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Mississippi State News *■ The San Jcee Scale. As many of our readers are en gaged in fruit culture, and for the further reason that we are satisfied it will prove of interest to them. ' ' we give space this week to the arti ele below on the much dreaded "San Jose Seale." It is from the pen of Frol, (ilenn \\. Herrick, entainolo-! gist of the Mississippi Agricultural ., ,, , . ,, ° , College, and is well worth reading. It follows: This is one of the most injurious insects to which peach and plum trees are subject; and, although It is widely distributed over the State, very few fruit growers are sufficiently familiar with it to recognize it when present in their orchards. Probably no insect has been the sub ject of more discussion or experimen tation than the San Jose Scale, and small wonder, for it is the most perni cious insect pest to which the fruit interests of this country are subject. As near as can be determined, this insect was introduced on fruit trees into the grounds of Mr. James Lick, of San Jose, Cal., in the early '70s. By 1886 or 1887 it had been imported into Eastern nurseries and from this time on began to spread over the East and South. It Is supposed that the in sect originally came from China. This pest is a small, louse-like in sect, Just visible to the naked eye. it lives beneath a hard, round, waxy scale on the outside of the bark of the trees. The scales, which are con ical and about as large as pin heads, become so numerous on the trees as to form a gray, scrubby and continu ous layer over the branches. The in sects are well protected by the scales, and they have long slender beaks which they insert through the outer bark into the tender tissues of the tree, thus enabling them to suck the juices from the tree, thereby killing it, or greatly injuring it. On account of the waxy scales, these insects are very difficult to reac* with any sub stance. The mature females give birth to their young, which issue in the spring just about this time—from the first to the middle of May, After the young are produced, the old females shrivel tip and die, 'while the young come out from under the scales and wander around over the trees searching for places on which to settle down where they may insert their beaks and begin secreting their scaly covering. While the young Insects are wandering over the trees, they are unprotected and may be easily killed. One can see the young Insects with the naked eye, especially on trees where they are abundant. They appear as minute, yellow lice moving slowly about. There are two things in regard to the San Jose Scale that I wish to em phasize particularly in this paper. The first is the unprotected state of the fruit growers in Mississippi. Nearly all of our surrounding States have laws prohibiting nurserymen trom sending their stock into those States unless such nursery stock has been fumigated and regularly inspected by a competent entomologist. Moreover, the stock must be accompanied by a certificate, from an entomologist to the effect that it is free from San Jose Scale and other injurious in sects and diseases. Not so with Mis sissippi, This State has been the dumping ground, as it were, for nur sery stock from other parts of the Union, infested or otherwise. How long are the people of our State go ing to suffer this? ' I .ramed a care ful bill and placed it before our last legislature, but wgs told that the peo ple of the State had not asked for such legislation. So, after all, the peo ple are to blame for their own suffer ings. If you ask your legislators for relief, you will surely get it. In every case in which the scale has been re ported to me 1 have traced it. to trees A Warning to Southern Girls. The most stupendous and auda cious scheme which the world ever witnessed is being organized and'op erated at this time to lure young girls from the towns of this and other States into the dens of iniquity in St. Louis. The matter has come to light through the • abortive at tempts of some of the agent! of the syndicate engaged in this traffic of iniquity, and the most determined efforts to stop the practice are being set on foot by the people of the city of St. Louis, as well as those of other cities and towns where the syndicate hopes to recruit its victims, plan of the syndicate is to procure young women from the working classes to come to St. Louis under promise of employment during the World's Fair season, and then to meet them at the depot in St. Louis and conduct them to some brothel, where their feet are set in the wavs of ruin and their lives are hopelessly wrecked before they can lie readied by any possible assistance. Easy to Borrow. The failure to make the appro priation of $30,000 for the support of the oyster commission was purely a legislative oversight, and it will bo an easy matter for the commis sion to borrow this sum at a small rate of interest for the next two years, the amount to be reimbursed by the session of 1906. The legis lators certainly could not refuse to appropriate the amount when the failure was the result of careless ness. The No Special Session. There is no probability of a spe cial session of the Mississippi legis lature to remedy defects in appro priation hills, all rumors and re ports emanating from space writers to the contrary notwithstanding. Gov. Vardaman has not even seri ously considered the advisability of convening the body in special session, for confidence is felt that adjust ment can be .made of present diffi culties without this