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DALTON, GA.
Unexpectedly the first bale of
cotton of the new crop has reach¬
ed Augusta. It was shipped to
Clark «fe Butt from Americus by
H. M. Eldridge, of Sumter
ty. Last year the first new
was received on July 31,
Hattieville and sold at
for 19 1-2 cents a pound.
THE MURRAY NEWS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1906
VALUABLE REPORT
BY
Smith’s Report Before Georgia
Horticultural Society—Results
of Many Experiments of Great
Interest to Fruit Growers.
Macon, Ga., Aug. 11.—The
annual report of State Entomolo¬
gist R. 1. Smith to the Georgia
Horticultural Society here in the
meeting of last Tuesday and
Wednesday given an interesting
uccount otJthe experiments made
by the state board of entomology
in treating the woolly aphis, the
coding moth, peach leaf curl,
San Jose scale, brown rot and
other various difficulties which
are met in the production of
fruit in this state.
In part the report was as fol¬
lows :
Ever since commencing work
in Georgia I have been impress¬
ed with the great amount of
damage to the apple industry by
the woolly aphis, working ou the
roots, especially of nursery stock
and young apple trees
As this work was reported
fully last year I wili not take
time to outline the experiment.
Those who are interested can
refer to last year’s proceedings.
I will, however, give the differ¬
ent methods of treatment, which
were as follows: Tobacco dust
alone, tobacco dust and kainil
mixed in equal parts, tobacco
stems, tobacco decoction, com
tnon salt, kerosene emulsion,
whale oil soap, and carbon bisul¬
phide. All these insecticides
were applied to the roots of in¬
fested trees by removing a layer
of soil so as to expose the infest¬
ed roots, applying the tobacco,
kerosene emulsion, or whatever
was used, to the exposed surface,
and then replacing the soil.
The work this year at Baldwin
and Cornelia turned out in all
important respects, exactly like
the work in 1905, which was
conducted at Morrow, Ga. Ker¬
osene emulsion proved to be a
perfect remedy, and at any
strength between 10 per cent
and 30 per cent it did not show
any indication of having injured
the trees. The 15 per cent
emulsion was practically as
effective as the 30 per cent. The
smell of kerosense was evident
around the treated trees for
fully three months and in some
instances foi a longer time. The
woolly aphis were all killed by
kerosene emulsion wherever the
mixture touched the infested
roots. In our experience we find
that the aphis do not usually live
in injurious numbers on the roots
at a distance of more than 3 or 4
feet from the trunk of the trees,
and an area of that width can be
readily treated, if necessary.
Tobacco decoction, made by
, boiling tobacco stems in w ater,
applied in the same manner as
the kerosene emulsion, did not
give results, somewhat te our
surprise. One w’ould naturally
think that a strong tobacco water
would kill aphis in the soil, but
we were unable to obtain that
result. Common salt seemed to
lessen the number of aphis bet¬
ter than the tobacco dust, but
kainit or tobacco and kainit did
not kill an appreciable number j
of the insects.
This injurious apple pest, the
codling moth, has been the sub
ject of discussion and experi
ments for nearly a century, but
up until this season we do not
know of any extensive experi
ments, looking to its control,
having been undertaken in Geor
gia. Like the apple woolly
aphis our knowledge has been
based largely on work done in
other states. In Maryland in
1902, I had an opportunity of
commencing some spraying ex
periments, but those experi
ments were not followed up 1< ng
enough to give satisfactory in
formation. In Georgia we have
made numbers of observations
which have shown that the
i« causing a yearly loss to our
apple growers, greater probably,
than anyone realizes.
this we determined this year
commence some experimental
work with ansenical poisons and
other means of control, and also
to discover the exact life history
of the insect. Our experiments
have shown that we must not
depend too much on what writ¬
ers in other states claim about
this insect, and also that we
would not be justified in depend¬
ing too fully on only one year’s
work. If our board continues to
receive the present appropria
tion, we will arrange to continue
the experiments in 1907, and
possibly in 1908, The results
which we will obtain this fall
when the apples ripen, will give
us a definite basis for recommen¬
dations to apple growers next
year, but final conclusions will
not be advanced until the expe¬
riment has been followed two or
three seasons.
A number of spraying experi¬
ments with Bordeaux mixture,
lime-sulphur-salt wash, and lime
sulphur wash, were made this
last spring in Adairsville. Un¬
fortunately, the orchard where
these sprayings were made did
not develop much leaf curl, anu
though many other orchards in
north and middle Georgia suffer¬
ed severely from this disease.
