. How to establish and maintain an apple orchard. Apples. banding with wire to keep them out, is very expensive. In spraying the trees therefore, start close to the ground and spray the body and branches up about four feet with Bordeaux Mix- ture and Arsenate of Lead, or with Sulfocide, before the snow falls. In some instances this has saved the trees. Use one gal- lon of Sulfocide to one gallon of water, or one gallon of Bor- deaux Mixture to ten gallons of water. Where young trees have had the bark girdled all around the trunk, they may be saved by conducting the sap across the girdled point
. How to establish and maintain an apple orchard. Apples. banding with wire to keep them out, is very expensive. In spraying the trees therefore, start close to the ground and spray the body and branches up about four feet with Bordeaux Mix- ture and Arsenate of Lead, or with Sulfocide, before the snow falls. In some instances this has saved the trees. Use one gal- lon of Sulfocide to one gallon of water, or one gallon of Bor- deaux Mixture to ten gallons of water. Where young trees have had the bark girdled all around the trunk, they may be saved by conducting the sap across the girdled point through grafted twigs. This is done in the Spring, by making openings in the bark close to the roots, as in grafting and budding, making similar openings above the girdled place, and connecting them by insert- ing small pieces of apple twigs — the annual wood being good for this purpose. The places where the ends of the twigs are inserted should be well covered with grafting wax, and twine drawn about them to prevent their being broken out while work is being done about the trees. Valuable trees may be saved in this manner, the sap go- ing up through the twigs which will eventually support the tree. When men are working about trees, allowing plows or other implements to break the bark on the body of a tree, cover the wound promptly with a disinfectant paint when it will quickly heal over and no disease follow. Careful attention given to the above details in spraying, and prevention of injuries, will eliminate losses and add to ILLUSTRATING THE METHOD OF SAVING A GIRDLED TREE 26. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Powell, George T. New York, Consumers fertilizer company
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