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Show Koriiculiora! FEW USES OF LIME-SULPHUR In Order to Make This Spray Most Effective Ef-fective It Is Necessary to Know How to Apply It. (By W. H. WICKS. Horticulturist, Idaho Experiment Station.) Most all of our orchardists realize the value of lime-sulphur as a spray. In order to make this spray the most effective it is necessary to know how, when and for what trouble to apply it. The list of pests to combat with winter win-ter strength lime-sulphur, just as the leaves are falling from the trees in the fall are as follows: Apple canker, aphis eggs, moss and lichens, pear leaf blister mite, rabbits, and field fice, red spider eggs, ten caterpillar cat-erpillar eggs, woolly aphis. Some orchardists have found it has been entirely satisfactory to spray foi these pest."! in the spring before the buds opei with winter strength of lime-sulphur. Conditions govern the time of application. The following list of nests may be successfully combated by applying lime-sulphur, winter strength, In the spring, while the buds are swelling: Bud moth, eggs of apple aphis, eggs of red spider, green peach aphis, grape rot and anthracnose, mildews (apple and rose), moss and lichens, oyster shell scale, peach leaf curl, peach moth, pear leaf blister mite, rabbits and mice, San Jose scale, scurfy scale, twig borer, woolly aphis. . All spraying should be systematically systematical-ly and thoroughly done. Test both the commercial and home-made line- A Good Spray Wagon for Use Between Be-tween Grape Vines. sulphur with the hydrometer beiu. using to secure the correct strength. The plant must be completely covered with the winter strength lime-sulphur in order to insure satisfactory results. Get every portion from the ground to tip of twigs by spraying from the top downward. Get the spray into the bud scales and crevices. |