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Show 1 FIGHTING THE I CONK 11 H Dr. E D. Ball, director of the Agri- f&Ma I cultural college experiment station at aW Logan, Utah, has Issued instructions sm j and suggestions to Utah horticultur- gfl j lata concerning spraying for codling 3M ; j moth In apple trees. Director Ball says that the first 9fl -spray should be .applied as soon as JCT 1 tn blossoms are off the trees, tak- 9B Ing two-thirds as many gallons of K apraj liquid as bushels of fruit are K expected to bo harvested. The see- In Dnd spraying should follow it In about H seven to ten days. The third spray J should be applied between three and four weeks after tho first. In orchards in which there were moro than 2 or 3 per cent of wormy apples last year, the trees should all be banded. Bands Bhould be put on w four weeks after tho blossoms fall and VflKiJ should bo removed every ton days jffrTA until August 20. Late sprayings aro 'jjr advised where more than 2 or 3 per fgS i cent of the applos becomo wormy be-nh be-nh ! fore July 25. Mr. Ball says that it II j . . is better to make a mistake In the right direction, and to put on moro sprays than are necessary than to put on too few. 00 |