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
I am sorry to say I don't have any information on these newer materials,
like DDT, methoxychlor and parathion. You have probably read about all
of those in the magazines. Some of the men in our department have done
quite a bit of work with these insecticides on the apple maggot in the
Hudson Valley and in Western New York and they find, as I mentioned
earlier, while it's possible to obtain control of apple maggot, say,
with DDT, it requires much more frequent application. In that case, if
any of you are orchardists or follow the apple-growing insect problems
at all, the first application of the walnut maggot spray should go on at
about the time the last cover spray for the coddling moth goes on for
the first brood. That sounds a little involved, but from the calendar
point of view it would be about July 25th in Central or Western New
York. Normally, with us here the cherries are being harvested by about
July 15th, sometimes a little earlier, but at any rate, that's the time
the flies usually begin to emerge.
We have what we call a pre-oviposition period of about two weeks, during
which time the flies are not laying any eggs in the shucks and are
moving around feeding. Of course, that is the time you have to get this
spray material on, before they have punctured the nuts and deposited
eggs inside.
I think, unless there are questions, that's all I have to say.
A MEMBER: You recommend No. 3 to be used?
DR. GAMBRELL: Lead arsenate at 3 lbs./100 gallons and 2 gal. of lime
sulphur would be an effective insecticide-fungicide mixture. I have used
both the wettable sulphur and lime sulphur, as shown here, without any
injury to foliage. Sometimes, as you know, if it's real hot, like today,
sulphur could cause you a lot of foliage injury. Dr. MacDaniels will
certainly bear me out on that.
PRESIDENT BEST: Now I think Joe McDaniel has a little idea here he wants
to introduce at this time.
DR. MACDANIEL: I have been talking with Mr. Devitt. He is interested in
following up these Carpathian trees in Ontario and is willing to act as
our agent in securing seed nuts from some of the better selected trees.
As I understand it, this Association couldn't properly act as a sales
agency for them, but I believe there are some of the members who would
like to get these superior seed nuts of Ontario, and I would be willing
to take the names of persons who are interested in them, either for
their personal planting or for resale. Mr. Devitt thinks he can secure
the nuts at about 60 cents a pound from the owners who have these good
trees and deliver them to the United States at around a dollar a pound.
Anyone who is interested in that, see me or Spencer Chase during the
remainder of the meeting.
Panel Discussion: The Persian Walnut Situation
_Moderator_: S. B. CHASE; _Panel Members_: H. L. CRANE, GILBERT BECKER,
J. C. MCDANIEL, H. F. STOKE.
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