The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-04-21
PRACTICAL POINTS
About Fruit and Foliage-Article
Tells How to Meet Their
Friends:

There are but three OF four
kinds of sprays necessary to be
used in the control of orchard
pests. Time for control of scale is
past for this season but for the
others the TIME is just approach
ing. To control apple scab use
hme-sulphus solution at the rate
OF one and half gallons solution
to so gallons of water. This solu-
ton can be made by boiling Is
lbs OF sulphur for 30 minutes,
slack Is lbs, stone lime IN enough
water to make thin paste then
put the two together and boil for
couple of hours. However for
the small Use it is much cheaper
and less trouble to buy the conn
mercial solution. 1t is just as ef-
fectlve As the home made. or use
Bordeaux Mixture This is madt
by suspending in burlap ) lbs.
blue vitrol in FIVE gallons of
water and Stacking lbs. stone
lime in enough water TO make a
thin paste. In mixing be sure to
dilute with water one or the
other OF the solutions before ad-
ding the other. That is, do not put
the lime paste and the vitrol So
luton together before diluting
with water. In the use of Bor-
deaux on peach or plum care
must be taken not to get the So
luton stronger than ) lbs. blue
vitrol to 30 gallons of water, how
ever. the best results last wear
were obtained from the use of
the hme-sulphur solution. These
solutions are used for the control
of Scabon applies or pears and
for rot on plumbs, peaches or in
fact any fruit as well as the con-
troll OF curl leaf on peaches. Rem
enlber this: Bordeaux Mixture
will not kill insects neither will
lime sulphur unless used at
strength that would kill the foil
age, too, and then it does not
poison them but stops up the
breathing pores in their bodies
and smothers them to death. To
kill such insects as the apple
and pear worm, currant worm,
pdtatoe bug and every other in
sect that eats the fruit or foliage
there is nothing seems to fill the
bill quite so we'll as arsenate of
lead. 1t is better than paris green
because it sticks better, that is,
1t forms a paste on the foliage
or fruit that will not wash off
readily and it is just as sure
death to the insect that takes a
nibble at it as is paris green. 1t
should be used at about the rate
of 1oz. to / gallon of water. In
spraying during spring and ear
ly summer lime-sulphur IS and
arsenate of lead 3 so should be
mixed and both applied at the
same time thus fighting both the
insect and fungus growth. In us
ing paris green one should put
? or 3 times as much lime with
it as there is in paris green an
acid that will burn the foliage
| If put on a little too strong. ii
hydrate of lime is used instead
OF Stone lime, put in about l 1-2
or 2times as much as you would
stone lime. The plum Curculio
is hard customer to deal with.
Spraying with lime-sulphur 1-5O
will help but as he works all
summer it is necessary to light
him all summer. Give your plum
trees a dose every 2 or 3 weeks
and you will get lots of the lit
tie bugs. Earring the trees early
in the orning and collecting the
Decides in sheet spread under
the tree helps. Burn the little
pests after You have them col
lected.
Coal oil emulsion is made by
dissolvihg in lone gallon rain
water a pound of laundry soap
and mixing with ? gallons coal
oil and agitating until it becomes
thick creamy substance. Di-
lutte about 10 times with water
and spray rose bushes or currant
bushes. 1t will kill the rose bug
and worm as we'll as any other
soft bodied insect.