. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 28 codling moth in a given area even in the old, badly infested districts. Certain observations and experiences lead me to this belief. As early as 1907, Dr. Melander carried on codling moth work at Wenatchee. He took for his work there that year, an orchard that had been about fifty per cent wormy in lOOG, and by thor- ough combative methods reduced the infestation in that orchard that year to one-tenth of one per cent. It is only a short step from one-tenth of one per cent infestation to extermination, and British Columbia has shown us that that step can b
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 28 codling moth in a given area even in the old, badly infested districts. Certain observations and experiences lead me to this belief. As early as 1907, Dr. Melander carried on codling moth work at Wenatchee. He took for his work there that year, an orchard that had been about fifty per cent wormy in lOOG, and by thor- ough combative methods reduced the infestation in that orchard that year to one-tenth of one per cent. It is only a short step from one-tenth of one per cent infestation to extermination, and British Columbia has shown us that that step can be accomplished. If this can be accomplished, on a single or- chard, it can be accomplished in a whole community, if the whole com- munity can be handled in the same way. We are now working on this communi- ty idea on Sunnyslope. A community of about 1400 acres close to Wenatchee. In 1918, Sunnyslope was the wormi- est orchard area in the whole Wenat- chee district. This community shipped that year about 400 cars of apples. The damage done by worms was estimated at 20 per cent of the entire crop, which amounted to a loss of about 80 carloads of apples, or a loss in monev of about .$100,000 dollars. Such a loss as this BETTER FRUIT has an etfect on the growers similar to the effect of the loss of a great battle on an army. It hurts morale. It has a tendency to make the grower skeptical and to lose confidence in himself and tried methods of codling moth control. Fortunately, however, we had one good example in Sunnyslope in 1918. During the winter of 1917-18 a certain grower in Sunnyslope asked me if there was anything he could do to get rid of the worms. He felt that he had done every- thing that he possibly could do, but still had suffered a loss from worms of 35 per cent for three years straight running. He was becoming discouraged. I promised to give him some special at- tention during the season of 1918 and to see if we could not help him get rid of his worms. His orchard lay
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