| Show CARE FOR MR it is the time of year to look after the he insects in the orchards san jose scale beale is now in nearly all parts of the county and as a matter of protection I 1 would advise all to spray with lime sulphur in the dormant stage loth both for scale and other insects as well as for a fung eside it is well known that commercial lime will to a rest great extent help to control the california peach blight with which we are so greatly troubled also for the red spider which Is present in great numbers in nearly all orchards and are very destructive sucking the sap of the trees it Is also good tor for many other insects that infest your trees that can be controlled by lime sulphur property properly applied from a financial standpoint it seems that every one would see the necessity of taking care of their orchards c h ards 0 ano o one would think ot oi letting their animals go a without attention altho they can to some extent I 1 rid themselves of the pst but if nothing is said a great many will vall let their trees get so infected with insect pests that you cant see the bark tor for insects and then wonder why the tree Is not profitable Of coarse there is no use spraying if t their Is nothing to spray for but does docs that condition exist personally I 1 dont know ol of such a case tor for if ff Is not present another is perhaps not in so great numbers as I 1 I 1 have described but remember an ounce of preventative is worth a pound ot of cure it Is not fair to your fellow man who Is trying to take care cara ot of his orchard and make a living out of 0 it it he has to protect himself a galust gain st your T our the day has gone wh when you can spread an infecting disease with impunity then why should you force your neighbor to suffer loss by your neglect our laws forbid it yet you y ou will matie make a any i kind ot of an ex excuse cusaAo to avoid your shie Bhare at ot the expense and there thereby b y reap an int ferfer harvest or suffer a total loss on account of your carelessness as aa many did dia last year As it is unlawful to sell as fruit the products of the orchard infested with scale or worms the fruit business will not be profitable so long as we try to put on the market wormy and inferior fruit the only way we can succeed is to so handle our fruit that when it gets on the market it will be attractive and any person who by false pretenses or otherwise manages to get a few cars of wormy or scaly fruit upon the he market in competition with good fruit is not helping to build up the fruit industry ol 01 0 this or any other state now let me urge you to get busy and spray before the buds swell then take care of your fruit so that when harvest time comes you wont be like so many where last year unable to market tho the the demand was good then blame the inspector for not compelling you to spray he cant save yu unless you will do your part lie ha can and will be glad to help you CARL ISAACSON |
