Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-03-10
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CARE OF FRUIT TREES.
Full Direction as How to Spray and
What to Spray With.


Spray all fruit trees while in dor
mant stage which will be from No
vember to February inclusive. This
spraying is with the lime sulphur wash
and Is made as follows: Put Is gal
Ions water in large iron kettle and
bring to boiling point. Weigh out 10
lbs. flour or flowers Of sulphur and pour
enough water on it to make a thin
paste. Now pour this in the kettle of
boiling water and continue to boil.
Weigh out 20 lbs. stone lime and put 1t
in the kettle of boiling water and sui
phur. Keep the solution boiling vio-
lently, not a slow simmer. If the solu-
tion begins to boil over, check it by
pouring in small amount of cold wa
ter. Continue to boil until the color
changes to an olive green or to dark
red color. This will require from As to
so minutes Of violent boiling. When
this color is obtained add enough cold
water to make fifty gallons of the
whole mixture. Strain the mixture in
to the spray tank and apply while still
warm. meal or flour sack makes a
good strainer. Cover every part OF
the tree thoroughly, and any scale in
sect, insect eggs or fungus disease
spores on the trees will be killed
Spray all thin bark shade trees with
the same substance as these scale in
sects attack all thin bark trees, espe-
cially fruit trees and naples. This
spraying positively must not be done
before the leaves fall from the trees,
off ha hid 70
is the only spraying that need be done
during the winter.
Directions For Spraying Apple or Pear
Trees.
The first spraying to be given apple
and pear trees after the winter spray
ing with lime sulphur wash should be
given Just after the buds begin to
swell, before the blossoms are out
This spraying Is to kill fungus spores
and make the tree healthy. The spray
solution to be used this time is Bor-
deaux mixture, which is made as fol-
lows: Put five pounds of copper sui
phate (bluestone) in a sack and sus-
pend it in a vessel containing 4 or 5
gallons water, preferably warm water.
Let the bluestone barely be covered by
water, as 1t will dissolve more rapidly
this way than If allowed to rest on the
bottom of the vessel. Slake five pounds
of stone lime and add enough water to
make a thin liquid. Strain the two So
lutions. Now, pour the two solutions
in barrel, pouring both at same time.
A third person should stir the solution
while 1t is being poured into the bar
rel. Now, add enough water to make
SO gallons and stir thoroughly. Be
sure that every twig and every portion
nf nnUara6
The next spraying should be given
the apple Immediately after the bios
SONS fall, certainly not later than ten
days after they fall. This spraying is
for the purpose Of holding in check the
fungus diseases, and the codling moth
which is the common apple worm. The
codling moth lays her eggs in the
calyx or blossom end of the apple just
about the time the blossoms fall.
About five days from this time the egg
matches into the worm and it imme-
diately begins to eat it's way toward
the centre of the apple. About two
weeks after the blossoms fall the end
closes up and all the spraying you can
do will not reach the worm. This Is
the reason why it is so very important
to spray soon after the blossoms fall.
The solution to be used this time Is a
combined insecticide-fu fungicide in or
der that you may kill the fungus dis
eases and the apple worm at the same
time. Use Bordeaux mixture with 6
OF. paris green or three pounds ar
senate of lead mixed with each barrel
of the Bordeaux. Mix the poisons
with enough water to make a thin IL
quid and then add to the Bordeaux and
stir thoroughly before using. 3rd.
The next spraying should be with the
same substance and about three weeks
after the preceding spraying. 4th.
The fourth spraying should be given
three weeks after the third one and
About three weeks after the fourth
spraying has been given the fifth one
should be given and with the same
substance. 9Th. Give the sixth spray
ing with the same mixture and about
three weeks after the fifth has been
given.
If the above sprayings are given
thoroughly, first-class apples will sure
ly result, provided the orchard is prop
erly cultivated, fertilized and pruned.
If you think you cannot do much
spraying and are determined to omit
some Of those recommended, let it be
the one just before the blossoms open,
and the last one or two. The results
from spraying apple trees will not be
at all satisfactory unless at least three
sprayings are given in addition to the
winter spraying.
Directions For Spraying Peaches,
Plums and Cherries.
Of course they should have the WIN
ter spraying Of lime sulphur. The End
spraying should he given just after
the blossoms fall with the self-boiled
lime-sulphur and arsenate of lead,
which is made as follows:
Put eight pounds of stone lime into
a barrel and pour enough water on 1t
to cover 1t. AS soon as the lime begins
to slake add pounds of sulphur. Stir
the mixture constantly and gradually
add more water until the lime is well
slaked, then add enough water to make
so gallons which will cool the mixture
and check further boiling. Strain into
spray tank and add three pounds of
arsenate of lead which has previously
been mixed with a small amount of
water. 1t is now ready for use. The
foliage of the peach, plum and cherry
will not be damaged by this mixture,
but it would by the Bordeaux. The
lime sulphur kills the rot fungus and
the arsenate of lead the curculio which
punctures the small fruit and causes
1t to fall from the tree. 3rd. Give
third spraying with same solution two
weeks after second. 4th. Spray with
self boiled limesulphur two weeks af-
ter third spraying, leaving out arsen-
ate of lead, as there is no danger from
now on from the curculio. 5th Spray
with self boiled lime sulphur at inter-
walls of two weeks until fruit is nearly
ripe.
Directions For Spraying Grapes.
|. Spraying with Bordeaux arsenate
of lead mixture just before bloom
opens.
2. Spray with plain Bordeaux after
fruit has set.
3. Repeat 2nd spraying every two
weeks until fruit is three fourths
grown. After this give one or two
sprayings with self-boiled me-sul-
phur. l.. A. Niven.
ODD WAYS OF TELLING TIME.