46 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



lime. We use Scott's formula. For peaches, 8-8-50; for ap- 

 ples, 10-10-50. 



Ques. How do you mix that? 



Ans. For the self-boiled lime and sulphur, we simply put 

 ten pounds of stone lime into a barrel and sift in ten pounds of 

 sulphur and cook that sulphur by the heat of the lime, — let it 

 cook there until it forms a sort of orange precipitate, then we 

 drench it with cold water so as not to let the cooking go too 

 far, otherwise there is a little danger that you might burn the 

 foliage with it. A person easily gets experience and knows just 

 the color of the orange precipitate at which it should be cooled. 



Ques. How much water do you use in the first cooking? 



Ans. Just enough to slake the lime in good shape, — a very 

 thin whitewash. 



Ques. Do you cover it? 



Ans. Yes. just to get the heat out and not let it burn. 



