The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1908-03-27
THE IMPORTANCE
Of SPRAYING.
Letter to F. j. Diehl Showing
What the Brown Sprayer has
Done for Vineyards.


Done for Vineyards.
Keleys Island, o, Jan. 6, 'OS.
Mr.. f j. Dieh,
Paw Paw, Mich.
Dear Strive received your letter
asking for inform ton on the spraying
question. We have not been troubled
with the rose bug here, but have had
plenty OF experience with the berry
moth. The past few years great damage
was done by that pest; however the past
year we have been successful in fight
ing it,
We are under the impression the dam
age done to your whey ard in blossoning
time was not done by the rose bug, but
by the berry moth, as that is the time
the worm goes 10 the bunch aud rolls 1t
self 10 web like spider web, and
draws the cluster OF blossoms around 1t.
1t is very necessary that this crop OF
worms he destroy ed as they turn to moth
or miller 10 IA days and one miller will
sting thousands OF berries and deposit
an egg in each one, which will hatch a
worm 10 IA days; so the process conlin-
ues until the frost comes and then the
worm will drop out of the berry and roll
up in the leaf aud stay there until the
following spring.
The past season we have had very
good success spraying; hand picking
does very little good unless done when
the grapes are in blossom. We use in
spray iug OF. white arsenic dissolved
l -, AaA hal nf
green to 50 gallons of Bordeaux mixture,
also add one and one half pound of laun-
dry soap, one and one-half gallons OF
rosin soap. In using this mixture it is
E necessary to use about 8 pounds OF
good lime inst ad of four or the poison
will burn the foliage.
$ The time TO spray is just before the
blossoms open and Immediately after
l the blossom falls, also when ia full bloom
We have found late SPRAY ing Of little i
any use 10 destroying this pest.
The spraying must be done thoroughly
We use a BROWN SPRAYER aud run
it With a 100 to l25 pounds of pressure
, aud spray both sides of the row eacl
application.
Catawba grapes are about the onl!
q grapes grown here, some Concords, anC
. other varieties; most varieties do wei
but CataN bias pay best. Last fall VI
G picked ID tons of choice Concords frou
two acres, our crop averaging better thar
1925 per acre for the 40 acres of vine
ward; so YOU see we have had some sue
cess in sprayin ing.
Respectfully yours,
BAUMAN Bros.
, PROFIT BY OTHERS EXPERIENCE.
e The results shown in the above lette
). verify what has been done in our owl
grape belt Mr. Delhi, to whom thi:
> letter was addressed, has used a Brown
I Sprayer two seasons, and his result las
a season was DO rot al all. Mr.. Chamber
. lain's one seasons Spraying with q
y Brown Sprayer resulted In practical y
no rot, ard there are others that had
] equal results.
! When you buy sprayer get it with a
guarantee that 100 gallons per acre OF
Bordeaux will be properly distributed
We have sufficient proof that the Brown
will accom- pli5h this 90 gallons of Bor-
deaux is only a waste of time and money
to the acre.
! Why should you spend three to five
years to accomplish what can be doue
in one or two years? If you are FROM Mo
this is net the first time we have shoa 4
you what we can do. We hear tn, ~
say we know the Brown is the b. II
sprayer, BUT-Oh, perhaps the price,
did you ever see good thing sold cheap?
, There is as much difference in Spray
Machinery as there is 10 handling gra pes
between one cent per basket and one-hati
cent per basket
+ Remember the Brown is always in the
field sold by the
e MICHIGAN FRUIT EXCHANGE
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