Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-22
SAVE THE FRUIT BY SPRAYING. All Can Be Ready For Treatment
 Just After Petals Fall.

Fruit is a food and as such we must do all We can to have good apples and pears. It is not altogether the food value of the apple which we must con- sider but the fact that fruit contains acids and other materials which act on the human system. and keep the body healthy We all know that peo- pie living on diet without fresh fruits and vegetables soon become un- healthy. Onions may be eaten raw in place of fruit, but most of us would prefer an apple, but this apple should be a good one. Let us grow apples which we can eat in the dark with no fear of finding only half a worm when we get into the light.
 It is too late to give the dormant spray and for many growers, too late for the Pink" Spray, that is, just be- fore the blossoms open, but all can be ready to give a spraying just after the petals or blossoms fall. This is the most important spray of all, If only one is applied, and should give crop of fruit, containing large per cent of perfect apples. A large per cent of the codlin moth, the insect which causes many of the wormy ap- ples, is killed with this spray the later broods of this insect do not do as much damage as this early one. We can also control or check some of the fungus troubles at this time. The following materials may be used, in making up spray. Used in these amounts they will make barrel of spray.
 Lime sulphur solution, 1 gallon; 3 pounds of arsenate of lead paste or half this amount of the powdered; if aphids or plant lice are present add hol ny~ fn nf Leaf 40. Bordeaux Mixture may be used in place of the Lime Sulphur solution with the other materials added. Bordeaux Lead may be used Hyrox is also a good material to use, mixing about seven pounds for bar ] rel of spray.
 i For people who have but one medi- um sized tree it will take about five gallons of spray material. This means that if you use Pyrox. mix about 12 ounces of the Pyrox in five | gallons of water This material is l both poison and fungicide. If Lime Sulphur solution and arsenate of lead is used. add a scant half pint of the lime sulphur solution to the water and five ounces of the arsenate paste or 2h ounces of the powdered. For small growers who have only a few trees the ready mixed goods such as Pyrox or Bordeaux Lead will prob ably be easier to prepare.
 These same spray materials can and i should be used on the current bushes as soon as the fruit is set, watch and see that the worms do not eat up the entrants.
 In spraying the fruit trees apples, pears and quinces, be careful to get the spray material on the leaves and the young fruits, the poison must be there for the insects to eat. Where the spraying is carefully done, and it does not drip to any extent on the ground, no harm will come to poultry or other animals, the greatest danger to animals or poultry comes, not from the spraying, but from the fact that spray materials are left where ami mals or poultry can eat them.
 ;, For cherries and European plums Pyrox or Bordeaux may be used just after the blossoms fall; for the Jap anse plums more care must be used and the work must be done on a.day
 when the material will dry at once.
 If you have but one apple tree
 spray it carefully, if you have many
 spray to have fruit for the people who have none. Last year proved
 without a doubt that spraying paid S. P. Hollister, Connecticut Agricult- i ural College