Show SERIOUS PEST IN ORCHARD ORCHA R D combined wither with Br brown wn rot does immense b damage abage amage I 1 I 1 an i inked and brownrout brown rot a fungous disease make a combination that th atla ls for tremendous losses year fir crops of peaches plums anit cherries brown rot often enters one of these fruits through a puncture made by a curcillo cur cullo it Js important therefore to kill hill the insect if the disease Is 13 to be controlled announces arthur 3 i parley farley edtl extension eatlo of the new jersey agricultural experiment station r furthermore ur thermo re he p 60 i 6 ut 1 curcillo cur cullo causes many mahy of the young fruits to become wormy arid and fall to the ground before e they are ara mature in order to control the insect growers I 1 should spray peaches as soon as the husks split enough to expose the small fruits cherries and i should be sprayed when the lie petals cfall fall arid and again when the fruits develop op to the size of a small green pea in order to control brown rot growers should follow these applications with othe others rs the material recommended by the experiment station for he ie control of this destructive combination of insect i and disease Is new jersey dry mix alix twelve and one holf half pounds and pow lead arsenate one pound to fifty gallo gallon W f water the amount of lead arsenate may mas be increased to bone one and one half balf for plums land and cherries but should nut not bt increased on peaches if it Is also recommended that four pounds of high calcium lime he be added to every twelve and one half pounds of dry mix used on peaches in combination with lead arsenate |