recourse. th ;s *;lnd. every buyer of fruit trees should demand that their trees be ac companied by a certificate of inspec tlon lrom a competent entomologist |° e th s e ca ^ ect that they are free trom The second thing 1 wish to discuss is a 1116,110,1 ot combatting this insect jin the summer. Some fruit growers brought from some nursery outside of the Stale—thus the necessity of a law requiring nursery stock to be inspect ed before it is shipped from the nur sery. Since Mississippi has no law are losing their trees this spring from the effects of the work of tills scale, and unless they do something right away, more trees will die before tall. Summer, however, is not the best time to fight the scale, because it is diffi cult to get a substance that will kill the insects and not hurt the foliage of the trees. Winter is the best timl to combat the scale. On the other hand, there are some things that can be done in summer to hold the scale in check. Perhaps the best substance for this purpose is an emulsion made of kerosene oil and soap. It may be made according to the following for mula: 2 pounds of hard soap. 4 gallons of soft water. 8 gallons of kerosene oil. Place the soap in the water over a fire and heat until it is thoroughly dis solved. Pour the oil into a barrel in which the pump is set, and when the water and soap are boiling hot, pour them both into the oil. Pump the mixture with vigor back into itself for ten or fifteen minutes, or until the soap and oil form a creamy mixture. This should then be diluted to 80 gal lons and applied with a good barrel spray pump with two leads of hose, each hose fitted with a "Vermorel" or "Mistry" nozzle. The "Century" bar rel sprayer, manufactured by the De ming Company, Salem, O., the "Po mona" pump manufactured by the Gould's Manufacturing Company., Seneca Falls, N. Y., and the "Empire King" pump manufactured by the El mira Force Pump Company, Elmira, N. Y., are all good pumps for this work. If the trees are small, the emulsion may be applied with a knap sack sprayer. Knapsack sprayers are also manufactured and sold by all of the above named companies. One should use great care and coat ail the branches and trunks with the mixture. It would be well to give the trees two sprayings about thirty days apart. The scale can also be very effective ly checked during the summer by the use of the lime-salt-sulphur wash. This is pre-eminently a winter wash, but can be used with efficiency during the cummer. It kills - e foliage, however, and cannot be applied to the leaves with a spray pump. It is made accord ing to the following formula: 15 pounds of sulphur. 15 pounds of quick lime. 5 pounds of salt. 45 gallons of water. The lime Bnould be slaked in three or four gallons of hot water in a ket tle holding at least 20 gallons. When the lime is nearly slaked, but before it quits boiling, add the fifteen pounds of sulphur and enough hot water to make a thin paste of the lime and sul phur. Stir the lime and sulphur vig orously until they are thorouu, mixed. Then add the five pounds of salt, and boil vigorously tor 45 min utes. Be sure the mixture boils for 45 minutes. When through boiling apply to the trunks and branches with a brush or mop, being careful not to touch the foliage. The more thor oughly and carefully the branches are coated the more efficiently the scale will be checked. I shall be glad to answer any ques tions relative to the scale and spray ing mixtures and apparatus. I>ater in the year we shall discuss the best known winter remedies for the scale and give our own results with the use of the lime-salt-sulphur wash. GLENN W. HERRICK, Entomologist. Agricultural College, May 12. Railroad Commission. The Mississippi ralroad commis sion has received a letter from the Hector Provision Company of Vicks burg asking for a whether or not a railroad has the right to hold the freight of a con signee for demurrage due ear serv ice assiciations, and, if so, under what statute does this authority ex The company addressed a let ter to tlie attorney-general asking for an ipinion on the subject, but Mr. Williams declined on the ground that he is the legal adviser of the commission, and could not give an official opinion to an individual, but suggesting that the matter be re ferred to the railroad commission. as to ruling ist. A New Industry. The certificate of incorporation of the Lignum Product Company, domiciled at Wilmington, Del., with a capital stock of $30,000, was filed for record in the office of thb sec retary of State this morning. The company intends to establish a large turpentine distillery in the piney woods region of South Mississippi. Military Encampment. The list of towns anxious to secure the encampment of the Mississippi national guard during the latter part of August is growing. Pass Christian, Natchez and Hails Springs have, al ready determined to set the attrac tions of their respective localities before the committee when the time arrives for selecting the place for the holding of the encampment, which will not occur until June. Columbus, Biloxi, Convention Doings. A number of the county Demo cratic executive committees held meetings last week, according to the call of the chairman, and issued an order for the various voting pre cincts to organize in mass conven tion and select by secret ballot dele gates to attend the county conven tion, which will select the county delegates to the State Democratic convention to meet in Jackson on June 15. The Coll Weevil Fight A late Washington dispatch, dis cussing the boll weevil fight, says: