The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-12-02

be. 1t will be asked whether the
home you live in is owned by you
or rented, if owned by YOU, if it is
free of mortgage.
The last question is are there
any persons in the house suffering
from blindness. whether in both
eyes, and if deaf and dumb
Every citizen is asked to CO.
operate with the enumerators in
order that no mistake will occur.
Spraying Trees and Cost of Outfit.
As the time 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 Department of
Agriculture, the following reply
by the head of the Division, Prof.
H. 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
lime-s sulphur solution and destroy
the scale by its use, making this
material by boiling together the
lime and sulphur, or you can buy
it ready made in the concentrated
form, ready to dilute with eight
times its bulk of water, and spray
on the trees and kill the scale. 1t
Is cheaper to make it, but where
you have only few trees, it is
more troublesome. Either form
will kin the scale if applied strong
enough, and neither will hurt the
trees if applied at any strength
whatever. The home boiled sui
phur-lime is made by boiling four
pounds of sulphur (eitner flowers
or -four with five and one-half
pounds of quick lime and water
enough to boil them, and after
ward add enough water to
make the total bulk not more than
twelve gallons. Strain this we'll.
The straining is very important
Clogging Of nozzles 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, setting
it at an angle across the funnel,
or built as a cone with the point
standing upright in the strainer
funnel.
SPRAY the lime-sulphur wash,
either home made or commercial,
directly over the trees at any time
after the leaves are off, giving them
two good coats. one from each
side. Take advantage OF an oppo-
site wind to spray the opposite
side. Re peat this in the spring
when the buds are swelling.
"Yon can buy of most seedmen
inexpensive spraying apparatus.
For such trees as you have at pres
ent a complete outfit, costing not
more than five dollars, would serve
the purpose. Nearly all manufac-
turers of spraying material make
these smaller and cheaper sp1ayer,
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, cheap outfit
can be bought for one-third this
Every person growing
even few trees and shrubs should
have his own spraying apparatus
of the size and power adapted to
his needs.
"You can not expect to keep
your trees free from scale by pre-
tentative means. The point is to
spray them when they are infested,
and thus keep the scale under con-
troll. There is really no need of
spraying for scale at time when
it is not presene. The quantity of