Before planning the work we
knew that Bordeaux mixture,
properly applied, would control
leal curl, but we wished to deter¬
mine its comparative value with
the sulphur washes.
After failing to obtain results
from the experimental orchards,
we wrote to several orchardists
who sprayed with lime-sulphur
salt wash and lime-sulpher wash
All the replies, without except¬
ion, were to the effect that leaf
curl was successfully prevented
by either of the sulphur washes.
In the past fruit growers have
not known definitely that a sim¬
ple mixture of lime and sulpher
as used to control the San Jose
scale, would also effectually pre¬
vent development of leaf curl.
Now we are certain about this
point; and this knowledge is of
no minor importance. Peach
growers whose orchards are in¬
fested with San Jose scale may
now control both scale and leaf
curl by spraying once in January
or February with lime-sulphur \
wash as recommended in bulletin
No. 17 of the state board of
mology.
Experiments with various
washes, and particularly with
the soluble oil, sold under the
names Kil-o-scale. Scalecide
and Target Brand Emulsion, were
made in the fall and winter of
1905-06. The lime-sulphur wash¬
es gave uniformly satisfactory
results. The soluable oils were
very variable, so much that we
are not inclined to either recom¬
mend or condemn their use,
Certain large orchards sprayed
with the soluable oils, examined
by the writer in April and May
of this year, showed rather
poor results. Mr. Lewis, Mr.
Chase and myself have all had
an opportunity of visiting several
orchards where Scalecide was
used and the results do not com¬
pare favorably with lime-sulphur
washes. The same is true of
Target Brand Emulsion,
The assertion is often made,
and justly so, that the oil solu
tions are so much easier to apply
than the lime-sulphur washes,
This is very true. But until we
are assured the results from their
use will be equal we are not
willing to give an indorsement of
soluble oils. One prime reason
for going slow about recommend
i»g soluble oils is that the trees
do not receive any benefit aside
from the destruction of scale;
while the lime-sulphur wash, as
mentioned above, will prevent
leaf curl and act as a fungicide
in other respects,
The brown rot of peaches has
been the source of considerable
loss this year, and in past years,
to the Georgia peach growers,
Bordeaux mixture as a remedy
was first tested in 1902 in Geor
gia by Professor W. M. Scott,
The results obtained from that
work was not entirely satisfact
ory, as the mixture defoliated
the trees so badly that it seemed
unsafe to recommend general
spraying. He did, however, dis¬
cover that brown rot might be
prevented to a certain extent.
On account of insufficient assist¬
ance the experiment was not
continued in 1903. In 1904 the
work was again taken up and the
result reported by. Mr. Wilmon
Newell, former state entomolo¬
gists, in the proceedings of this
society for that year. Those
who received the report will
recall that peaches did not rot
that year in the main part of the
orchard where u'e made the ex
periment. Alexander peaches
lusted with dry Bordeaux were
prevented from rotting to quite
a market degree, the saving
amounting to nearly fifty crates
per thousand trees.
This season we determined to
make another careful experi¬
ment. Arrangement was made
with the manager and president
>f the Elberta Fruit Farm, four¬
teen miles south of Macon,
where we w'ere to spray about
300 trees in any manner neces¬
sary to obtain accurate results.
Mr. Jewett, of this city, mana¬
ger of the orchard, offered to
furnish the material and labor
necessary to carry out the expe¬
riment. The arrangement for
this work w'as not made in time
to spray when the peaches were
first formed, as we would like to
have done, so the first applica¬
tion of Bordeaux was made on
May 3. At that date the peaches
were about three-forths of inch
in diameter. For this experi
mental work we adopted the
Bordeaux formula (3-9-50,) that
is, three pounds of blue stone to
nine pounds of stone lime in fifty
gallons of water. Results were
very poor.
HER RED ORCHIDS
French Marquise Who Is One of Many to
Burn Up Their Money.
(From the Chicago Chronicle.)
When the people have more
money than they know what to
do with they sometimes develop
a remarkable ingenuity in devis
ing methods of squandering it,as
j„ t) ie case of the French mar
q„i se , who, according to the pa
p erg( has her bed strewn with
rtre ft nd exquisite orchids at a
cost of several thousand dollars a
week.
Even more remarkable is the
stoiy told of a wealthy French
mm who dines twice a week at a
famous Parisian restaurant. His
appetite is of the poorest, but he
always insists on having a tureen
filled with a specially prepared
soup placed before him. Next
c unes a huge joint of meat, from
which he cuts one tiny slice.
