Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1906-11-21
SPRAYING FOR SAN JOSE SCALE.
Hints on When and How to Spray BY One
Who Has Learned By Experience.

Josh Billings famous lecture on
milk, started out with: ''There has
been a good deal written and said
about "Milk" but the best he ever saw
on it was the cream"
The public is sufficiently acquainted
with the history and the habit of this
dread pest, the San Jose scale, that all
they are interested IN is how to get
rid of it, and when.
First, as to the best time. We wish
to show that right now, as soon as the
leaves are off. Fall spraying is best
Tor several reasons, namely: Likely
less wind to interfere with the work:
the ground is better get on than when
soft In the spring; other work is not so
pressing;a and mainly and beyond all
other reasons, we stop the increase and
multiplying of young scale at once and
save the sapping or taking away of the
strength of the tree, which so weakens
it that there is great danger of what
might be called winter killing, for die
lAO biOO luob IL neglected..
In the erase of peach, two wears is
the best the tree can stand after once
fairly infested.
Cut off dead tops or very badly COW
cred limbs; not necessary to burn them
except to clean the ground, as the scale
never leaves after once getting fast to
the limb and dies with the limb.
They continue to live in an active
state up to the middle of November.
The very late Matched ones die from
extreme cold, freezing; but the older
ones can stand our severest cold, ice,
snow or sleet.
How to get rid of them? Spray with
a good pump that will give a pressure
through a nozzle that will furnish a
fine mist, like spray; with the sound
and appearance of kissing steam. This
is necessary to be effective. Keep
nozzle in motion. AS soon as LIQUID
forms and it begins to run there is loss
of material. No spray outfit worthy
OF the name can throw the mist over
about 10 feet to be of real good service
More than that, it forms drops or is
lost In the power to properly cover the
surface.
No need to add arsenical poisons to
the spray liquid for this scale.
We have come to the conclusions af-
ter considerable experimenting during
the past five years that after all it is
the oily nature fthe sulphur, as form
ed with the sulphur-lime wash, that
does the work in loosening the scale
from the bark.
The work must be done; if delayed it
is at the expense of the trees.
There is great gain by doing this in
the Fall. Then If in doubt, go over
the trees again in the Spring. One
good, thorough spraying a year will
keep scale in control, and any good
spray should kill all that are hit. Some
do escape and these, together with
what are carried from unsprayed trees,
is what makes it necessary to go over
them again.
Some say once in two years is suffi-
Gent. But when scale are known to be
present, spray. No need to spray un-
less there are lice and scale on the
trees.
The effects of this scale can be seen
almost on every hand in going through
the country, and even in the towns it
Is worse on account of the English
sparrows, who carry it to almost every
tree and bush.
As to the formula to use: This is not
so important If you use the lime-sul-
phur wash. You can vary from one
half sulphur to equal part of lime.
Salt may be used or not.
The self-boiling if well done, or re.
boiling, will do the work.
Do not try to mix with this the new
commercial insecticides. If YOU use
the latter, just use them by themselves
as the lime destroys the oils by sepa-
rating them; makes them like curdTed
milk.
OF the oil sprays there are several
on the market. Some too expensive
"Scalecide" is the leading one and
works ,as free as water; nothing to
clog; is ready to work at once when
put together with the water, and stays
SO; no severing. Saves one-half the
labor of spraying, and no expensive
outfit TO prepare it.-A Sprayer.