Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-04

upon the brine. You may use a
coating of octtonseed oil on the
surface instead of paraffin and eX-
clude air from the brine in this
way.
In preparing sauerkraut for a
small family, it is better to use
number of small crooks than just
one large container. This enables
the family to use only what is need
ed from time to time and lessons
the danger of spelling.
The season of the year when fall
Irish potatoes should be 9-anted is
at hand. The ground should be
broken to a good depth and stirred
frequently so as to produce a fine
filth. Wide, deep burrows should
be opened. Plenty of fertilizer should
be put in the middles and well mixed
with the subsoil by means of a bull
tongue. You may purchase the
planting seed. The Lookout Noun
tain is on of the best strains
to plant at this season. Small, I'M
cut potatoes may be used, if you
prefer. Whenever there is sea-
son in the ground, put out the seed.
Cover deeply into the soil, and keep
the surface we'll stirred so as to
COISGEN0 ulOlSluIS. Ii YOU CAN mulch
the land planted to Irish potatoes to
a depth of several inches with straw
or partly decayed leaves, it will be
an advantage. In growing a crop
of fall Irish potatoes, it is necessary
to secure a good strain and get them
out of the ground in time to ma
ture before frosts occur.
Revamping An Old Peach Orchard
C. M. H, Admission, Ala,
writes: I have some peach trees
about ten years old on which
every limb is covered with gum
from borers, and most of the
fruit has worms in it. Is there
any chance of saving these trees,
and what procedure should I fol-
low?
Your peach trees are so diseased
and in such a bad condition gener-
ally that it is doubtful if you can do
much to improve them. Their age is
against their being resuscitated on
very satisfactory basis. OF course,
the following procedure with some
considerable success:
Trim these trees out very severely
as soon as they are defoliatad in the
fall Rake the earth away from
around the base Of the trees and
take a sharp wire and run into every
opening found for the purpose OF
killing the borers. There is a chemi-
al oicIo
this purpose which is quite effective;
but for treating few trees, we
think the procedure indicated is the
best for you to follow.
The trees should be sprayed this
fall with a lime-sulphur solution to
destroy the scale. They will need
to be sprayed again in the spring
on or before February Is. You will
then need to follow the regular
spraying procedure for peaches as
laid down in any good spray calen-
dar. The procedure which we recon-
mend is as follows:
/. During the dormant season,
use lime sulphur solution diluted to
test As degrees Baume. When trees
are badly infested with scale, make
two applications, one in the fall and
another as late in spring as possible,
before growth begins. If one apph-
cation is made, make it in the spring.
2. AS soon as the shucks fall
about ten days after the petals drop
use self boiled 1ime-sulphur (S-S-5O).
To each so gallons of this add two
pounds arsenate of lead paste or one
pound of powder. This is an I'M
portant spraying to prevent wormy
fruit.
8. Two to three weeks later, re-
peat No. 2.
4. Use lf-boiled lime-sulphur
alone, four weeks before the fruit is
due to ripen. This spraying is very
important to prevent rot In SHIP
ment as well as on the trees. Never
use arsenate of lead with this APP
pIication.
CNote: Varieties earlier than the
Greensboro need but the first three
applications and in the third the ar
senate of lead need not be used,
Varieties later than the alberta
should have at least four appllca'
tions of self-boiled lime-sulphur).
S. Lice on peach trees can be con-
trolled bv the use of "Black Leaf
4O' or soap solution.
6. The peach trees should be
wormed in the fall and the borers
removed with a knife, care being
taken not to entirely girdle the tree.
The wounds made in looking Tor
borers may be painted with a white
lead and disinfectant paint.
No doubt these trees need to be
fortified to restore their vigor and
vitality. We suggest, therefore
that YOU apply five to six pounds per
tree with one hundred bearing trees
per acre of a formula containing 3
to per cent nitrogen, 10 pounds
phosphofic acid, and 5 per, cent
potash, Scatter this material in
ring around the roots of the trees
early in the spring and work 1t Wen
info the soil. You may grow a cover
crop between the trees this winter
There is nothing better for this pur,
pose than vetch or oats. A good
spring or summer cover crop would
be cowpeas, soybeans, or velvet
beans.