Show horticultural horticulture c u facts 1 c 00 SPRAYING QUITE IMPORTANT not the tha only essential however for good fruit prune cultivate and fertilize spraying Is alj if most important tingle single operation in ih orchard liard management iiii sacs W V S perrine a big illinois in the prairie farmer because Ilc cause it Is so important some or chardis ts lime thought it tile only tiling thing essential to produce good ruil fruit und and they hale hae spruced their firms well but neglected pruning cult huting and fertilizing this practice has generally resulted in failure or in only partial success ruc cess spraying la Is the most expensive orchard 4 ope operation rution the materials tor pray mixtures are expensive and the cost of equipment and labor Is great the cost of materials can be lessened somewhat by spraying each variety according to its individual need wor lor instance yellow transparent tree need much less spraying than duchess aruca es grimes golden and jonathan need fewer sprays and cheaper mixtures than hen ben davis the for labor can be cut just about in half by the use of 0 proper and all management for ex ei ample two spay sp ay rigs and the right ind of a supply tank wagon will pray just about twice as much or hard as two mio rigs alone or to put it another aay ay two spray rigs with a rood supply tank rig will spray about ur or quite as much as four rigs without file fhe supply tank proper equipment enables the grower to get gel his big sp spraying rayln done on ti time me or mare more nearly so it Is necessary to lane line tile the spraying on the trees when the eggs of insects hatch and the small insects begin to eat cat and also vucu N hen the fungous spores are being produced A common mistake is to spray too late instead of too early spraying praying should be doie thoroughly however the trees to do not need to be drenched summer applications should cease just before the drenching point expert sp using angle nozzles small hole caps nod high pressure can do a thorough lob job and stop spraying long before the drenching pont lount Is reached rea lied this Is the dent deal which the average gr has not been able to attain because lie he has not the expert help for several years we nave been doing as much of our scale spraying as ag it aw it demonstration in proper spraying we are able to do in the tha fall what remains can call easily tie be done cone in tile the aaring when after the growth starts start but not so late as to cause injury I 1 to the foliage we ue spray again some of 0 the varieties and sections of tile the orchard that are most sus susceptible ep tible to t cab ceab and blotch if our fruit is more or le less leis is in fectea infect eil alah ith seal scab or blotch one season beai on we are not discouraged but simply go after the spraying stronger the next sea season coll with a determination to get gel the sprays on n earlier and more thoroughly comparatively ively lely clean cle an fruit cun can be produced even on old badly infected ore lards |