The San Jose Or Chinese Scale (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The San Jose Or Chinese Scale (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Lester Marlatt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The San Jose or Chinese Scale The estimates given in our early publications of the seriousness of this pest have been more than borne out by the experience of the last ten years. Since its appearance on the Atlantic seaboard in the early nineties it has, in spite Of all efforts at control in nurseries and by State quarantine, spread well over the eastern and middle United States and into Canada, so that there are now very few regions where fruit growing is at all important in which it has not gained permanent foothold. Maine and a féw of the middle western States have not so far reported this scale insect, but it is only a question of time when it will complete its extension over the entire fruit-growing areas of North America within its climatic range. Nevertheless the San Jose scale has not been an unmitigated scourge, and the active investigations by the Bureau of Entomology of the United States Department of Agriculture and the entomologists of the State experiment stations have demonstrated the practicability of several means of control, and particularly of the lime-sulfur wash; so that the fears aroused by this scale insect are rapidly subsiding and it no longer is considered as an insurmountable obstacle to the growth of deciduous fruits. In the case of certain fruits, as, for example, the peach, it has been found that the lime-sulfur wash has a very great value as a fungicide, and so much so that some growers are recom mending its use whether the San Jose scale be present in the orchard or not. Furthermore, the presence of this scale has led to\ much more careful methods on the part of nurserymen and in the planting and care of stock, thus raising the standard and giving the intelligent and conscientious, painstaking grower a distinct advantage over his care less neighbor. The results in the East, in other words, are following rather closely on the experience in California and elsewhere on the Pacific coast, Where the San Jose scale, long looked upon as the worst menace of the deciduous-fruit interests, is now not necessarily so regarded, and the same benefits have come to California fruit growing by the use of better methods of planting, pruning, and care. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.