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Show WOID CODLING MOTH INJURY Many Owners of Fruit Trees Do N-' Realize Importance of Spraying Work Not Complex. (By C. O. WOODBURY.) After years of the most forcible ob ect lessons in the way of regular yields and good profits from sprayed ; orchards and irregular yields and no j profits from unsprayed orchards, the fact still remains that many owners ol , fruit trees do not yet realize the im 1 portance of the subject. It cannot be doubted, on the other band, that many possessors of orchards realiz i something of the importance of spray- I ng, pruning and . other methods of j orchard hygiene, and yet fail to be ?in this work because they regard it is complex, hard to understand, difficult diffi-cult to accomplish, disagreeable and expensive. The work is not complei and, considering the results which fol low it, is very inexpensive. Spraying pays. Every owner of fruit treef should plan to give them some atten lion in the way of spraying. This it essential to the continued productioi of rood fruit In order to obtain results, however It is necessary for the fruit grower tc Codling Moth Larva Beside Cocoon ir Which Winter l Passed. . spray intelligently. He must know what he is spraying for; he rr.-jst know something of the hfe history ot disease in question, so that he car prepare his material and time its ap plication most effectively. For instance. every crchardis should know that it is the larva ct young of the cod'.ing moth that is re sponsible for our wormy apples ar.i act accordingly. The treatment i tc ' spray with an arsenical poison, pari: green or arsenate of lead, irr.med.ate ly after the petals fail, using thr. rounds of arsenate cf lead to 50 gal Ions of bordeaux mixture or of watet If raris green is used it should b a. the rate of from six to eight our.ee; i to each fifty gallons of sprav Ti graying should be repeated in atx"'- ' ten days WWe the s.-oor.d brood o! codling moth causes damace. a far ther spraying should be given. In la:l tudes similar to northern I-.d a-a i- ' the latter part of July; in u'ihe-Indiana, u'ihe-Indiana, about two weeks ea-her TN first codling moth fr-ravi-c g'vea i- ' after the petals fall, should be' a-thorough a-thorough as It can poss:!!v be n-.-u'e Some of the poison should be g-i-te-into the calyx throat cf evcrv bioorr' I on the tree. ' |