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Show LATE WORK 1?J THE ORCHAP.D Thorouoh Spraying After Rot'en i Fruit and Other Refuse Is Cleaned Up la Recommended. iRy H. O. YV KAT11 KUSTONE.) After nil rotten apples, pruned limbs and other refuse have been cleaned up about the orchard, the trees should he yiveu a thorough t praying. If possible, one should choose n warm day for this opera! inn. so most of the insect pests, crawling eut to lie in the sunlight, will be exposed to the action cf the spraying solution. Special attention should be Ki.-n old knots, ro.ii;h and rotten s-pots about the trees, as in these places is where the fruit pests deposit their egs for next season's crop and at the same time many of these pe--is themselves are harborlns in tin so safe retreats till winter is over. There are several reasons for this fall spraying". It not only destros the insect pests, but their eggs also, which have been laid. After the spraying tho trees will be left healthy and clean and free from the pests while they are developing, develop-ing, their next season's fruit crop. Another lii;ht spraying next spring will not come amiss, but this fall spraying will insure the work being done not neglected next spring when the rush season is on and (he field turns the farmer's attention from the orchard. |
