The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-22
To TILLERS OF THE SOIL
Hints That May Prove Of Benefit ID
Our NsIghbOIs,
Articles Of tniaStet Worth 10 The Farmer Collected
From Reliable Sources,
REMEDIES FOR SCALE AND DIS
EASES.

The University of California, (Agricul-
tural Experiment station has issued a
special bulletin, giving in a concise form
formulas and remedies for treating fungi
and insects, from which We quote as
follows:
For powdery mildews use sulphur,
busting it on the plants.
For fungi in general, use Bordeaux
Mixture, made as follows: For every 10
gallons take pound oil lime and pound
OF bluestone. Dissolve these separately
in hot water and mix when cool, adding
the rest OF the water. Spray on the
plants. Or spray with Ammoniacal
Copper Carbonate Solution, made as
follows: Dissolve l ounce of copper
carbonate in ounces OF ammonia and
add 10 gallons of water.
For fungi and scale insects use lime,
salt and sulphur mixture, a winter
wash composed OF lime s pounds, salt 3
pounds, and sulphur 4 pounds, for each
u gallons OF water. Mix one-fourth of
the water, one-fourth OF the lime, and
all the sulphur, and boil for one and a
half hours; put the salt with the rest OF
the lime and slake with hot water; add
to the above and boil half an hour
longer; add the remainder OF the water
and apply as spray.
For scale insects use Resin soap, as
follows: For 100 gallons for summer use,
take resin IS pounds, caustic soda (9S
per cent? 3la pounds, and fish oil 2ia
pints; for winter use, resin 80 pounds,
caustic soda 81, pounds, and fish oil Az
pints. The material is put in a kettle
and covered with four or five inches of
water. The lid is put on and the mix
ture boiled two hours or more, and then
the rest OF the water is added, little at
a time. Spray on the plants. Or use
the gas treatment: Cover the plant with
an oiled tent, and for each 100 cubic
feet OF contents place in bowl beneath
the tent q ounce OF water, 3 ounce OF
sulphuric acid oi OF vitrol), and l.
ounce Of potassium cyanide l5S per cent.
being careful not to inhale the poison
Gus gas nor allow it to escape from the
tent for half an hour. The leaves may
be injured if used during the middle OF
the day.
For insects in general, use Kerosene
Emulsion, as follows: Make a soap solu-
ton OF half pound OF soap to gallon
OF water. Heat it to boiling and add
two gallons of kerosene. Pump it
through the spray pump, with good
pressure, for five TO ten minutes. For
use add ten times as much water as you
have OF emulsion. Apply as spray,
Sour milk may be used instead OF the
soap solution. The emulsion is made
more effective by the addition OF a very
small amount OF arsenic to the soap So
luton, or OF buhach to the kerosene.
For fruit or lesi.eating insects, use
Paris Green or London Purple as
powder, at the rate OF one to five pounds
to the acr distributed by walking or
riding over the field, carrying a pole, at
both ends OF which are hung muslin
bags containing the poison. Asa spray.
use pound to 200 gallons OF water. In
spraying these arsenites the nozzle
should be held at some distance IRON the
plant, and no more should be applied
after the leaves begin to drip. Do not
use these on crops where the poison
would be injurious to health.