Biggle orchard book : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket : gathered and packed into book form . ead, it will never pay to try to save such trees;dig them up at once and burn every vestige of not lose a day in this ; noiv is the word. Nearevery badly affected tree will be found other trees thatshow the scale to the close observer; these may beleft standing until winter. Then, soon after theleaves drop, spray the trees ; and, if you wish to bethorough, follow this with a second spraying in earlyspring before the buds open. Since the Farm Journal, four or five years ago,brou
Biggle orchard book : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket : gathered and packed into book form . ead, it will never pay to try to save such trees;dig them up at once and burn every vestige of not lose a day in this ; noiv is the word. Nearevery badly affected tree will be found other trees thatshow the scale to the close observer; these may beleft standing until winter. Then, soon after theleaves drop, spray the trees ; and, if you wish to bethorough, follow this with a second spraying in earlyspring before the buds open. Since the Farm Journal, four or five years ago,brought the lime-sulphur-salt spray to the attentionof fruit-growers east of the Rocky mountains, many SCAI^E PESTS 69 other things have been tried, but to little lime, sulphur and salt mixture is still thesovereign remedy on the Pacific coast, no othermaterial being used there to any extent as a scale spray ;and elsewhere in the United States it is the bestthing yet found. It is effective wherever used, ifdirections are followed, and it is safer to use thanthe oil remedies sometimes AN ILLINOIS LIME-SULPHUR-SALT IN ELEVATED BARRELS Farm Journals winter formula for making thelime-sulphur spray: Mix forty pounds of fresh,unslaked lime in sixty gallons of water, and afterstirring in twenty pounds of sulphur, boil the mix-ture one and one-half hours. Strain through wiresieve or netting, and apply while mixture is stillwarm. A good, high - pressure pump is essential tosatisfactory work. Coat e\ery particle of the salt is purposely omitted, for it does not seemto do much good and it renders the mixture harderto manage. 70 biggIvE; orchard book Dr. Funks formula for the lime, sulphur and saltmixture is as follows : To make 150 gallons, takesixty-five pounds of best stone lime, fifty pounds ofsulphur and thirty-five pounds of salt. INIake a pasteof the sulphur and have from fifteen to twenty gallonsof boiling water in an iron caldron
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