Then follows four quails or a large
chicken, of which he eats one
mouthful. His dessert consists
of four grape and a cup of coffee
while during the meal he
moistens his lips from a bottle of
expensive claret and another of
the finest champagne. At the
conclusion of each meal, for
which he pays $25, he hands $8
to the head waiter, $4 to the
waiter who has attended him, $2
to the woman cashier and $1 to
the porter.
A weird form of extravagance
was that of a woman named Hil¬
ler, who recently buried her hus¬
band in a $20,000 coffin. The
casket was make of richly carved
mahogany, w’ith solid gold trim¬
mings (a single knob costing
$1,750) and lined with silk,which
is said to have cost 75 cents an
inch.
The nizani of Hyderabad has a
set of false teeth for which lie
paid a Madras dentist $3,000, and
Dixie W. Thompson, a wealthy
rancher of Santa Barbara, OaL,
not long ago spent $3,750 on a
saddle, which is of the finest em¬
bossed leather, heavily and
elaborately mounted with silver.
Henry G. Marshall lavished
000 on a grand piano,
painted by Sir L.
and studded with precious .
Jan Van Beers has a piano,
miracle of painting, precious
metals and jewels, which cost
him $30,000.
One of the most remarkable
cases of extravagance on record
was the indulging by the sultan
of Turkey of a child’s whim. One
day the sultan found Ins small
son in tears because though he
had been promised to be made
an admiral, he could not see his
(lag hoisted on a particular ship.
The sultan promptly had the ves¬
sel brought up and moored in
front of the Dolmabagtchen, to
the child’s great delight. In or¬
der, however to biing the vessel
to the required position, it was
necessary to pull down a newly
constructed bridge, which at the
sultan’s bidding was done at a
cost of $500,000.
GREGORY
Sam Lackey and Miss Bertha
Dunn w T ere united in marriage
Sunday. Mr. Lackey is one of
Old Fort’s best young men. Miss
Dunn is one of the most charm¬
ing belles of this place. We
extend to them our congratula¬
tions.
W. D. Gregory visited our
school h£re last week.
Elijah Dunn has returned to
his home after a short stay at
Eton.
Miss Ora Berry spent Sunday
evening with Miss Maud Greg¬
ory.
Jake Higgins, Misses Georgia
Gregory and Joe Waters were
seen out driving Sunday evening.
Quite a number of our youug
people enjoyed themselves
“hugely” at the picnic at
Oohutta Springs last Saturday.
D. 0. Dunn made a business
trip to Spring l’luce this week.
Mrs. Bob Harris visited Mrs.
Shields Sunday.
Floyd Dunn and family visited
W. II. Whittle at Fairy Sunday.
Miss Ida Shields attended
Sunday school at the Masonic
hall Sunday.
Miss Ida Dunn spent one even¬
ing last week with her brother,
Luther Dunn.
G. W. Hayes made a business
trip to Dalton last w r eek.
Fred Thomson, of Little Mur¬
ray, passed through our burg
Sunday.
Jake Higgins and Miss Ida
Shields called on Miss Joe Wat¬
ers and Ida Dunn one day last
week. Trix.
Galveston’s Sea Wall
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city as on the higher uplands.
E. W. Goodloe, who resides on
Dutton St., in Waco, Tex.,needs
no sea wall for safety. He writes:
“I have used Dr. King’s New
Discovery for Consumption the
past five years and it keeps me
well and safe. Before that time
I had a cough which for years had
been growing worse. Now it’s
gone.” Cures Chronic Coughs,
LaGrippe, Croup, Whooping
Cough and prevents pneumonia.
Pleasant to take. Every bottle
guaranteed at C. O, Cole’s gener¬
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Trial bottle free,
OAKLAND
Rev. Frank Davis filled his
regular appointment at this place
Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. U. N. Jones were
the guests of their daughter, Mrr,
Young near Holly one night last
week.
Arthur Roberts dined with
Oscar Stuart Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Coffee, of
Pleasant Valley, visited at the
home of W. H. Roberts and
family Sunday night.
Mrs. Tom Moreland attended
meeting at this place Sunday.
J. R. Townsend visited his
father and mother near Dalton
last Sunday.
Luther Stuart visited Walter
Jones Sunday.
W. H. Roberts made a business
trip to Dalton one day last week.
V. A. Stuart passed through
our burg Saturday.
Honeysuckle.
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