Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting: Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953
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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
Dr. Glasgow and I found that on cherry maggot in the city, while a
material like lead arsenate is very effective in a commercial orchard,
it's very ineffective for just one little tree in your own back yard,
providing your neighbors have some trees and they don't spray them. The
reason is very obvious: the flies don't necessarily stay on the same
tree. They visit around from tree to tree, they feed on the surface of
the leaves or fruit. Therefore, it's possible for them to be over on
someone else's unsprayed tree and still come over and lay eggs in the
nuts of a sprayed walnut tree before being killed. So you can see that
such activity may create somewhat of a problem.
At any rate, the lead arsenate spray of three pounds to a hundred
gallons, with or without fungicides, has given good control in the past.
That No. 3 combination of lime sulphur and lead arsenate was used west
of Rochester here around Hilton where this grower had a commercial fruit
planting, but he also had a number of English walnuts. The year prior to
the time these trees were sprayed he had about 40 per cent of the nuts
infested, and the year these were sprayed the infestation dropped they
came down to about one percent. Notice the comment at the foot of the
table which states that the trees that were not treated the following
year went back up to 20 per cent of the nuts infested. There were about
20 per cent of the trees that had infestation. Of course, the flies
moved around enough that the trees became reinfested. It simply brings
out the point that unless you have a pretty good-sized planting, you are
going to have to spray pretty thoroughly in order to get control, and
also, if you only have one or two trees and you have a lot of
surrounding shrubbery and a lot of trees, it would be very wise to also
spray those, unless they are plums or peaches, which are quite
susceptible to arsenical injury. But most things would stand the
arsenate of lead, and it would be very desirable, wherever you can, to
spray surrounding trees and shrubs close to the walnuts themselves, and
in so doing you would get pretty effective control. It is quite possible
to use this control method and obtain over 80 per cent reduction in
infestation.
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