Work has already begun, under the direction of the field agents of the di vision of entomology of the bureau ot plant Industry of the department of agriculture, seeking means for fight ing the cotton boll weevil. Congress realized the danger to the cotton in dustry in this pest when the appropria tion of $500,000 was made for the pur pose of fighting it. Fifteen stations have been selected in Texas, where cotton will be culti vated under the direction of the spe cial men in the employ of the depart ment, and the work of the weevil with the growth of the cotton plant will be closely watched and recorded. In the meantime investigation is being made into the origin of the insect in Mex ico to ascertain, if possible, whether it has a natural enemy which may be introduced into Texas. The discover ies of the investigation so far ad vance little hope for Its ultimate de struction. There is In press now, however, a bulletin of 116 pages, dealing entirely with the weevil. It will be issued soon and distributed to the growers and planters in the infested area. It is prepared under the direction of Field Agents W. E. Hunter and W. D. Hinds, and is said to be a most com plete treatise. The following extract from the bulletin relating to the pros pects of the spread of the insect is believed to be of special interest at this time. That the great cotton growing sec tion of Mississippi may not escape in vasion is a serious question to contem plate. The extract referred to reads as follows: "The investigations of the life his tory of the weevil have indicated that the most important elements in limit ing the spread of the insect—namely, winter temperatures—in this case of fer no assurance that the pest will soon be checked. For the past ten years, except where local unfavorable conditions have interfered, it has ad vanced annually a distance of about fifty miles. The insect is undoubtedly changing its habits and adapting itself to climate conditions in new regions that it is invading. It is undoubted ly true that it has acquired an ability to withstand more severe frosts than occurred in the vicinity of San An tonio in 1895. Except in a few partic ular regions, however, It does not seem that the continued spread will be as rapid as it has been. The coun try between Gonzales county and the Red river is practically a continuous cotton field, and the prevailing winds have undoubtedly favored the north ward spread of the insect. Similar conditions will now favor a rapid ex tension into the Red river valley in Louisiana, and likewise there seems no doubt that the spread will be rapid in the Yazoo valley in Mississippi, but in most other situations through out the belt the cotton fields are smaller and more Isolated than is the case in Texas; consequently it is to be supposed that the spread of the pest will be "Basing estimates on a careful study of the distance the boll weevil has traveled each year, as well as upon some attention that has been paid to the means whereby it reaches new ter ritory, it seems safe to predict that in from fifteen to eighteen years the pest will be found throughout the cotton belt. During the time it has been in Texas there has been no tendency toward dying out, and in South Texas the pest is practically as troublesome, except in so far as it is affected by changes in managing the crop, as it was in 1895. In Mexico, where it has existed for a much longer period, it is apparently as plentiful as ever. Care ful attention which has been paid to the study of parasites and diseases, as well as temperatures unfavorable to the insect, has failed to reveal any prospect that it will ever be much less troublesome than now. There will, nevertheless, be seasons from time to time in which the damage will be much less than normal. Climatic con ditions will undoubtedly cause tem porary diminution of the numbers of the pest in certain localities. In Texas these conditions have given rise al most every year to the supposition on the part of the planters that the in sects have died out. Whenever a se ries of years of scanty rainfall is fol lowed by one of normal precipitation the weevil will temporarily be com paratively unimportant. The most disastrous seasons will be those in which the rainfall is excessive and planting unavoidably thrown late. "The fact that the insect is rather rapidly adapting itself to conditions In the United States that are quite diverse from those of its native home loads to the supposition that it would experience but little difficulty in adapting itself to climate conditions wherever cotton may be grown. This probability of the spread of the weevil outside of the United States is In creased by the fact that cotton seed for planting purposes is frequently shipped from the United States to va rious parts of the globe. • There la nothing whatever to prevent weevils that may happen to be sacked with cotton seed from being carried long distances on shipboard. Fine Peach Crop; Mississippi will have a splendid poach crop this year. From all parts of the State come reports that the trees arc loaded to the break ing point with the luscious fruit, and within the next two weeks the home-grown crop will commence to arrive on the market in large quan tities. Baldwin Gets Religion. Albert Baldwin, the negro mur derer of Engineer Thomas Fogarty, who is in the Jackson jail await ing the death sentence, has eortiered a very choice assortment of religion, very much to the disgust of the other inmates of the jail, who are being kept awake for a greater portion of the night with his prayers and shouts of "Glory to Jesus!" Bald win's religiojts turn of mind is due to the visits of negro preachers. Petitions for Pardons. Petitions have been made to Gov. Yardatnan for the pardon of Will Dunn, who was sentenced to tha State penitentiary for life from Holmes county in 1896. The rea son assigned for asking Dunn't pardon are that he has been n peace able man, a faithful convict, and that an old mother needs his sup port. The governor is also asked to pardon Jim Hooker, who is now serving a seven years' sentence. EIGHT BISHOPS Five Will Be Elected to Take Place of Retired Ones. MAY TAKE VOTE WEDNESDAY >Ii iy Nuine* llavt* H«*«*i Mentioned for tlit* Ponlttonn— Mutter of A\ lUMVinenlN t< He Taken I p. Los Angeles, Cal., May 16.