The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-02-01

L am wondering IL MT. ii. was no.
just joking about the impossibility Of
warding off the ravages of the deer;
maybe he was and | will get laughed
at for taking him seriously. If he
was, then, was he also joking wher
he says Vermont raises the finest
apples in the world? No, no, thai
can not be, for then great and gooC
men would not come to his defense by
endorsing his statement. l am still
puzzled and am still laughing Selah
o. G. Estey, Big Fork, Montana
writes under date of Jan. TO- 1909, as
follows: editor Horticultural De
partment of The Ranch l have been
reading your articles on apple seal
and don't find anything which reaches
our case. We have rains almost daily
from the time blossom buds begin tc
show color till July 1. In spraying
with Bordeaux after blossoms fall we
burn the fruit so badly that 1t is un
fit for market. We tried the $3.50
$3.50, $3.50 and 6-4-50 for
mulas with the same results except
that the $3.50 showed no results
Would spraying only once, and thai
while the trees are dormant, with
1910 be sufficient in controlling
the apple scab? Or is there any solu
ton that would be effective and leave
no bad effects if applied after the
petals have fallen?
could you recommend the lime
sulphur solution for the scab?
Hope you will not throw this into
the waste basket, as about 100 fruit
growers are interested in your re-
ply"
That others may understand my
reply as well as the inquirer, l may
state that six pounds of bluestOne
(sulphate of cOpper), four pounds OF
lime and so gallons of water properly
prepared make what is called full
strength Bordeaux mixture. Double
the amount of bluestone, the other in
gradients remaining the same, makes
double strength Bordeaux, while one
half the bluestone makes hall
strength. Some chemists would vary
the lime with the varying of the blue
stone and others would not. The
double strength should never be USED
except when the trees are dormant
have found that full strength after
the bloom has fallen, will make the
fruit very rusty, but with me the hal
strength does not. Spraying with
double strength in winter would no
do any harm, but it is doubtful if sucI
a strength is needed for scab while i
is needed for black spot canker. There
is some difference of opinion amonE
hn1 ictc Of re
1t must be remembered that the
spores of the apple scab winter ove1
principally on the leaves, as l recently
stated in this paper. Destroy all the
leaves and in this way you kill mos
of the spores. Pick off and burn al
the mummified apples and then spray
with full strength or double strength
Bordeaux in the winter and then again
in the summer with half strength Bor
deauX, are the usual directions giver
by our plant pathologists.-
The statement above that the hall
strength Bordeaux had no effect will
not be generally accepted as correct
Sometimes the bluestone is not gooC
and quite often the mixing is i'm
properly done and the compound is
worthless. Get the bulletins and be
very careful in making the Bordeaux
strictly according to directions; apply
it soon after made and do the worl
thoroughly. According to our best
authorities it does not take very much
sulphate of copper (bluestone) to xii
the spores of all fungi with which il
comes in contact, Nothing is fully
equal to copper in treating all kinds
of fungi.
There is no question but the lime
sulphur compound is fungicide as
well as an insecticide, and because
of it's adhesiveness may sometimes dc