Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1910-05-05
TREE SPRAYING
SEASON AT HAND
HINTS FROM OFFICIALS ABOUT
THIS SCIENCE.
Inspectors Advise That Work Should
Be Effected from Above the Flow
ers So Liquid May Fall Into and
Around the Petals Cups

. NASAhA AHG TCNAtA OGRS.
"As the season approaches tn,
fruit grower should prepare a cam
paign against the eodling moth" SAL
the Idaho state horticultural inspect
ors.
"of course it will be some time be
fore actually starting to spray, but
it is best to have everything ready
beforehand.
DO not wait until the last moment
but overhaul the entire outfit in am.
pie time
IF We wait for the time for this
work We generally find many things
are needed to complete the outfit.
Some Of them may difficult TO pro
cure on short notice, and the delay
of even a day may lose many dollars
that might be otherwise saved.
When you have your outfit in
proper repair. and secured your ma
terial, everything awaits the proper
time for your work
1T is best TO use a good quality of
arsenate Of lead. and see that the
material has the endorsement OF the
nearest experiment station.
When the blossoms are nearly off.
there should be no time lost, but the
work is to be started at once.
II you have varieties that bloom
at different times It is an advantage
to arrange so that your trees will not
have to wait more than one week
from the time that the petals are off
before they are sprayed.
Remember that, should the wealth
er be warm, many Of the varieties
will close their calyxes within five
or seven days from the time the
petals drop; and it is the little apples
which close their calyxes first that
are most likely to set and make the
coming crop of fruit.
The first blossoms that open will
be found in the center of the cluster
Of blooms. or buds. and in most In
stances will be pointing upward; and
in Order that we may successfully fill
each Of these eup-shaped calyxes it
is necessary that we spray from the
top Of the tree down, as well as from
the base up. In order TO do this it
sometimes is necessary that plat
form be built above the spray tank
for the operator to spray.
Unless this first spray is done
there will be little accom-
plished by the later ones. One good
spray well done at the proper time
viii do more towards insuring you a
crop free from worms than all the
others that you may apply.
Many successful apple growers
spray a second time. within four or
five days from the first. The object
Of this spray. following up the first, |
S that the blossoms do not all follow,
ana Nnlle the tlrst spray has filled
Ill the cslyxes that are developed at
he time. in order to get the latter
n the ideal condition it is important
10 follow back over the orchard.
$50 successful has this method be-
,ome that many OF the growers are
95 per cent clean fruit with 1
he two sprayings.
SPRAY again in one month from /
he date OF the first treatment. and I
inless the orchard was quite free
rom worms the previous year. It may
,e well to spray still once more at
he end Of another month
DO not be discouraged because {
rour neighbor does not properly spray
lis orchard; but see to IL that the I
does his duty and keeps /
his kind OF fruit out of the market I
L this is done you will in a very I
short time have your neighbor edu-
,ated to the plane Of a better or
,hardist and citizen"