Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-11-27
SPRAYING T NE
Fruit Growers Busy These Days in
Kidding Trees Of Insects BY Use
of insecticides.
Of INSECTICIDES.

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| AS the lime Is near at hand for fall
| spraying, to rid trees of scale insects,
and as many inquiries In regard to
the lime-sulphur wash, the kind Of
spraying apparatus to use and cost OF
| the same, have been received at the
| Division Of the Pennsylvania De part
ment OF Agriculture, the following re-
ply by the head of the division. Prof.
II. A. Surface, state zoologist, will
suffice for all, and will be Of interest
to every person owning fruit trees,
whether few or many.
"You can either make your own
lme-sulphur solution and destroy the
Gale by its use. making this material
by boiling together the lime and sui
phur, or you can buy it ready made
I'm the concentrated form, ready to
dilute with eight times It's bulk of
water and spray on the trees and kill
the scale. III is cheaper to make It,,
but where you have only few trees,
1t Is more troublesome. Either form
will kill the scale if applied strong
enough. and neither will hurt the
trees If applied at any strength what
ever The home-boiled lime-sulphur
is made by boiling four pounds of sui
phur (either flowers or -four with
five and one-half pounds o. quick lime
and water enough to boil them, and
afterward add .nough water to make
he total bulk not more than twelve
gallons. Strain this well The strain
ing is very important. Clogging of
MOBILES and sloppy work is generally
due to lack OF proper straining. The
best way to strain is TO use brass wire
cloth thirty meshes to the inch, set
ting 1t at an angle across the funnel,
or built as a cone with the point
standing upright in the strainer fun
mel
Spray The lilne-sulphur wash (eith-
err homemade or commercially direct
ly over the trees at any time after the
leaves are off, giving them two good
coats, one from each side. Take ad-
vantage of an opposite wind to spray
the opposite side of the rec Repeat
this in the spring when the buds are
swelling.
you can buy of most seedsmen in
expensive spraying apparatus. For
such trees as you have at present a
complete outfit. costing not more than
five dollars, would serve the purpose.
Nearly all manufacturers of spraying
material make these small and cheap
er sprayers. which are generally in
the form of hand sprayers, bucket
sprayers, compressed air tanks or
knapsack sprayers. The highest price
that they should cost should not be
more than ten dollars, and from some
manufacturers a cheap outfit can be
Every person growing even a few
trees and shrubs should have his own
spraying apparatus of the size and
power adapted to his needs
"You cannot expect to keep your
trees free from scale by preventive
means. The point is TO spray them
when they are infested, and thus keep
the scale under control. There is real
ly no need of spraying for scale t a
time when it is not present. The
quantity OF the lime-sulphur solution
to be prepared, as given above, is for
The owner of a few trees. In regular
orchard work, it is preferable to new
er make less than a 50-gallon guam
tity at one time, when the proportions
of materials used are II pounds of
sulphur and % pounds of lime, boiled
together as stated above. One hour
thorough boiling is necessary"