Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting: Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953
Science
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting: Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953
Northern Nut Growers Association -- Periodicals; Nut trees -- Periodicals; Nuts -- Periodicals
(Next slide.) This is a picture of maggot injury on black walnut. They
don't seem to like the black walnuts as well as they do the Persian
walnut and butternut.
(Next slide.) This is one of the hybrid English walnuts that is located
on the grounds at the Geneva Experiment Station. It's quite a large
tree. I don't know the name of it. Maybe you do, George.
MR. SLATE: It has no name.
DR. GAMBRELL: It's not very fruitful, anyway, is it? But it is also
susceptible to injury.
(Next slide.) This photograph was made quite a few years ago, and that
explains some of the lines around it, but at any rate, this pile of nuts
shows the damaged ones that came from one tree, and also the ones that
were not infested. In other words, about two-thirds of the nuts on that
particular tree had been infested with maggots.
(Next slide.) That's a close-up view and is the type of thing I was
trying to describe to you earlier where the shucks dry up and stick to
the nut so that you cannot remove them. Those on the left, of course,
would be absolutely no good for commercial purposes.
(Next slide.) Now, I suppose you are all interested in this matter of
control. Unfortunately, I must admit that I have not worked on the
walnut husk maggots very much in the last 15 or 20 years. You may recall
that we had a severe freeze back in 1933 or 1934, which took out quite a
lot of our Persian walnuts in Western New York, and only the hardier
trees remained. But prior to that time we had been getting numerous
complaints, from growers about injury from walnut husk maggots, and we
did some work at that time and also worked with the Farm Bureau people
in the counties where walnuts were grown fairly commonly. In many cases
these Persian walnuts were grown on fruit farms where they also have
apples and other fruits. So that in those cases it was not a difficult
problem to obtain control. We worked out a program whereby, say,
beginning about July the 20th to the 25th, at which time quite a few of
the flies would have emerged, if the orchardist, when he was going
through with his regular spray operation on his fruit trees, would give
his walnuts at least two applications at about two weeks intervals, he'd
cease to have a maggot problem. That pretty well solved it, as far as
they were concerned. But there were also these other plantings where
you'd have just a few trees, or possibly one tree in a back yard,
something of that sort, which is a little bit more difficult to control.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account