be the soap solution, not stronger to five gallons, is the most at least, for small growers. It should be thoroughly that all, for the only insects actually wetted in the ciration. A spray nozzle guid, giving a rather narrow so that the stream can accurately at the center of that best some of the lice treatment. The most thorwork can be done at a exceed ten dollars an acre, the best conditions probably amount. Each grower decide for himself whether regular case it will pay to ment. One can afford to three, or even more treatthan lose the greater Probably in most cases may be enough to give heart and keep them growural conditions arise, unne lice. TUMIGATION Real impossibility of reache with a spray makes the igation very attractive. It is strictly in the experhowever, as applied to and I regret to say the pus far made are not very the cabbage louse appears in the same class as the Carson and Charles W. Shultz come up for trial on the charge of burglary both will have to face prior convictions on that charge. Both are ex-convicts. Constable Smithwick, who has been looking up their past, has fixed their past records. Roy Carson served a two-year sentence from Tulare county on a charge of burglary in the second degree. He went to San Quentin on January 16, 1906. The name under which he was sent to prison from Tulare county is C. H. Humphrey. The man who calls himself Charles Schultz is well known to the Los Angeles police as Charles W. Pottino. He served ninety days in the Los Angeles County Jail for petty larceny, and on May 26, 1905, he was sent to San Quentin with a two year sentence for burglary. The San Quentin records received by Constable Smithwick contain photographs of the men who served terms there as C. H. Humyhrey and Charles W. Pottino, and those photographs are plainly of the two men in jail. Carson and Schultz are to be tried in the Superior Court on the charge of burglarizing the store of Sam Lee. Charged also with the burglary is a woman who gives her name as Mary Stuart. She walked into Sam Lee's place with Carson and Schultz enticed Sam Lee to go with her to the rear room of the place after a drink or water, and while she was talking to Sam Lee, Carson and Schultz pried open the cash drawer of the store and got away with about $125. The trio were arrested at Santa Ana and practically all of the money was found. Sam Lee is able to identify many of the coins, he having a number of supposely rare dates on hand. Are you satisfied? 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