Show an orchard help NN hile this iiii mi not be the proper aea season on for adice still the fol following loing article anken from an ex e change on electricity js a i 1 means of orchard pe pet pest t is worth reading and will ill probably be of benefit to it is eident that the users of electric it ire are but beginning eer everi little while we see some ome account of i ne aen use ue to chich electr electricity cit is 13 put an ue which something else and winch which is destined to occupy the held field ind and have hae a great future ahe latest use that we have bae s san cn publicly mentioned is that of destro destroying mg inject pests in orchards ba b means of an air electr electrical icil deuce deice applied by a washington apple gruwer grower who gave it a practical test in an ori hard near spokane not long ago the method of use is in the trees being provided with incandescent globes globe eich e ich of six si candle power these are netted with i fine steel wire coated alter alternately natel with copper and tin the rhe codling moths and other bug pests attracted by the lights fai against the wire netting completing the electrical circuit and the pests aie in instantly stantIN killed their bodies falling failing into a receptacle placed beneath the globe the estimate b bv the discoverer of this process is that one storage batter will furnish sufficient current for an acre field and that the cleaning out of the pests pelts will be even een more effectual ba b this means than by sp ing the electrical process is claimed also to be very much cheaper than spraying for a large orchard in which is 13 involved the payment of many person to do the sprat ine and the BD raving equipment and the do doe e used A further saving it is claimed ein cin be made in the electrical destruction of orchard pest by dispensing with ith the bitterich bitt enci and making a direct i connection with N ith the power or lighting wires the demonstration made is claimed to have hac been a 01 u success and it is said that many of the fruit growers broers of eastern washington are preparing to 10 put in this electrical device for de destroying the orchord pests the method as described would seem to be rationally ible ahn fists do lly fly about a good deal at night and undoubtedly would be attracted acted by the elc electric etric lights the device of wiring the lamps it is claimed would not involve ana an great cost and a whole orchard could be cleansed in a few nights by the use of this device |