Show Orchard Pests Can Be Done Away With Good Fruit Is Produced by Healthy Trees By Dy IT n. n. n Gr Hold Field 1st 1st Colorado State College e. e One of or the best ways to control insect and disease pests in the orchard or or- chard chaid and to improve the quality of ot fruit truit this season Is to give the orchard orchard or or- chard a thorough cleaning This applies applies ap ap- ap plies especially to apple orchards Apple scab for tor Instance spreads from dead lea leaves lea yes which l have ave dropped from trees that were Infected infected in In- with the disease ase last season The leaves s should be bo raked up and burned or plowed under as as early as possible The codling moth winters over under under un un- un der del the loose bark and among the A TA mill T n. n nU T fl 11 I or boxes and other containers were stored This bark might be scraped from trees raked up and burn burned Make a general cleaning of ot such places as the codling moth Is likely to hibernate This clean up practice practice tice will reduce the number of ot worms in the fruit this season San Jose scale and other insects multiplied greatly during the 1931 crop year because of ot favorable weather conditions Spraying the trees with lime sulphur will keep this scale under control and the use of one of ot the tile commercial oil sprays will give control of ot the scurfy and shell oyster-shell scale Insects Some trees which are weak and andare andare andare are giving no goo good returns might be remove removed from the orchard or top top- worked by grafting In from a better better better bet bet- ter tree or variety |