Show C C PREVENT WORMY APPLES BY SPRAY use arsenate of L ead after petals beahn to fall to ft a codling moth which Is a soft gray little butterfly like thing an apple tree has just one use and that Is as a convenience for raising some in more ore codling moths your rights in the matter as ow owner ner of the tree count for nothing with this pest it Is given up wholly to the idea that the world should be filled with codling moths and unless you get out your spray rig at the right time this mania will Il likely liely be carried far enough to ruin rilin your chances of nice sound apples for every codling moth that comes along about the time the blossoms fall will lay eggs on the tiny little apples that are just forming and f from rom these the well known apple worms are hatched they in turn to become other moths to lay more eggs to make more moths and so on until if a person step in and gum the game up lie he have an apple fit to eat you do this and save your ap apples pies by spraying with arsenate of lead just after the petals begin to fall before that poison the bees which tire lire among your best friends without doing any more good the arsenate of lead should be used at the rat oz 0 a pound and a quarter to fifty gallons of water get it all over the tree in a fine mist and dont wait any later than the fall of the petals for then the tiny apple ends close up with the worm inside safe from the poison there are other fruit troubles of of a fungous nature blights baights and rots which also begin to develop at this season to halt these you add lime sulphur to the arsenate of lead you ran can buy the prepared form and this Is handiest and just as cheap as making it especially for a small orchard it comes either in liquid or powder of the former add a gallon and a half to each fifty gallons of the spray mixture and of the latter add four pounds to the same amount |