The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-08-02
ORCHARDS NEED ATTENTION
NOW SAYS BURRILI
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little like mud turtles coming out
from under their shells and grow up
in eight days during warm weather.
Then they begin egg-laying at top
speed for they have only twelve days
more to live.
Methods of control can be divided
into the cultural methods which
should have been practiced last fall
or this spring; and the spray meth
DDS.
After a bean crop is off, burn the
stalks or pillow under deep. Start a
weed campaign on your surroundings
since red spider mite flourishes in
early spring and later on such weeds
as pokeweed, Jerusalem oakweed,
jamestown or Unison weed, bind
weed or mOrning-glory vines, etc. Put
in crops which the red spider mite
does not like to eat so well, as:
Onions, turnips, cabbage, potatoes,
oats, clover mot red), beets, rad
ishes, small grains generally, timo-
thy, and in flower gardens, choose
nasturtium instead of hardy phlox and
the like.
AS to sprays. sulfide of potash, 8
lbs. to 100 gals. water has been sue
c~essful, but we understand can not be
had in town in quantity. We therefore
repeat the formulate given last Sunday
with changes suggested at the confer
ence at the Rogerson hotel meeting.
Three-in-One Spray combination to
include Goblin moth: To 100 gals.
water add ga to l pit. of Black Leaf,
2 IL lbs. of arsenate of lead powder,
2 - gals. of lime sulfur testing go
degrees Baume, and separately mix 4
lbs. of cheap wheat flour to a thin
batter with water and then cook in 2
gals. of water to a paste, the whole to
be added to the above formula as a
s%preader instead of soap, which is
hurtful to lime-sulfur and lead ar
senate mixtures. 1t will be noticed
that the above formula is using Black
Leaf 40 at the advertised rate of from
l to 1900 or a 1000 and lime-sulfur at
l to so summer strength.
1t developed at the conference tina.
there was no quantity of high grade
lime-sulfur in town but that the Dia-
mond Hardware company could come
to the rescue with a new spray ma
terial called Lilly's Niagara brand So
luble Sulfur which will mix with the
above combination in place of lime
sultur, but omit the lead arsenate, at
the rate of As lbs. to the 100 gallon
lot.
Insist on getting the Soluble
Sulful which has not been exposed to
much moisture, as it takes up water
from the air and loses it's efficiency.
despite the fact that Is per cent of
its bulk is inert matter. 1t has Sc per
cent sodium po%hysulfide, 25 per cent
sodium thiosulphate, 4 per cent free
sultul. The manufacturers claim the
grower is saved the cost of ~ransport-
ing water as in ~lime-sulful, but the
material is not just as good as lime
sulfur except in the case of the i'm
mediate pest and a few others. It
seems to be a soda ash and sulfur
fused in great heat, cooled and ground
up.
In the Hood river district where red
SPIDER mite has done much harm to
apples, there seems to be a greater
favor for oil emulsion SPRAYS. hut do
not attempt this unless you can get
$50 lbs. pressure with your sprav ma
cDlne, as oil will spread only in pro-
portion to the force with which if is
throWn, and poor pressure will endan-
ger the separating of oil to attack
the crown of the tree and elsewhere.
becoming as dangerous as the burn
Ing possibilities of lime-sulfur. More
over in these oil emulsions where
soap is used or lye or caustic. it IS
not safe to add lead arsenate accord
ing to the best chemical advice at
hand.
Oil Formulate: There is a yellow
ism amber commercial miscible oil
on the market known as ''yel-ros7 for
making emulsions at the rate 1 1-2
gals. to 100 gals. of water, with Black
Lear 40 added as before. YeI-ros is
Z per cent phenols, so per cent hydro
carbon oils, IL per cent inert matter
But we understand that this is NOT
10 be a locally, so it may be nos
slDle TO substitute Pratt's Scalecide
OF Sultoc1de for red spider, probably
cheaper tina ~lime-sulfur. The Sulfo-
cloe is 80 per cent sulfur; and the
ocaieclde is 20 per cent petroleum
OIL ~ per cent vegetable oil, 2 per
cent n~aphthaline, 1 per cent alkali.
u per cent water. Less safe mis-
clple Oils are the distillates, and kero-
senc emulsion.
Ihlrd Formulae: 100 gals. water
IL pit. Black Leaf 40, 2 gals. distilIate
emulslf1ed with 4 lbs. whale oil soan
OF yellow resin laundry soap.
Fourth Formulate: 100 gals. wa
Ter, l pit. Black Leaf 40, 5 per cent
kerosene emulsion (made from 2 10
gals. water heated to dissolve 2 bars
laundry soap, take off fire and add :
gals. Kerosene, agitate violently bv
pumping bach On itself before it cools
This is &C 2-3 per cent oil, added TO
100 gals. water above, gives a ) per
cent solution.
owing to lack of experience at this
attitude please report results to the
Farm Bureau.