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Show Spraying a. Necessity. At the last regular meeting of the Sonoma Count' Horticultural Society, J. H. Hornbeck read a paper on spraying spray-ing fruit ti'ees in which he emphasized the importance of spraying immediately after the bloom is oil. In tho Sonoma Democrat he is reported as follows : . The gentleman explained that the codlin moth which is the somce of much trouble and loss to Iruit groweis, doc3 not lay its" eggs on the blossom end of the fruit, but the eggs are laid on the side or anywhere and that the little worm soon finds its way to the blossom and eats its way into the core, lie said that the calyx of the apple soon doses over the nd and then it is impossible to get tho "spray" where, it ought to go to reach the first brood. The gentleman said that orchardists made a mistake in not spraying often enough, many of them waiting to see er rtain signs before, starting to work. He described the cod lin moth larva as a flat and transparent worm, almost invisible to the naked eye. Mr. Hornbeck gave his estimate, in detail, of the cost of 6praying 3H' trees last year, whiih cost him a total of $20' or, about six cents apiece. The gentleman gentle-man advised spraying every month during dur-ing the dryseason. |
