The school and farmA treatise on the elements of agriculture . pay richlyfor the trouble. The following remarks on Spraying and SprayingMixtures, by practical farmers and fruit growers,may be profitably read in connection with what hasbeen said here. BORDEAUX MIXTURE. In order to prepare Bordeaux mixture suspend asmany pounds as you need to use of the sulphate ina gunny sack in a barrel containing a gallon of waterfor each pound of sulphate. The sulphate will beready for use in a short time and will remain in solu-tion and keep during the summer. The next step is to slack in a long box as many
The school and farmA treatise on the elements of agriculture . pay richlyfor the trouble. The following remarks on Spraying and SprayingMixtures, by practical farmers and fruit growers,may be profitably read in connection with what hasbeen said here. BORDEAUX MIXTURE. In order to prepare Bordeaux mixture suspend asmany pounds as you need to use of the sulphate ina gunny sack in a barrel containing a gallon of waterfor each pound of sulphate. The sulphate will beready for use in a short time and will remain in solu-tion and keep during the summer. The next step is to slack in a long box as manypounds of lime as you have sulphate—you can divideyour lime by measuring its surface. Your lime andsulphate is now ready for mixing, but do not mixuntil you are ready to use it. If you wish to make for-ty gallons of Bordeaux,fill your barrel or tankpartly with water, thenfrom your sulphate barrelpour in four gallons, andtake from your limeenough to equal fourpounds of unslacked the lime in a ves-sel of water and pour itoff through a strainer. Fig. 23—Canker worm, a, h andc are eggs; e is a mass ofeggs;/is a larva dark brownin color. Larvae can dropfrom tree by silk thread. 150 FRUIT. into your barrel or tank, then add water enough tomake forty gallons. When it is thoroughly mixed useas soon as possible. To meet the ravages of the codling moth, useParis green or London purple, about one pound to 150pounds of water. Spray just before the buds open in the spring witha mixture of one pound of sulphur to fifty gallons ofwater, to destroy any fungous growth that may havestarted during the warm days of winter, or eggs ofinsects that may be deposited upon the branches orbody of the tree. The next spraying should be done as soon as theblossom falls, using Bordeaux mixture for blight, andadding to each fifty gallons of water one-third poundof Paris green or London purple to destroy the worms. Spraying in same manner should be done in a weekor ten days, then try to get a
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