The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-04
GRANGE.
Weekly Press News Letter--Cherries
Rotting on the Trees-How to
Prevent It---Plant Lice on
Apple Trees.

Rotting on the TreeS-HOW to
Prevent It---Plant Lice on
Apple Trees.
A number of inquiries were receiv-
ed lately by the Division of Zoology
of the Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture for scientific formula
for spraying mixture to be
used on peach, plum and cherry trees
to keep the fruit from rotting. The
answer of Prof. H. A. Surface, the
State Zoologist, is as follows:
THE ripe rot or brown rot is due
to a fungous disease, which attacks
the ripening fruit of peach, plum and
cherry trees, and is to be prevented
by spraying before or about the time
the fruit is half grown with the self
boiled lime-sulfur wash. Into a bar
rel put eight pounds of fresh lime or
quick lime and eight pounds of sui
fur, and into this pour four or five
gallons of hot water, and cover it
with cloth to keep in the heat. Stir
occasionally with hoe or something
to keep it from burning to the bot
tom and to keep it from settling too
much. Let it remain an hour. Then
dilute it to fifty gallons, and spray it
over the trees. Cold water should
be used for diluting. Repeat this
after hard rain, or if it does not
rain repeat in week or two, and
continue until just before the fruit
commences to ripen,. when there is
no need to continue the spraying, be-
cause to spray it on ripening fruit
means to- discolor the fruit and thus
render it unmarketable, although it
will not be poisonous, and will not be
unfit for use, even though it should
be stained Ly the spray liquid.
This self-Doiled lime-;ullur wash
is not recommended for scale insects,
and it il not to be replaced by the
concentrated lime-sulfIr solutions
now on tGe market, nor by the home
boiled wash which we recommend as
the best and cheapest material for
treating scale insects. 1t is a differ
ent preparation, made by different
formula and method, and these ma
terials should not be confused
The Woolly Aphis on apple trees
generally works in spots where the
bark has been injured and can at
such places be easily killed by paint
ing with very strong soap solution,
using paint brush, and pushing the
soap solution we'll into the cracks of
the infected parts. If not treated
it keeps the wound sore and often re-
suits IN knots, gals or other kinds
of reformation. Where the pest has
spread TO other parts of the tree, such
/ as to the leaves, it can be killed by
spraying with whale oil soap, one
pound in six gallons of water; or COM
mon laundry or other soaps, one
pound in three or four gallons OF
water; or, perhaps best of all, with
on eight per cent. kerosene emulsion
ihiS emulsion is recommended fer all
aoCking insects, such as plant lice
roSe-leaf hoppers, young scale in
seCts, etc. 1t is made by shaving one.
haif pound OF hard soap of any kind
INTO a gallon of boiling water and
stirring it Gntil it is dissolved. Into
this pour TWO gallons OF kerosene
! CATER removing it from the fire.
and beat it or whip it like beating
eggs, or, better, churn it around
through the spray pump, about five
minutes, when it will assume thick
creamy mass, and will be a perman.
ent stock emulsion from which you
can take supply to mix in water
when needed. For this take one
part of the stock emulsion to ter
parts of water, and this will make
about eight per cent. actual kerosene
in the dilute emulsion. By this treat
ment the kerosene loses some of its
original qualities, and does not fioat
on the water, but becomes dissolved
or absorbed in it, and does not do the
injury to vegetation that it would i
the pure kerosene were used on foil
age. At the same time it is also
strong enough to kill such pests.
The Woolly Aphis also works OF
the roots, often causing serious de
formities or knots, and remains a
such injured places. Whenever the!
are discovered they can likewise b'
treated by painting with strong soal
solution or by uncovering the root
and coating them we'll with tinel,
powdered tobacco dust, and thel
replacing the earth. The fertilizin,
value of tobacco dust will alone b.
sufficient to justify this work.