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Show SPRAYING AN8 PRUNING. Mr. Sorenson, Inspector of Pests, Directs Di-rects Attention to Both as Urgent Requirements. i Editor Tribune: The fruit raisers of Salt Lake county have, no doubt, seen in your paper an account of the new method of preparing the winter wash, formerly called No. 7. As Inspector, I considered It necessary to make a test before recommending It or condemning it. I can say I have both made and used it, and find it a great auccess in the saving of time and material. If any one deslren to make it, and has any doubt as to how, if he will send word to me I will call and assist him, free of charge. Now is the time to commence pruning and winter spraying. We do not see any worms crawling around, or insects buzzing about as wo do in the summer time, and therefore some conclude there Is no uj in spraying. That Is where appearance deceives, and people make a great mistake. The Insects, though dormant, are still present with us In some form. They get the better of us In the summer because they can creep or fly away when we get after them either with the spray pump or powder gun. Now is our time to get even, as they have to sit ytlll nnd take their medicine, which, if properly applied, will do more effective work than at any other time of the year. For illustration. If you will lake a magnifying glass and examine around the cherry tree budy, or under a pear tree branch, thousands of eggs will be found, which, in the opening of spring j produce ravaging insects to destroy blossoms and fruit. You will also find the codling moth larva and pupa under the loooso bark of trees. Every such nest destroyed now will save your orchard from 500 to 1200 worms in the coming summer. The great efficacy of winter graving grav-ing consists in the fact that you not only destroy anv Insect vnn fnnr.ii !,, same as you do with the summer spray, but in winter the spray you can use is of such a nature that It destroys tho Insect eggs; whereas the summer spray cannot be made strong enough to destroy de-stroy the eggs. This makes a vast difference dif-ference between a summer and a winter spray, in favor of the latter. Besides the winter spraying also deslrovs the spori of fungi, thereby preventing mildew mil-dew and the premature decay of fruit. One objection to the winter spray has been the excessive time and labor consumed con-sumed In preparing it. This objection In now overcome by the new method of preparation. The winter spray prepared by this new method should be used by everybody having trees or bushes, as there is no spray to compare with It for general efficacy. Formula No. 5, which Is the old No. 7. LIME, SULPHUR AND SALT MIXTURE. MIX-TURE. The new way to make It is: "With a gallon and a half of boiling water make a paste of 15 pounds sulphur, then with 10 gallons boiling water slack 30 pounds of fresh lime in a strong barrel, otlr with a hoe a minute, now pour in your sulphur paste; cover quick with an old blanket and a tub up sldo down on the barrel; let it cook for 10 minutes; now stir, so lime don't burn, cover quickly, let stand 10 minutes; dissolve 11 pounds of coarse salt with 2 gallons boiling water; when dissolved put Into barrel, stir, lot stand 10 minutes; now nil barrel with hot water to make 45 gallons. Tills is tho best of all sprays as It kills everything, but It ran only be uped in winter when trefs are dormant, dor-mant, but there- Is no sprny to compare com-pare with it for efficiency. Respectfully JOHN P. SOR13NSEX. Inspector of Pests, Salt Lake county. Feb. 21, 1901. |