Show abad dam EARLY SPRAY CATCHES WORM lime and sulphur should be used on fruit trees whilo while they are in dormant state As spraying Is a preventive the sprayer should always be forehanded fruit trees should be sprayed with wilh lime limo and sulphur for san jose scale while the trees are dormant and the mixture may be bought nil pre prepared pared barly inthe N gasoline power pump spraying outfit spring before the buds start the apple cherry quince and pear trees should be sprayed for scab coddling moth bud moth cankerworm tent cat ter pillar and aphis the moths canker worms and caterpillars are chewing insects and are destroyed by covering the leaves with poison so use a copper sulphate solution if the aphis appear in great numbers spray the leaves with kerosene emulsion A A sharp lookout must be kept for borers these little pests cannot be sprayed but must be dug out with a knife or pointed wire moreover if left to their own devices they will destroy the trees in a comparatively ively short hort time dush fruits and vines also have their enemies and must be spray t td ed the gooseberry 1 is 9 attacked by mildew leaf blight and worms and should be sprayed carefully especially under the leaves where the eggs of the currant worm are laid an excellent spray Is made by using bordeaux mixture in the proportion of one gallon of bordeaux to 50 gallons of nater mater to which Is added half it a pound ot of parts paris green to gallons of the bordeaux Bordua ux mixture and this can also be hwd on currants raspberry and blach blackberry berry bushes should be gone over and all ail the misshapen diseased and galla gall A d canes cut out then spray with copper sulphate solution the grapevine grap grape evina vinal should be pruned early and sprayed with copper sulphate solution for mildow mildew and leaf blight and for worms add parts paris green as given above |