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Show PW IS THE TIME TO SPRAY THE FRUIT TREES C. E. Pettigrow, county crop pest inspector, makes an announcement that now is the time for horticulturists horticultur-ists to get ready to spray for tho insects in-sects and pests which attack the fruit lator in the season. The sulphur and lime treatment, he said, Is the most efficacious and all fruit raisers should thoroughly familiarize themselves with it Spraying with a perfect quality of lino and sulphur solution and spraying thoroughly gives definite results in controlling San Jose scale, controlling mildew, red spider and twig borer, controlling all fungus spores that are on tho trees, and its fungicidal effects, remaining for many weeks, cover a -wider range of insect and fungus troubles trou-bles than any othor one spray. "It has been said," says Mr. Petti-grew, Petti-grew, county horticultural inspector, "that San Jose scale is a blessing ln disguiso because it forced tho people . to begin doing lime and sulphur spraying and the many benefits ro-sulting ro-sulting from such spraying has resulted result-ed in more profitable fruit growing." oo |