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Show 10 SAVE THE FRUIT CROP Spraying at the Proper Time in the Right Way Productive of Good Results. Trofessnr Ball of Utah and other workers on the Pacific coast have revolutionized revo-lutionized spraying for the ro'lllni? moth where this Insect alone Is to t: combated They find -y oc or t' most two sprayings. Judiciously tit and properly applied, almost the ermre fruit crop can be saved. Call's method Is based primarily mi two important facts. He claims thai wherever upon the apple the eggs (,f the first brood arc laid a great majority ma-jority of the young worms coming therefrom crawl to the calyx and enter there; secondly, that Immediately after the petals fall there are two cavities at the calyx end, the stamen "burs" roofing the lower of (he two cavities. The young larva enters the apple by eating through the lloor of the lower cavity. P.all s Idea was to get the poison poi-son lodged In sufficient e.uantlty in the lower cavity, where It would do some good. To accomplish this hc sprayed from above, while the apple wore still erect, as shown in the illi tratlon. But for a few days after Xh petals fall these stamen "bars" are tightly pressed together as to make i very difficult for the liquid to penetrat to the lower cavity. By waiting week or te-n days, even though II calyx lobes are closing at that thn these bars have shrunk, enabling careful workman to place a big d of poison In the lower chamber, vvhr it is needed. The nozzle should I held above the apples, and nuide t give, not a mist, but a forcible and su stantial spray, directly down upon t1 fruit. Later than this, however, spra Ing with these principles In view won be of little avail because the cal loheg are almost completely cIom Kill's work shows that enough pns' is retained from two early sprayin to kill an average of 90 per cent of t; worms of the first brood and 71 j cent of the seconel brood. To acrm pllsh good results the spray must a forceful one used abundantly a from above the fruit. |