Show SPRAYING SALT BALT LAKE march d with great pleasure your arti ion spraying and fruit culture in Y dight ft slid and wednesday W capere pa per pere fc trip ip to colorado lorado idaho or oregon convince anyone that there is 18 no DO industry so eo badly neglected as culture and to inspect the orchards near dear grand junction bor or walla walla with their mod of caring for trees and i come back to the neglected and in infested of utah i he to perfect soil boll aud and climate makes a e heart heartsick sick IBe delose loae ao an article from a recent tm 00 paper on i i be subject of spraying oh b I 1 bone may be of 0 service to you very truly youra your H M MCCARTNEY t the article referred erred to is as aa follows r the nea dioR how to spray boray mir does not tell us the abot of the paper to which the credit sitt to be girou ed NEWS J the fhe warm weather Is ia bringing out P buds upon the fruit tree so eo that yin leee to be in order about aboul i t earlier than usual this aeb timely the following lowina follo fol winz letter of aaion issued by mr john minte ry of the state board of or feb 22 the desk of oft board of horticulture honi culture is ia daily ins applications for instructions orchard management nearly all ol of 6 is III at this aelon how to clean praying abing to IB a recognized iv ID ug g the product of an orchard to be sad aad marketable the orchards twin rein the use uee of this means seems at v sick an necessity are ad ted city and suburban home lots aota old apple orchards which once io are was waa no a result of loog long Is bof of neglect breeding grounds grou ode of town trotton and decay eft athe the name of private comfort and re ire in home borne surroundings in the of public spirit and private owners of city fruit lots jots gubur ade aft mily family oro ore baroa bartia and old starved asyl ng apple orchards oro barde are urged ir have their trees sprayed as ibon s oon as IM e the MOOR eded d for a fruit spraying praying is six of blue vitriol and ten pounds ol of caf tee she vitriol to be thoroughly die in hot water the me lime to be made alho milk of lime thoroughly stirred amr strained attained so when the two wo ingrodi sexto I 1 sito are mixed in 45 gallons of water van be passed through a spray log ade T this his I 1 la athe the first spray botu tte are as lyuba the copper solution lution eo aest as aa sure eure death to insect life even arge aa a maggot half an inch long jit to to the d duat like apo rulea rules of the an fungus we call smut amur this arat spray should be applied throughout western oregon the vaud elond spray should be applied just juet we the fawer fl buda bad open made ol oi of lime and five pound of vitro to forty five gallons ol of E clr r the third treatment is not OP tuii ad ad until after the fruit has set hen to the last reamed ingredients r ounces of paris green ie becom to be added I 1 desire to say tu to the owners owner of old apple orchards many of whom were like myself pioneers ai aa fruit growers who helped to give oregon trio trie name of janu ot of big red apples applee 22 your holdings now dow represent about one fourth of the area in lowith in circles ot of 10 to 25 miles around the oldest cias and towns of toe the state yu you are not alone by tens 0 thousands in other states mates in now being annoyed aud and put to coat coal in keeping clean these insect and fungus infected properties pro arties it was once your pleasure anu au lust just pride to own neither are anere t efe now new pests even the idea ot of spraying to eneck aneck theae injuries to the then old orchards of new england originated as early as 1797 prom from pennsylvania aud new york that 60 50 years ago were teeming with unblemished fruits these pests peels have for many years been increasing injuries until now dow this board is favored by the ute use of 01 costly plants ff illustrative of the needs and effects of spraying from the state f pennsylvania and on my desk are bulletins numbered above from the horticultural div division iLIon of the experiment station of cruell jurdell Ju ruell aty new york from no 84 of which I 1 quote pages 26 25 and 26 the statement or H it brown browd of orleans county AB near dear as I 1 can get at it my orchard is about 30 80 years old it contains trees 0 arr brown proceeds to say bay he be has had the care of these trees since 1889 began then top dressing aud and followed loll owed it up getting no do apples the first two years barrels the ane third 75 barrels poor the fourth bushels used for drying the fifth increasing the ap 1 of macure be juthe to abe spring of 1894 we gave the orchard si a very severe pruning and jud began beg an spraying in this work we followed the direction of cornell bulletin no 60 we used bordeaux exclusively I 1 cannot give the exact elates dates of each spraying the first one was wae made early in may before the leaves started toe next one came just juet as the buds bude began to show ebow a little red color the third one was wag made alter the blos sumo had bad fallen and the fruit set bet part of the orchard was wae sprayed the fourth time the very last of J june u ne and I 1 could see a marked difference in favor of tour four sprayings spray ings the general result has been everything I 1 could ask we bar relea barrels tibia this year firsts and second ae conde I 1 sold bold apples for 2121 pet per barrel and our neighbors coula get only to 01 0 1 ili in Is ie selected for the brevity of its illustration of the value of spraying |