The Nevada County picayune., 1919-06-19
man who has properly cared for his fruit to ship tt along with that com ing from the neglected orchard

A~A ~uo uSe prOp6fly cared TOT his fruit to ship t along with that com ing from the neglected orchard.
 If you are selling a car load of nogr and your own lot contained only well grown and healthy hogs, would you want to load them on the same car with the razor back that had cholera and accept the same price for them on the market? Certainly you woulI not! But do you realize that the same thing is true in the shipping of fruit? If one fellow brings in just q few baskets of diseased. unsprayed fruit and loads it into the cars with the sound, sprayed fruit it has exact ly the same effect on the price to he paid for that car of fruit as would the sick hogs in the other.
 The time is soon coming when the railroad companies will refuse 10 ac. eent for shipment fruit that has no. been sprayed and is not free from disease at the time it is loaded int the cars.
 Brown rot can be controlled hv properly spraying the fruit with self hoile3 lime sulphur solution and there is no reason why any orchardist need come hauling in lot of diseased stuff asking that 1t be accepted and ae=t = arket By spraying l mean thoroughly covering the fru.t and ro- liage Wiyh tLe material Onlv thar sa covered will be protected aga8nse fhe disease Simply driving alans rna rows touching he trees here and thcrc i4 not praying and such work is practically useless. Dc yoar work rishf
 The Department of Agriculture. tre Experiment Stations and the various railroads through their agricultural agents have spent time and money in working out methods for the con trol of diseases and insects. Self boiled lime sulphur has proven the best material for use in the control Of brown rot. Yet We find many peo- pie using some kind of substitute that is either worthless or far inferior to the material recommended Some of these men have been told time and again and have had these things dem. Onstrated right before their eyes, yet they use substitutes. Why is this the case?
 Please bear in mind that a tner- oueh spraying should be given the peaches. about four weeks previous 10 the time of harvest. Notice the word thorough in the above sentence and make vour spraying measure np to it. | has often been noticed that brown rot does it's greatest damage from the time the starch in the fruit begins 10 change to sugar up 10 the time of ripening. IL is therefore eyi- dent why il is necessary to empha- size thereughness in the work al tn,s time
 Two years ago the various eommis- sion men who bought peaches Tn ar- kansas were disappointed in the qual- ity Of the fruit We have splendid crop of Elbertas this year Let's keep them in condition for the market and in this way encourage buyers to come 10 Arkansas for real first class peaches. This is the only way m which we can win out and establish a desirable record for our fruit. To accomplish tsis We need the hearty cooperation of every peach grower in the state. If you are peach grow CT help us to make the quality of our peaches better. It means more satis- fed customers. more money 10 the grower and easier sales in the future. Spray and spray thoroughly.