. Fruits, vegetables and flowers, a non-technical manual for their culture. A Good Cluster of Apples, but with SomeScab Showing. A little more thinning and spraying would havebeen useful here. lis SUCCESSFUL FARMING This is the most important single spray. It is to control the apple worm,scab, curculio and thi later simtIcs of rcd-hwg if present. 4. Repeat No. 3 in about two or three « This for the sameenemies as in No. 3 and is also useful against the apple maggot if present. 5, G and 7. In orchards infested by bitter-rot or apple-blotch, make. Picking and Packing Apples.* three ap
. Fruits, vegetables and flowers, a non-technical manual for their culture. A Good Cluster of Apples, but with SomeScab Showing. A little more thinning and spraying would havebeen useful here. lis SUCCESSFUL FARMING This is the most important single spray. It is to control the apple worm,scab, curculio and thi later simtIcs of rcd-hwg if present. 4. Repeat No. 3 in about two or three « This for the sameenemies as in No. 3 and is also useful against the apple maggot if present. 5, G and 7. In orchards infested by bitter-rot or apple-blotch, make. Picking and Packing Apples.* three applications, preferably with Bordeaux mixture (3-3-50), at inter-vals of about three weeks, beginninR eight or nine weeks after petals In the absence of .sprays 5, G and 7, and where the second brood ofapple worms, late scab or late summer caterpillars is bad, repeat No. Sabout August 1st, or som(>what earli(>r in the southern sections. depiMidingupon the time of emergence of the (((dhng moth. With the third and fourth > Court«sy of Penn Sut« Fanner, Sut« Collrgr, Pa. THE POME FRUITS 119 applications well made, this one is rarely needed, although much dependson the locality and season. This schedule of sprays is all that is needed in the worst infestedorchards, and it is seldom that more than those numbered 1, 3 and 4 needbe given. Thinning.—Whenever the crop on a tree is too large for normal matu-rity, it should be thinned. This should be done as soon as the June drop islargely over, or when the fruit has become about an inch
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