Smyrna times., 1902-02-26

for this purpose. L THINK II is almost
unnecessary to speak of the way this
mixture should be made, but there is
right way and wrong way. Take a
barrel and put bushel of lime into it
and slack it with a little water, then
add water to make so gallons or lit |
tie less, then suspend a wooden cask
or some two peach baskets, containing
80 pounds of blue stone in another
barrel. Here we have then pound of
lime to the gallon in one barrel, and
pound of blue stone to the gallon in
another barrel. We pour into our
spray tank enough lime to make 6
pounds of lime to barrel of mixture
when complete. This lime is sent
through screen, not less than twenty
four meshes to the inch. Just now l
am using thirty meshes to the inch.
We have stick attached in this barrel
so that we can thoroughly mix it.
When the tank is half full we add the
blue stone solution, using at the rate
of six gallons of the solution, or six
pounds of blue stone to so gallons of
the completed mixture. OF late years
1 have reduced the blue stone to four
pounds and find it satisfactory.
We spray to clear the tree of fungus.
We are doing it for certain purpose,
we want to keep life in the trees. We
must kill the fungus so that it cannot
live on the trees. We are simply try
ing to keep the apple trees in the con-
ditlon that nature intended, and in
trying to kill their enemies. When
you have this mixture you have good
one.
The next thing is how to apply it. If
we have small trees we can do it very
conveniently from a low wagon; if
they are Is or 90 feet high, or more. we
cannot do it that way. We use a wag-
on but it is necessary to elevate the
men who are doing the work. We
have platform raised above the wag-
on so that the men stand nine feet
from the ground, using rods eight feet
long. They have four nozzles to each
rod so that with two men we are
throwing eight sprays at a time. In
this way we can uOuble the amount of
work with the same number of men.
We find that we do not want to deluge
the trees with water, we simply want
to put mist there.
Crimson Clover the Best Fertilizer.
AS to fertilizer, think crimson clio.
yer is all that we need, and 1t can be
grown in the orchard year after year.
We hand pick every apple. We han
die them as carefully as we would
eggs. OF course, in the early apples
they do not decay, for we do not keeI
them long time, but shaking off dis
colors the fruit, and they will not keeE
so long. Certainly buyers will no
take bruised apples at the same price
as they pay for those that are carefully
handled. Our late apples properly
handled here on the Peninsula, th,
! Winesap and Lankford for example
will sometimes keep till the first O
May. Where the weather is not to,
cold, prefer to pick them in the after
noon and leave them spread on tn
ground where the air could reacl
> them. Here they are not sheltered b,
the branches of the trees. Next morn
: ing pack into tight barrel and kee
( on the north side of building unit
g cold weather and they should keep un
{ til spring. There are apples that
t know succeed here, but will not ad
j, wise anyone to plant any particular va
n riety, because have known varietie
Q that were a success In Jones' Neck, bu
g brought up to my place did not sue
" ceed. 1 would say to anyone VIII
v wants to grow apples for market, gro
e only few varieties.
e Open Discussion on Apple Culture.
: G. W. Stewart-My Lily of Ker
seem to blight and the bodies are dis
eased. What can be done?
= Mr.. Derby-It is possible that the
= may be cankered. The canker is SUI
: :. posed to come in through some creviC
- in the bark, but once in it will spres
:. around the tree. There is great de
= of canker throughout the State. Bo
= deaux mixture applied to these plac
seems to be a cure for them. Pre-
Chester has been trying several 9th
remedies. Last spring we used ros
soap mixture with wood ashes on pc
70 trees for this trouble, which check,