The Globe-republican., 1892-03-17
SPRAYING FRUITS.

pYvM srAuL. QUINCY NJ,

| thead Before the Twenty-sixth Annual Meeting
Of the Kansas State Horticultural society al
BelOit, Kansas, December 3, 1911
| can speak Of spraying from experience-an
experience in this line. believe Is extensive ~
that OF any person in the country. first expert
mented in spraying eight years ago. Then. a
| now. was extensively engaged in buying and
| shipping fruits Is we'll as raising them. That
r1t 2. s9e bad n the
| In fact. about the only marketable grapes that
found that year were on the strip of sandy ground
point tina: for forty years has been the center OF
noted Srape-growiny neighborhood. That year
the rot ruined the crop on the upland. blu6 lands.
brought me as high as tso a basket. IN the St.
Paul and Minneapolis markets. They were 60
profitable to the growers we'll Is to me that
other things tried spraying using quite . mum.
ber OF mixtures-sOme had heard Of and some
original with myself. But did not get the right
remedy until the season o.; 1883; that season
sprayed In small, experimental way with the
Bordeaux Mixture. The results were such that
the rext season l made my experiments with it
strated to me, and 10 some OF the neighooying
winners, that had found the remedy had SO
long sought. The result was that in 1890 quite
number OF US sprayed. and q yet greater number
sprayed the past season. while the past season We
did the work better. As the result OF increased
confidence and experience. Let others speak Of
the results. Says the Nauvoo Rustler:
All are satisfied rs TO the virtues OF spraying
as those ,hat have not sprayed this season have
lost from ~ 10 % per cent of their crops from the
rot. while those that sprayed did not lose more
than from to per cent. The efficiency Of spray
Ing apple peach. pear cherry and plum trees have
been established also among our horticulturists.
ana hereafter the spraying Of their trees will
doubt be general, as all concede that the secret of
.uccess has not only been discovered, but also
demonstrated before their very eyes"
Last September the editor OF the Farmers Call
visited my fruit fields and u result of his visit
wrote this in his paper:
I'VE do not think We have ever before seen
ludpr Il in,
hundred was affected with the rot: while only .
snort distance away, vineyard on the same soil
and under like conditions, except that they mad
hot oeen sprayed. were SO badly affected with the
TOT that their crops will not be worth gathering
IN some Vineyards q row, or a part Of row
through tue middle had not been sprayed as a
test. and every case the vines not SPRAYED were
badly Affected with the rot and the fruit will not
be worth the gathering: while ON either side the
tonnage OF those sprayed was little affected and
sney were heavily loaded with wellnigh perfect
fsuit Undoubtedly the fullest plum tree we have
ever seen was enc that had never matured q crop
before on account Of the curcuiO etc. 1t was
an enormous yield and OF perfect fruit Mr. Stahl
mas demonstrated beyond dot BIT tn 1t the codlng
mo.n: canker worm apple and plum curculo.
pear and ounce leaf blight. grape rot and mildew,
etc can be prevented or destrO-ed BY spraying
with the proper mixtures"
hat has been my experience has been the ex.
with the experimental work in spraying that has
been done by the Department Of Agriculture and
sne state experiment stations. So lar as have
been able TO learn the results of this experimental
work have been altogether favorable to spraying
would not underestimate the importance and
value OF this experimental work consider it es-
tura1 and horticultural interests Yet, / must
confess, attach q higher value to the mass of
evidence that l have collected in the shape of per-
eonal letters to me from more than one thousand
lru1t-growers that have tested SPRAYING the past
season-held tests. not tests Of q few feet. but
tests OF acres by practical men in the actual bus
mess OF 1ruit-growing. It is impossible for me
70 quote from any considerable number OF these
letters Your time will not permit. nor will it be
Necessary. But can not refrain from giving an
extract from the letter Of Mr.. Frank WellhOuse
OF Paramount this state. the largest ,e-grower
In the country. He says:
we sprayed about three acres on the 18th Of
April. or just before the buds opened as an ex.
