Show SELDOM SPRAY BUSH FRUITS raspberry and blackberry ces cane should be cut out and burned soon as fruit la off most of the diseases of raspberries rasp berries and blackberries cannot be satisfactorily controlled by spraying says EL A cardonell of the missouri college of agriculture plant only those varieties which are more resistant to disease such na as kansas black raspberry etc for missouri conditions cut out and burn all old canes as soon as the fruit Is ot off if caterpillars appear on leaves after plants are in foliage spray with arsenate ars arse ecate flate of lead at the rate of one pound of the powdered form to CO gallons of water it has baa not been found practical to spray currants and gooseberries goose berries for leaf spot if the imported currant worm appears spray or dust dost with paris green and lime use bel hellebore leboro or pyrethrum one ounce to two gallons of water after fruit Is half grown it if mildew a grayish powdery fungus appears apply potassium sulphide liver of sulphur at the ra rate te of one ounce to two or three gallons of water vater if plant lice aphids appear uhe nicotine sulphate sulp bate before they curl the leaves plowing under dead leaves or burning them will aid greatly in the control of leaf spot |