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Show AFTER THE PRUNING IS DONE Carefully Gather Up and Burn All Branches and Twigs Cover Wounds to Prevent Decay. It is best, nfter the pruning operations opera-tions are over, to : 1. Gather up and remove from the orchard all branches and twigs that have been cut off. Burn them. They afford homes for the diseases and the insects that will attack your trees If the rubbish is left on the ground. 2. Cover the wounds with a coat of good lead paint. This helps to keep out the water and prevent disease and decay. 3. Spray the trees with a solution of one gallon commercial lime-sulphur to nine gallons of water. Spraying Just nfter pruning reduces the cost of applying ap-plying the material, as there Is less brush to cover than at other times. Moreover, it is just the right season for the lime-sulphur spray. |