Show correspondence frigm for OH 04 paper VOICE OP OF THE BEE KEEPER it I have read a maxim said bald ta t have been david crockett Urock etl he be sure aure y you 0 u are right then go ahead s it matters matte r b little how bow sure bure or positive po ellive we may b that we are right to too run up against nearly an entire community and with very little help la is but an encouraging cou raging while we were just ar sure bore last year tuat tast we were right in ac 1 erting that the moth deposited t oa 01 f eggs on the apple and not in the falos om the odds odda were so BO strong against u that thai we could make but very tory little progress pro gref it was almost almont a life and death struggle ruggle tt to save cave the bees bee from destruction by those who that the only proper method to got get rid ria of the codling moth was waa to pray when the trees were in bloom bees or no bees bee over three hundred people remarked to me lat last year that the oam ing would have been more effectual it if the tress trees had been beeb prayed while in bloom but bui when we asked aked this people to give their heir reason for this belli f the omy answer we received was that bat the prevailing opinion was that me moth laid their eggs in the blossom bloom now it if I 1 did not know knew that I 1 am right in this matter I 1 would not it farther and if it were not that thit thib method of spraying in the bloom diu did nut not threaten the very existence of the tb trees tree the abe beekeeper beekeepers bee keepers keepen might lot jet it pass par but knowing know log as aa we do dug the la consia teney oi of spraying praying in the bloom and also alao its if ID injurious jurious on the bees bea anu and fruits fruita we do not teel feel like shirking tb abe of our mite to try und and protect this valuable industry now then those who are opposed to 10 us in this matter anu add the low few tuat are so BO positive that the moth jay tbell eggs iu in the blossom should otter offer some proof th t they are they abou bouic id investigate the proof we offer them every person in the territory who sprayed in the bloom last jaet year a u once alter after if they know anything ol of its ito effects will tell you that it was waa is a total failure while the baray preying ing dune done later was irom from a partial tu to a full one euc coss ceu asne from what we have said before on thin matter every one knows known or can know if they will inhere loter ert t themselves that but the be moth do not lay jay ta lr eggs to in the he bloom and abey way may easily see ee the effect of 01 their work iu it the apple we have the tb assurance urance ar 01 prot cook cooil to this effect we have re olivea the abe following letter recently from the professor on the ubert subject of 01 bees and spraying CLAREMONT CAli california fornis feb bbb 1895 mr mf E K 8 lovesy daar air say bay to your people that the coddling moth do not lay jay eggs till lill the aloa finx fall day bay also that thai tile the poison is ia slowly removed so eo that it Is i never wie to apply it till necessary to spray before the bloxsome blora bl orsome fall la unwise to ba a a JV nothing about its ita effect on bees no N u one spray till blossoms all fall polley policy anu and justice alike affirm this i yours truly A J coom COOK I 1 wah to say bay to all our cruit growing gro winit friends that having read much of prot prof cooka works on fruit and other insect posts pests and how tu to destroy thera gand alo rom from a personal acquaintance having met him bim in this city and also in chicago t the world is bee convention in 1893 we conversed convened with him ou on the subject of fruit pear past and spraying and also alio of his many experiments with Jor lormuel lorm muse uee to destroy the pests eats and protect the been and fruit ft it Is 14 generally brally conceded that the professor to ie one of the best belt it if nut the very best beat authority in the united states on these subjects subject he restates states that any mixture strong enough to kill the couling codling moth will also kill the bres bees with the experience peri ence that we have hud had we can unsure our fruit growers that the eggs are deposited on the apple and not dot in tbt tb olos blossom som we can show them in all ali stages from the new laid egg to tae tiny liny larva as it commences commence to bure bore ito ite way into the fruit when it reach ea 08 maturity it leaves the 06 apple and in some concealed spins its ite cocoon and to la about six alx lx weeks bom the 1130 time be egg la in deposited on the apple the moth issues from its cocoon only to repent repeat the same destructive the got fot that the early fruit is comparatively free from the ata is in bruot against the blossom theory as in that case came it would buffer as much as an the late fruit now the cotra are these in utah the moth do not appear in numbers to do much harm before laih to the of june varying some with the abo season sen hence WO we see bee that the very early fruit la Is so far sti that it if it were attacked much of r i would ripen and fall before the larva could reach development develop meni hence they work more on the late fruit fur furini ti 1 reasin also aloo the spraying commenced last year about the middle of june and kept up until september was a success suc ceas while the he early spraying was a total failure it is ie vie nature of the moth to glut gluf its eidge OK gs on the fruit fur for safe kee pinic nil lill they hatch batch and this could not noi be on the blossom and aad our friend C P badent of hamilton agrees with us in the statement that the do not and canoot cannot denoel i heir eggs in the blob bloxsom som even it if abo thy y were ti oree resent ent owing to the fact th ahn the pi pistils stiles points in all bloom prote t the embryo fruit from injury by an insect we have been challenged tu to prove that the bees are not the cause I 1 i the codling moth many assert that the bee moth and the codling moth are one ins and wis he same until some of our horticulturists assert toom in put pui lo ito 10 that bat they believed eelie thin bis to be true wt wr did not doom deem it necessary to reply having supposed suppo eed it to be too absurd far relief the cause of this absurd theory is became the motu was imported to utah in fruit boxes and beet were imported at about the same time soon afier the pacific railroads were completed in regard to the bee and codling moth there to is very little resemblance rhe fhe beo ben moth la fit tw twice I 1 ce as aa larew as we the codling moth as also is tae larva anu ano i the he larva of the bee moth la Is a milky whites white while the he larva of the goodli a moth is of a pinkish hue bue we have plainly chown that abat the bees ar are i of 01 responsible lor for the he codling codding moth m and we have also shown the inconsistency of spraying the bloom to kill the bes bee an ani destroy ibb tb fruit by washing the pollen off at the ontario convention the rg e view says say mr hall told of a neigh neighbor bor who sprayed arrayed his bia plum tress while in full carithe pelting getting of i not ot mure more than half a dozen plum rum from his hia plum orchard while whilo other neighbors that diani dian 4 even spray at all nad had fair crops of pluma some fruit was destroyed in abis way last year A heavy rain storm atoru will destroy fruit in like manner A case in point is that of a gentleman rent leman living livine at troutburg Trout burg now new york near dear a lake inks the cold breezes from the lake retarded his bla so BO that they blossomed blow omed ft a week batir than cla whop just as ae his bia trees cams into blo im a heavy rain set bet lo in the result was waa that mat be had bad no fruit on the tb late varieties lep A lw of the early varieties lei bore a part of a crop while hla ble neighbors whose whole trees blog luard d a week ealier had full crop orope we have heard board of a care came of a fruit brower in oregon when his bia train treba wore were in bloom being chilly cold leather be n that hi bia b beba e m worked mostly on the warmest alue iu e 0 of f the tress trees aud and in the same ratio the moat of the fruit was waa on that side aide we could give many illustrations to prove that mat bees are necessary necea aary fur for fertil fe ivalon for the successful growing of many fruits and plants planta thus we gas ae alnut it should be to each later inter et that they work in hai mony both bobb in n raising and disposing of their pro ducts it if our beekeeper bee keepen ns horticulture ste ata aud and agriculturists would toroa aa a eze exchange bange and unite as aa they should they liny lin y do much to prevent the utter demoralization of our home booms market respectfully 1 ly E tf 6 lovedy |