anaheim-gazette 1908-04-16

CONTROLLING WALNUT BLIGHT Grafting of Immune Varieties Suggested by Prof. Ramsey of the Pathological Laboratory Prof. Ramsey of the state laboratory at Whittier was in the city on Thursday and in company of Mr. Neff visited the several orchards in this vicinity where scions were recently grafted upon walnut trees. In the Neff orchard metentis of the scions were found to be growing nicely. Prof. Ramsey is taking a deep interest in this subject, and was delighted to note the success attending the transplanted scions. In a paper read before the recent growers' meeting at Whittier he said: The question of walnut blight control has been the great problem with nearly every grower of walnuts for the last half score of years or more. Walnut blight has entered and does today enter into nearly every consideration or phase of the walnut industry. In figuring on probable returns, on walnut growing as an investment or as a means of livelihood, the great big question mark which always stands out in the foreground is that of the blight. It is always a factor and perhaps the greatest factor in reducing the profits to be derived from a walnut orchard, and is today the greatest drawback to walnut growing. In spite of a great increase in acreage, the output, instead of in his orchard, he was that variety by grafting from that particular orchard with every tree to the original tree propagated. On these were he to plant this tree, he would find found, that instead of chard of uniformly similar a uniform quantity of nuts of the same variety have an orchard of varying type with each variety differing material, size, quality and walnuts produced. The matter of chance as to an orchard one obtaining seedlings and will one will obtain even equal to the parent trunk. The grafted trees, the choice of roots as best ticular soils or condition no particular reason, but select intelligently his variety, why or have a producing or at least one hundred pints to the tree instill but two or three such whole orchard. It would seem that every standpoint the by far preferable, leave the possibility of blight means of immune var often been said that the so bad but what they good mixed in with it nut blight has been enormous losses to the as an investment or as a means of livelihood, the great big question mark which always stands out in the foreground is that of the blight. It is always a factor and perhaps the greatest factor in reducing the profits to be derived from a walnut orchard, and is today the greatest drawback to walnut growing. In spite of a great increase in acreage, the output, instead of increasing, is now actually less than it was three or four years ago; this decrease being due mainly to blight. However, blight alone does not by any means account for all the losses occasioned in the past. The present bearing acreage of walnuts in the south today is composed entirely, with but a very few exceptions, of seedling trees. These few exceptions, which happily there are, are the ones which have proven very conclusively the superiority of the grafted trees as compared with the seedling. They also go far to prove that if the day of the seedling orchard is not at an end, at least as far as future plantings are concerned, it should be. In a great many instances the losses which are popularly attributed to blight might have been materially lessened by more intelligent fertilization, cultivation and irrigation. The old seedling walnuts have in many cases exhausted almost all of the soil's available fertility and are going back; due both to lack of soil fertility and because of old age. The English walnut root does not seem to be able in all cases to adapt itself readily to changing climatic and soil conditions. It is too subject to frequent changes of temperature and the variable moisture content of the soil. While it may do well for a number of years, there come times when, because of peculiar climatic and soil conditions, the seedling tree fails to come up the requirement. The desirability of using grafted trees up to the present time has been recognized by but few walnut growers though now they are It would seem that every standpoint the trunk by far preferable, leaves the possibility of blight means of immune varies often been said that the so bad but what they good mixed in with its nut blight has been enormous losses to the ers, it has hastened the grafted walnuts with seedlings. By hastening of transition from the seedling epoch of the more stable scientific environment, it has been the most fitting the walnut industry plane with the other natural industries of our society. The idea of inoculating some antiseptic by boric trunk of the tree and injecting tree certain chemicals ploited, chiefly for prince certain unscrupulous pea walnut blight and pear if it were possible in this a tree immune to blight lence of those who have not extend much hope in it. It is hard for the popularceive of the fact that can injected into the trunk would not exercise the same on the tree similar to what the human system. Inject trunk the materials, which may be, will be taken up sap, carried to the leaves elements that can be used as food are transformed in form, while the others are products and may be used the plants. All the ed which has been done in way as regards the control gas or bacterial disease does not record a single in quent changes of temperature and the variable moisture content of the soil. While it may do well for a number of years, there come times when, because of peculiar climatic and soil conditions, the seedling tree fails to come up the requirement. The desirability of using grafted trees up to the present time has been recognized by but few walnut growers, though now they are commencing to realize more and more the advantages of the grafted tree as compared to the seedling. In light of our past experience with all fruit trees and with the walnuts themselves, it would seem almost useless to urge the planting of the grafted tree in preference to the seedling. The time will come when a person will no more think of putting out a seedling walnut orchard than he would of planting a seedling apple or orange orchard. The grafted trees insure one an orchard of walnuts all of one variety and not of as many varieties as there are trees in the orchard. Different varieties, all of them good, when mixed, will not command the price that each variety would if sold separately. Again, the grafted orchard will bear more uniformly, both as to quantity and quality, and will also come into bearing earlier than the seedling. If one has growing in his orchard a particular tree bearing a variety of walnuts superior to all the others This orchard, he will perpetuate its variety by grafting or budding from that particular tree. It will be possible for him to grow an orchard with every tree in it equal to the original tree from which he propagated. On the other hand, he he to plant the walnuts from this tree, he would find, as all have said, that instead of having an orchard of uniformly sized trees bear a uniform quantity and quality nuts of the same variety, he would be an orchard of the usual seed-type with each tree a different variety differing materially in size, quality and quantity of nuts produced. It is largely a matter of chance as to what kind of orchard one obtains when planting seedlings and whether or not will obtain even a single tree related to the parent tree. The grafted trees, too, allow one a piece of roots as best suited to parcel soils or conditions. There is particular reason, if one would select intelligently and carefully a variety, why one should not be a producing orchard bearing at least one hundred pounds of walnuts to the tree instead of having two or three such trees in the orchard. 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By hastening this period transition from the unscientific ing epoch of the past to the stable scientific era of the fulit has been the means of putthe walnut industry on the with the other great horticulindustries of our state, idea of inoculating the tree with antiseptic by boring holes into of the tree and injecting into the certain chemicals has been exd, chiefly for private gain, by unscrupulous persons, both in at blight and pear blight. Even ere possible in this way to make immune to blight, the experof those who have tried it does tend much hope in this direction. ward for the popular mind to conof the fact that chemicals thus ad into the trunk of the tree not exercise the same influence tree similar to what it would in man system. Injected into the the materials, whatever they will be taken upward with the arrived to the leaves, where the ants that can be used by the plant are transformed into organic while the others are left as waste ents and may be very injurious to ants. All the experimenting has been done in the scientific regards the control of any funbacterial disease by this means not record a single instance where reearly in the spring. CORONA, CALIF. Anaheim beer on draught. Steve being an old Anaheim boy, knows good beer. When in Corona come and see us. B. Dauser Dealer In all Kinds of GRAIN AND FEED Storage Warehouses And Custom Feed Mill in Connection Regular Mill Days, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. LOCATION—South of Santa Fe depot. it has been a success. As regards the application of chemica to the soil in the hope of making the tree more or less immune, something has been gained in an indirect way. The possibility of making the tree immune or resistant by soil application needs careful and very extended observation and experimentation. However, we do know that judicious fertilization will greatly increase the productivity of a walnut orchard to such a degree that in spite of the blight one can obtain remunerative returns. 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