Bulletin . or five feet at ordinarypressures, unless aided by the wind, and those nozzles adver-tised to spray ten feet or more are undesirable. In spraying,hold the nozzle away from the tree so that the spray may settleover it like a fog, except where adverse wind makes this impos-sible, and stop spraying when the foliage is wet and before itdrips much. A bamboo extension rod with cut-off cock at thebase enables one to reach the tops of large trees and to work muchfaster. Other points regarding spraying will be found in bulle-tin 131 of this station. Summary : —The fall web-worms, yellow-neck
Bulletin . or five feet at ordinarypressures, unless aided by the wind, and those nozzles adver-tised to spray ten feet or more are undesirable. In spraying,hold the nozzle away from the tree so that the spray may settleover it like a fog, except where adverse wind makes this impos-sible, and stop spraying when the foliage is wet and before itdrips much. A bamboo extension rod with cut-off cock at thebase enables one to reach the tops of large trees and to work muchfaster. Other points regarding spraying will be found in bulle-tin 131 of this station. Summary : —The fall web-worms, yellow-necked applecaterpillars, red-humped apple caterpillars, tussock moth cat-erpillars and hickory tiger moth caterpillars injure apple foli-age in late summer. They may be controlled by sprayingwith an arsenical insecticide about August first. As it isalso desirable to spray for the brown-tail moth at this time,an early August spraying may well be made a regular orchardpractice, for which directions are k M ?^m
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