Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-03-09
PRUDENT ORCHARDlST
NOW SPRAYING TREES
Esrly Spraying Brings Big Profit
agricultural College Spray
Bulletins Had Free.

In Josephine county there are many
small orchards that would yield the
owners good profit were they but
properly cared for, but as they stand
they are loss for they occupy land
that would produce other crops. The
trees in these orchards have a struggle
for their very existence for cattle
break their limbs, horses eat off their
bark, anthracnose and San Jose scale
kills the branches and twigs, the cod
ling moth ruins the fruit and dozen
other pests either sap the vitality of
the tree or destroy the fruit. But
the price that first-class fruit will
bring makes the orchard one of the
farmers most profitable investments.
In proportion to the returns an or
chard is no more expensive than is
band of cattle, sfeep or hogs. field
of hay or grain or potatoes.
1t is at this season of the year that
the progressive farmer begins the
work for the season Of caring for his
fruit trees. II it is an old orchard
that is being revived the first thing is
to prune the trees very closely and
scrape off all moss and loose bark
from the limbs and trunk. Then
spray from time to time. All who
have spraying to do should send for
| h-1 af tha arft anf
station of the Oregon Agricultural
Colleps. at Corvallis. Applications
should be addressed to DR.. James
Withycombs, director, who will send
this bulletin free of charge, as also all
the bulletins Of which the experiment
station gets large number each year
covering every phase of farm work
and products. Bulletin NO. 70 was
prepared by Prof. A. B. Cordley. of
the experiment station, and deals
with insectides and fungicides, giving
the formulas for their preparation and
the methods of applying them.
The following sprays are the ones
used at this season Of the year by or
chardists aud their formula and use is
herewith given:
No. 10. Lime, Sulphur and Salt.
The lime, sulphur and salt wash is
one of the most satisfactory sprays for
San Jose scale and is also OF value as
"a fungicide. 1t is in fact the very
best Winter spray for cleaning up old
neglected moss-grown and diseased or
chards. It is primarily a Winter
spray but when much reduced IN
strength has b en- used to advantage
as a Summer spray for San Jose scale
Several methods of preparing it are
recommended, but the following.
known as the Oregon formula, is the
most satisfactory in this climate:
Quick lime. .................50 80 pounds
! Sulphur. ............:....o oO pounds
Salt ...................2 20 to 80 pounds
Water ...... ...............l5 100 gallons
Slake the lime thoroughly, add the
sulphur, cover with water, and boil
briskly for at least an hour. Then ado
the salt and boil 10 or 90 minutes lon
ger or until the mixture is of a deel
blood red color with but little free
, sulphur ON the surface, Add watel
to make $50 gallons. Apply witt
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nozzle while still warm. The result:
of a number of experiments indicate
, that the salt adds nothing to the
. efficiency of this spray, but my results
have been conflicting.
No. IL. Lime, Sulphur and Copper
Sulphate
Copper sulphste is sometimes used
in place of salt in the formula, which
is then as follows:
Lime. .......................5O 80 pound,
Sulphur ................. 80 pounds
Copper rsulphate .....s to 10 pouhd'
WaU ..........,.. 'loV Sdiiou'
This is prepared in the same man
ner as No. 10, is equally effective a:
a remedy for San Jose scale and may
be slightly more efficient as fungi
, eide, Furtherr experiments are neces
sary to determine whether the salt
or the copper sulphste adds anything
to the efficiency of these sprays.
: HYOMEI CURES CATARRH