—Sunday was welcomed by the delegates to the Methodist general conference as a day of rest, after a week of continuous sessions, either of the conference or of the various committees. While enough visiting bishops and ministers volunteered their services to the pul pit supply committee to fill every pul pit in the city and suburban towns, at both morning and evening services, the great body of delegates rested and talked over the events of yesterday's session of the conference. Sermons by the following bishops were preached Sunday: By H. W. Warren, at Boyle Heights M. E .church; Bishop D. H. Moore, Centennial M. E. church; Bish op F. W. Warne, Boyle Heights, evn ing; Bishop H. J. Vincent, Vincent M. E. church, where dedicatory ceremonies were held; Bishop Earl Cranston, Blanchard's hall; Bishop Joseph C. Hartzell, First M. E, church, Pasadena. All other Methodist pulpits in the city and many other denominations were occupied by visiting clergymen. At the First M. E. church, this city, Dr, Joseph Barry led a large evan gelistic mass meeting, and at Simp son's auditorium, Dr. Frank Mason North, George P. Eckman and J. W. Bashford made addresses to a large crowd. Hazard's pavilion was crowded to overflowing to listen to a sermon by Dr. Waddy Moss, fraternal delegate from the Methodist church in Eng land, and at the same place there was a meeting of the Women's Home Mis* sonary society. The happenings at Saturday's ses sion of the general conference, when a vote was taken on the retirement of five bishops, furnished a live topic of discussion among the delegates Sun day. The general opinion of the dele gates is that when the report is given out Monday morning it will show a decided majority in favor of the re port of the episcopacy committee rec ommending the retirement of Bishops Vincent. Walden, Andrews, Mallalieu ind Foss. The prompt and determined manner in which the subject was put through the conference Saturday, in the face of strong efforts to postpone definite action until Monday, was much commented upon. There are a certain number of delegates, especially among the laymen, who are disposed to criti cise the manner in which the five aged bishops were deprived' of their high offices; but the leaders seem to feel relieved that the most unpleasant duty of the conference has been performed, and that the way' Is now' dleaf to make up other pressing and important legis lation. ,, , , it is,quite likely that the election of eight, possibly more, bishops will take place during the week. The day has not been decided upon, but it is gen erally believed it will be Wednesday or'Thursday. Other matters that, will come before the conference this week are: Action of the Methodist church upon divorce, consolidation of the various branches ot the book concern, limiting the ten ure of pastorate, placing the church on record in the matter of amusements, viz.; dancing, card playing, theater going, etc., and many other matters that have been brought up in me ntorials from different conferences. The, number of candidates for bishops grows daily, and no less than 35 names are now mentioned in this connection. MR. WENTZ MAKES APOLOGY Declare* Thut He Dili Not Lite Such Term* Credited to Hlui iu PreMN Dispatches. Knoxville, Tenn , May 16.—A special to the Journal and Tribune from Bris tol. Tenn., says: The coroner's jury which rendered a verdict of accidental shooting in .the case of Edward T. Wentz, whose dead body was found in Wi^e County, Va., several, days ago, Sunday afternoon re ceived a reply from Dr. J. S. Wentz regarding his alleged crminal charge In Veldtton df the finding of the jury. Dr. Wentz makes due apology to this jury, declaring that he did not use such terms as were credited to him in the prdsd dispatches. Dr. Wentz was credited with intimating that the ver dict was intended to shield the mur derers of his son, who wore friends of the jury. BALLOONIST FALLS IN RIVER Wn* Faniened In HI* Pnmehnte and Could Not Extricate Himself and W«« Drowned. Van Buren, Ark., May 16.—E. E. Limbocker, of Logansport, Ind., fell Into the Arkansas river here Saturday afternoon and was crowned. He had just made an ascension of 3,000 feet. He was fastened iu his parachute and could not extricate himself, and drowned before assistance could reach hint, Goodwin Taler. 1 1 * Postal Work. Washington, May 16.—Judge Russell P. Goodwin, of Aurora, 111., the newly appointed attorney for the post office department, to succeeded Chas H. Robb, arrived in Washngton Sunday evening, accompanied by William S. Hopkins, also of Aurora. To Attend I*rr»» Congrru. New York, May 16.—Representatives of Swiss, French, Turkish and Portu guese newspapers arrived Sunday on the steamship La Bretagne. They will attend the congress at St. Louis. 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