Smyrna times., 1892-07-27

an orchard that was being pulled on
at the rate of nearly hundred asSI
year, and I'adOpted the practice of -,
ola doctor which, perhaps. most Of vo,
nave heard before, but being anni;ca
Die IN this case, / will repeat II +
was said that he had a large bottIa
into which he emptied the remnant.
oI all other bottles, and when he WA.
called TO patient whose case he kneU
nOtning about. he dOsed them out oi
Ine Olg bottle, thinking that some one
oI Che articles IN 1t might suit the case
90 on tnat line / procured several diff.
terent chemicals hoping that some one
OF them might suit the case of the vel.
lows. at first had the earth removed
Tor few inches around the root of
each tree and IA shovel of dry lime and
quart of salt put around each ibaIf ..
pint OF salt would have been better
but l started in for heroic treatment
kill or cure.
Before using the wash we went over
Ihe OFchard and cut out every diseased
limb we could find, in some cases the
entire top was removed; of course
these were pulled out. But wb.r. !,
single limb remained apparently
healthy that limb remained and Ihs
tree was treated the same az ntbar.
But, believing then as | do now that
tlght bark Is the yellOws, I had the
Oark split on two sides of each tree
thinking that this might possibly re.
iease the pressure on the san vessels
ana allow natural flow. Now what
causes this tight bark is for the scient.
lsCs TO discover. 1t may be insects in
the bark or it may be something else
Or II they can prove that the tight bark
IneOry IS false, and can tell us what is
edy. W " fe'h
After having the diseased wood ra.
moved and the bark split Ion t,ra
sides, | ordered threel | had a wssb
Ilaue OF hVe pounds of sulphate of con-
per- one pound of paris green to IA bar
rel vi water anu lime enough to make
a tnin wash. With this / had the trees
washed last fall before the leaves dron.
pea. lhls spring there was a prosnert
Tor fair crop of peaches on many ot
the trees, on some of the trees that bad
the entire top removed exceDt a sinyI,. |
llmO. That limb was full of ne.nbss
until the hail beat off all but 10 |
These | hoped would remain so ,ha,T |
might see whether they matur,.d 81.
prematured. But the foliage havin,,
Oeeh Oeaten OIL aS well as the fruit ,Ln /
.rees looking more like December th,u
May, they fell of alsO. These ,r..,.,,
are again clothed with healthy rolinue
Wllh this treatment the orchard p.
NAMED until about the first of Iuna
lh account of my inability to attend to
ne CON molnaIlon of the chemicals in
'tHueu 70 he applied. As soon aS WAS
'ole 10 attend to it had the FOLLOWING
mixture prepared first | placed in -
'"rrtl one common pail of plaster and
'he Oasket OF water; to this was a .ided
,ne quart OF ammonia and well stirrad
Ilme would not do for this work a. il
would VOlatilize the ammonia and r..n
Ter II worthless, but the p!aster has .
to Tx it instead of dissina,ino,
v. Inc barrel was then filled with
'a'er' TO which was added five Mound.
i sulphate OF copper and ten nounde
saisoda ana half pound of Daris
IeeH. ne ammonia and salsodA ora
seu 10 lHVl g0rate, the sulphate of con
er ana paris green as insecticides far
ny insects that may be harborinu in
ne bark. | feel quite sure thai tb.
'ees would have been in better r,rdi
on than they are if the above .nn'i
Dring. carry
regret very much the failure of fine
G4cn I crop Had it remained it is po-
Die that l might have been able +,
ave impaired valuable information to 4
ne peach growers of the Peninsula :
W as II now stands there is NOTHING
ehhlte or certain as the result of nv
Aperlments. All that | can now saw !
, that soNe OF the trees that had ns
Ign as six diseased limbs emf from
lem i: are at this time showing healthy 4
'liage. What may be the futnre re
llts, time alone can prove.
ne Cost OF materials used was about
uoliar Tor each hundred trees If 9,
. nave crop of peaches next wear u
ID those diseased trees do not Dre
azure their fruit, we will have con. !
uslVe evidence that we are ON tho
'ad to the discovery of sometbing
lat will wipe out the peach yellows
stead of the yellOws wipiDg ONT onr
chards. IF, on the other hand
uudu our experiments prove an en- =
re failure it will only be at the cost T
few dollars and few days labor
VestigatIng subject of great import.
ICE zee 10 the people of this Peninsula.
MY intention now is to push the in.
'stIgation still further and should
upon remedy it will be given to
e Farmers Institute aud thronoh
em to the peach growers, unencum.
red by patent claims.