. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. igii BETTER FRUIT Page 4j moth, together with most other insects which may hap- pen to be wintering upon the trees. It is also a good fun- gicide. If applied in the fall it is nearly or quite equal to bordeaux as a preventive of apple tree anthracnose. and applied to peach trees just before the buds open in the spring it is a preventive of the peach leaf curl. As a summer spra3\ the results of the past four sea- sons' work at the Oregon Experiment Station prove conclusively that when prop- erly diluted it can be safely used upon the apple, pear, plum and prune, p
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. igii BETTER FRUIT Page 4j moth, together with most other insects which may hap- pen to be wintering upon the trees. It is also a good fun- gicide. If applied in the fall it is nearly or quite equal to bordeaux as a preventive of apple tree anthracnose. and applied to peach trees just before the buds open in the spring it is a preventive of the peach leaf curl. As a summer spra3\ the results of the past four sea- sons' work at the Oregon Experiment Station prove conclusively that when prop- erly diluted it can be safely used upon the apple, pear, plum and prune, potato, cel- ery and other hardy plants, and that it gives much better results in controlling apple scab than does bordeaux, which has been the standard spray for this disease, and, further, that it is much less likely to cause the disastrous "spray injury"' to fruit and foliage, which is so common, and often serious, when bor- deaux is used. Preparation of Lime-Sulphur — The "stock solution" method of preparing lime-sulphur is now most generally used in this state. A number of brands of commercial solutions which have only to be diluted with w-ater to be ready for use are now offered for sale, and careful experiments extending over several sea- sons have demonstrated that these sprays are fully equal to the old home-made lime-sulphur spray. The chief fault to be found w-ith these commercial preparations is that they cost too much. The retail price is $7 to $10 per barrel of fifty gallons. The lime and sulphur necessary to prepare fifty gallons of stock -solution, which is equall}' as efficient, costs at present retail prices approximately $3. It may be pre- pared as follows: Sulphur (best fine ground), one sack, one hundred and ten pounds; lime (best grade, unslaked), sixty pounds; water sufficient to make sixty gallons. Slake the lime, mix the sulphur into a thin paste with a little water, add it to the lime, add sufficient water to make all told sixty ga
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