Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-20
Spraying an AppIe Orchard

Spraying an Apple Orchard
P. E. NJ, Talking Rock, Ca,
writes: I wish recipe for spray
ing apple trees when in bloom;
also a recipe for treating corn
for weevils. The corn is in the
ear and shucked.
In spraying apples concentrated
lime sulphur degrees Baume
should be used during the dormant
season. This is after the leaves
have dropped but before the buds
have opened in the spring. This
duplication is serviceable against the
San Jose scale and other scale in
sects. In the spring after the buds
are bursting, but before the bios
SONS open, you may use lime sui
phur diluted to test 1 degree Baume
with one pound of arsenate of lead
powder per SO gallons of spray. This
application is valuable for the pur-
pose of controlling apple scab, cur
culio and bud moth. Black Leaf 40
may be added to this mixture II
aphids are present.
Lime sulphur is generally made
up in a concentrated form. 1t is
used duringa the dormant season at
much greater strength than would
be permitted during the growing
season. Concentrated lime sulphur
solution diluted to l degree Baume
is a good fungicide to use on apples.
The best way to protect corn from
weeyils. is to put the grain into a
comparatively tight bin or box which
can be covered with an old carpet.
Then secure some carbon bisulphide,
pour out in shallow pans, and ret
on top of the bin containing the
grain. This will Immediately vapor:
1 ize, and being heavier than air Will
sink down through the corn ana de-
stroy all the weevils therein. "A
second treatment in the course or a
few days may be necessary to de-
stroy weevils in the egg stage at
4 the time the treatment is maze anu
which may hatch out later on anu
reinfest the corn. Carbon blsulphloe
will not injure the clothing nor
burn the hands. 1t is inflammaole.
! however, and should not be handleo
# in the presence of lights.
After the corn has been treated
Z if if is exposed to the air for a lew
hours it may be used with impunlty
for human food. This is the SIM
plest. most effective method Whlcn
has been devised for the control OIL
the granary weeVl.
Grasses Suited to Northwest
Georgia
H. P. M, Tunnel Hill, Ca
writes: I have about ten acres
IF moor upland slate and clay
land that / want to put in per-
manent pasture. What kind Oh
GRASS should I use and when is
the best time to sow it? Could
sow the land in rye this tall
and pasture same this winter
and SOW the grass SEED next
spring?
Our hest results have followed the
Iseeding of grass in the fall. Oc-
. casionally good results may be OBJ
Htained from spring planting. Much
depends on the nature Of the
weather. When there is good dis
Itribution of moisture and no late
freezes spring seeding will often
prove as satisfactory as autumn
planting, but as a rule these cond-
lions do not pertain in our state
therefore. we have found autumn
seeding Of grass to constitute the
best practice.
For the slate and clay lands of
your section there is probably moth
ing that will give you so large an
amount of grazing during the sum-
hner season as Bermuda grass.
There is an objection to planting
this grass on the part of many be-
cause of the fear that they can not
eradicate it or that it will spread
to areas where they do not wish it
Ito grow. The use of smother crops,
however, will effectively keep it un-
der control.
Next to Bermuda grass probably
THE best thing for you to use in
your section would be red top and
orchard grass. Kentucky blue grass
Twill probably grow on the northern
slopes of the hill lands of north
&Georgia. 1t will, of course, do best
on limestone areas or on those