. Fruits, vegetables and flowers, a non-technical manual for their culture. slowlyif simply thrown in the water and allowed to settle. To avoid to some extent the delays involved in dissolving bluestone itis well to buy a finely powdered grade now manufactured for the makingof fungicidal preparations. Bordeaux Mixture.—A standard formula for the preparation of thisvaluable mixture is the following: Bluestone 4pound8 Fresh lime 4 pounds Water 50 gallons 262 SUCCESSFUL FARMING Dissolve the bluestonc in 25 gallons of water, slake the lime separately,and add water t<i make 25 gallons; then ix)u
. Fruits, vegetables and flowers, a non-technical manual for their culture. slowlyif simply thrown in the water and allowed to settle. To avoid to some extent the delays involved in dissolving bluestone itis well to buy a finely powdered grade now manufactured for the makingof fungicidal preparations. Bordeaux Mixture.—A standard formula for the preparation of thisvaluable mixture is the following: Bluestone 4pound8 Fresh lime 4 pounds Water 50 gallons 262 SUCCESSFUL FARMING Dissolve the bluestonc in 25 gallons of water, slake the lime separately,and add water t<i make 25 gallons; then ix)ur the two, Imcket by bucket,into a third barrel so as to mix thoroughly. For ix?ach an<l plum, which aremore tender than apple and grape, the above fonnula may Ik; changed tothe following: Rluostono Of) pounds Fresh lime 2. o pounds Water 50 gallons These are the best preparations known for mildews, rots, scabs, smutaand the like, and wliore one is doaling with a fungous trouble and is uncer-tain aa to how to i)rocoetl, the chances arc that he will accomplish as muc. ?2 Efficiency of Hokdeaux Mixtcke on Totatoe-s. One RowNot Sprayed. by using this preparation as with anything that could be is tlic best gcii(ral-])urposo fmigici valuable prcser\ative andantiseptic has been much used of late as a remedy for potato scab and tosome extent for wheat smut. It is sold as a fluid containing forty per centof formalin. In this condition it is \cry acrid, and gives olT fumes thataffect the eyes and nostrils implcasantly. Used on the hands, it quicklydestroys tlic outer skin. It cannot, tlierefore, be employed except wheq> Courtesy of New
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