The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1914-04-10

one peach tree or ten thousand, and
want perfect fruit, you must spray
to get it. Likewise, if you want to get
perfect apples on one tree or thous-
ands of them, spraying with the
proper materials and at the proper
time is absolutely essential.
And spraying time is about here.
Within ten days or two weeks after
the blooms have fallen from the trees
the first spraying should be given,
and Others should be given as indi-
Gated
There are certain insects and dis
eases which attack the fruit, which
can be controlled in no other way
State Entomologist E. Lee Worsham
points out; and unless these insects
and diseases are controlled, there can
be no perfect fruit.
Peach growers all over Georgia sh
Peach growers all over Georgia
should be getting ready now to fight
the plum curculio and the brown rot,
Mr.. Worsham says, for If they do not
this bug and disease are likely to
claim heavy toll of Georgia's biggest
money making fruit
Every orchard grower is familiar
with these pests, but many of those
who have only a few trees and do
not make study of bugs and other
things that effect them, often wonder
why their fruit is wormy and why it
rots on the trees before it ripens.
The Bug that Makes The Worm.
The plum curcluio is the little bug
that makes the big fat worms grow
inside of the pretty peach, and which
the too eager teeth sometimes strike
before Investigating. The brown
is fungus growth which attacks the
fruit as it approaches maturity and
causes 1t to rot on the trees before it
is ready to be picked for market. Hne
loss from brown rot has frequently
been as high as 25 to so per cent,
and sometimes as high as 95 per cent.
where its development is encourag-
ed by damp, wet weather.
There is a way to control both
these pests and produce perfect fruit.
1t requires little effort and a small
expense, but the result is we'll worth
it.
The curculio is controlled by
spraying with a solution of arsenate
of lead in the proportion of 2 pounds
to so gallons of water, to which is
added a milk of lime solution made
from three pounds of stone lime.
The trees should be sprayed with this
solution at last twice in the spring,
the first time just as the calyces or
shucks are shedding, which will be
ordinarily about ten days or two
weeks after the PINK blooms have fall
len, and the second time about two
to three weeks later. Weak trees
should never be sprayed more than
twice, but in healthy vigorous, or
chards where the foliage growth is
dense, three applications are recon-
mended. This plan carefully fol-
lowed will keep the worms out of
the peaches.
For brown rot Independently Of
curculio, there should be at least
two sprayings with a homemade
lime sulphur solution which will be
described; one shortly after the
calyces or shucks have fallen and the
other about four weeks later.
Spraying for Both
But it is usual and most often nee
essary to spray for curculio and
brown rot at the same time, when
three sprayings are used as follows:
First Sprayin-About the time the
calyces or shucks are shedding, using
solution of pounds arsenate of lead
and three pounds stone lime to so
gallons of water
Second Spraying three
weeks later, using self-boiled lime
sulphur solution and arsenate of
lead combined, in the proportion Of
pounds of lime 8 pounds of sulphur
and pounds of arsenate of lead to
so gallons of water.
Third Spraying.-About four
weeks after the second, using the
self-boiled lime-sulphur solution
alone, without the arsenate of lead.
The last spraying for brown rot
should be made at least thirty days
before the fruit ripens.
If the curculio is numerous and
the trees are hardy and strong, ars-
enate of lead may be added for the
third spraying.
The chronological department be-
lieves three sprayings necessary to
get the best results, but fairly good
results have been obtained from two