pertinent. Our object in this was to kill the can
ker worm. tent caterpillar and tarnieh plant bug
All OF which We're at work at that time. and we
succeeded: but we accomplished the same thine
by spraying after the bloom had dropped. SPRAY,
ing commenced in earnest the 18th Of April
with three machines and was finished on the 9Th
OF May. We SPRAYED 100 acres twice. equalV 90
acres once, and 277 acres three times. equal to 81
acres once, or total Of SINS acres at = single
spraying. To do this We used 80 600 gallons of
water and so pounds of London purple and it
took &c days to do the spraying; 70 that the ex.
Pense stands thus: Forty-six DAYS with team at
$3.50 per day. S;l5; 600 pounds London purple at
10 cents per pound. $50; total s175 or little over
10 cents per acre. and about ~ mills per tree for
each spraying. We think We can reduce this ex-
Pense another year ut least one-fourth and posi-
bly, one third. by fixing our ponds of water more
conveniently. and a few other changes The can
ker worms were getting too thick in one block of
rees and we entirely destroyed them The tent
caterPiilars were numerous in places. and bu,
Few OF them were left alive. The tarnish plant
bugs were thick. and did serious damage last
year. but this year. after had sprayed the sec
on On time, we could not find any Of them alive.
gully 90 per cent OF the codling moth were de-
stroyed-some observers cay IS per cent
Others bear stronger testimony. Pardon me II
quote from one or two other letters. Mr.. E.
clark Usage City. Usage County. Kan. says:
with the sprayer got Of you I sprayed Jona-
than, Wine Sap, Cluster. Janet, Stark Ben Davis
Timber Twig and Snow. Ny apples we're clean
ever had. had to prop the trees. but still the
limbs broke on lots Of them. My whole crop will
make me 30 per cent Of fine apples clean of worms
l compared my Ben Davis apples with my neigh
boris mine being little above 50 per cent clean.
while his We're 90 per cent wormv. l had one
plum tree. Lombard. four years old. around which
l had TO build sca6Old to hold up the fruit. Ii
bad at least five bushels Of fine plums ON it. while
my neighbours plums all rotted and fell OF l
would not take 500 for my sprsyer and do with
out II. for have gained 20 per cent over last
year"
And writes MT John F. will:sms. Of Lawrence.
Douglas Co, KaE.:
Il sprayed ali my apple trees-about 800. They
are eight years old Last year and the year before
they bore. but not heavily. The fruit was
mostly large and smooth, but nearly every apple
had n worm in it. This year the trees are very
full. the apples are large smooth. and nicely col
bred. and / think not more than one in twenty
Ave has worm in it. l noticed one tree Of Jon
athans II have about thirty Of them which stood
| near the fence 60 that could spray but one side
Of it. the apples the side did not spray were
nearly all wormy Those could reach were all
right sprayed but once. just as the bloom was
falling. i also sprayed ny plum trees. about fifty
Wild Goose and Minor. They have borne a very
large crop Of pums, the incest in our market
and none wOrmy. am SO well pleased with nv
experience in spraying that l am glad to have Au
opportunity Of telling it. 1t pays"
Now. the point Is. how were these results OBJ
tanned and At what cost. You will note that Mr..
welhouse found the cost of spraying his orchard
to be- per spraying. little over Is cents per
acre. This will be about the average COST for
| while Mr.. W. got his London Purple cheap &C
count Of buying so much. he made the solution
very strong, TOO strong I think The remedy for
| the canker worm, coding moth and curculio Of
| the apple and the curcuiO Of the plum-and it IL
| sn effective remedy-is the London Purple Solu-
/ ton made by mixiN one pound Of London Pur
pie with sufficient water to make paste; this is
then strained thoroughly into pail OF water and
allowed TO stand over night This IL next
strained through coarse ciotn or sne sieve into