Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-03-18

drop-but which may be destroyed by spraying
with Ia mixture Of one pound Of London purple
thoroughly in sufficient water to make a paste;
then stir in pail of water and allow to stand
over night. Strain this through fine sieve or
The remedy is even cheaper than the Bordeaux
mixture The London purple costs 30 cents
pound. Fifty gallons of mixture win spray an
acres of orchard per day. Z. d. L. Evans, Of
Houseman, Oceana Co., Mich, writes me that he
sprayed 10 acre orchard between o'clock and
s, and put eight barrels Of solution on it. This
was done with my Barrel Sprayer, that one man
can operate. The cost of orchard spraying, per
acre. per spraying. will not exceed for labor and
cheap and profitable way of getting an apple
crop, where otherwise no crop, or, at the best, a
very poor one would be obtained; and by spray
ing we not only get perfect fruit but keep our
There is one more important lnsecticide-kero.
sene emulsion, for hop lice, squash bugs. leaf
hoppers aphs, bark lice etc, ! pr prepare It 93y
the best whale-oil soap should be used-in four
pints of water by boiling. When the soap is all
dissolved remove from the fire and add eight pints
of kerosene and agitate the whole briskly until a
stable mixture il formed. This Is done by using
a force-pump and pumping the mixture with
force back into the vessel that contains 1t. Inc
emulsion may be diluted to the desired strength
and use at once or il may be allowed to stand
and be used when needed: The strength ordi-
nariy used Is prepared by dluting one part OF the
that the cost of this is like that of the other
infecticides really insignificant. In 10 times
dilution--full strong for ordinary purposes-ot
2i0 pints, or 30 gallons, we have one pound OF
whale-oil soap, which costs Is cents, and IL
pinJs, or two gallons of kerosene-cost, Is to 80
cents. 1t will be seen that the cost s little more
than one cent per gallon.
To destroy the canker worm, codling moth or
curculio on apple trees, spray soon after the
blossoms fall-when the apples are the size OF a
pea-and again in a week or 10 days: To dest roy
the plum curculio, spray the trees three or four
times ut intervals of week or 10 days, beginning
leaf blight of pear and ounce, spray every three
weeks until about August l, beginning in March,
when the leaf-bud has not yet unfolded. Five
sprayings are usually sufficient. For black rot
of the grape, begin after the vineyard has been
pruned and put in order, but before vegetation
starts, spraying thoroughly; spray again about 10
days before the flowers open; the third time when
the flowers are opening, and from that on every
three weeks until the fruit begins to color-say
tive or six sprayings in all.
You can nowcompute easily how much il will cost
you to keep your vines and trees free from dis
and insects; what a trifing expense is neces-
sary almost To insure you thrifty orchards and
vineyards and large yields of perfect fruits. IL
may truly be said of spraying that the benefits
are out of all proportion to the cost. When we
consider how palatable and wholesome, how al
together desirable the fruits of the tree and OF
the vine how favorable to the development of the
best elements of human character is the tending
of tho orchard and the vineyard, surely we are
convinced that IL He that makes two blades OF
grass to grow where but one grew before" is en-
titled TO the worlds blessing, he that sprays
wisely and well is greater than he that taketh a