Station Bulletin - Agricultural Experiment Station, Oregon State College, Issues 50-69Agricultural Experiment Station., 1898 - Agriculture |
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Page 30 - ... the remaining supervisors may fill such vacancy until the next annual meeting, when a successor shall be elected for the unexpired term...
Page 87 - ... fruit free from worms. Nevertheless, one should not overlook the facts that clean, smooth trees and clean cultivation are efficient supplements to spraying; that if sheep or hogs are allowed to run in the orchard they will devour the fallen fruit with many worms included; that closed screens at the windows and doors of storerooms in which infested fruit has been kept, means imprisonment for life to all moths that emerge therein in spring. Some good authorities also recommend that the old "banding...
Page 14 - Three points seem to be clearly established in regard to the food of the kingbirds — (1) that about 90 per FIG. 19.— Kingbird. Length, about 81 Inches, cent consists of insects, mostly injurious species; (2) that the alleged habit of preying upon honeybees is much less prevalent than has been supposed, and probably does not result in any great damage: and (3) that the vegetable food consists almost entirely of wild fruits which have no economic value.
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Page 68 - THE EGG. The eggs of the codling moth are minute scale-like objects about one-twentieth of an inch in diameter. They may be likened to a very small trout scale glued to the surface of the leaf or fruit. Being so small and at the same time transparent, or with only a slight yellowish tinge, they can be detected only with difficulty by those unfamiliar with their appearance. When once familiar with them, however, and every apple grower should become familiar with them, one can readily find them in...
Page 41 - Section 7 of this act, who certifies to any materially false statement therein shall be guilty of a violation of this act, and upon conviction...