Biggle orchard book : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket : gathered and packed into book form . gallons of Combined with Insect Poison.—Byadding one-quarter pound of Paris green to each fiftygallons of either of the Bordeaux formulas, the mix-ture becomes a combined fungicide a)id , instead of Paris green, add about two pounds ofarsenate of lead (an excellent commercial form of this,called Disparene, is for sale by seedsmen). Theadvantages of arsenate of lead, over Paris green, are,first, it is not apt to burn foliage even if used inrather excessive q
Biggle orchard book : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket : gathered and packed into book form . gallons of Combined with Insect Poison.—Byadding one-quarter pound of Paris green to each fiftygallons of either of the Bordeaux formulas, the mix-ture becomes a combined fungicide a)id , instead of Paris green, add about two pounds ofarsenate of lead (an excellent commercial form of this,called Disparene, is for sale by seedsmen). Theadvantages of arsenate of lead, over Paris green, are,first, it is not apt to burn foliage even if used inrather excessive quantities ; and, second, it sticksto the foliage, etc., better and longer. I believe thatit is the best form in which to use arsenical ELEVATED PLANT FOR MAKING BORDEAUX ON A LARGE SCALE SPRAYING 63 Insecticides. — Sometimes it may be desirable toapply a treatment for insects alone, without the botherof making the regulation Bordeaux. Here are a fewstandard formulas suited for chewing insects : Paris green : Two pounds of quicklime, one-quarterpound of Paris green, fifty gallons of water. Keepmixture well agitated while spraj-ing. (Xot so safeas arsenate of lead on tender foliage of peach, etc. j Arsenate of lead : This can be made at home, asfollows: Take twelve ounces of acetate of lead, fourounces of arsenate of soda, and fifty gallons of the acetate of lead into a gallon of water in awooden pail; in another wooden pail put the arsenateof soda in two quarts of water, \^hen both aredissolved, pour them together into the spray tankcontaining the required amoimt of water. A whiteprecipitate of lead arsenate immediately forms in thetank and the mixture is ready to be applied. Thisremains in suspension long
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