1604 Report of Faumeks' Institutes 



CUT WORM 



The cut worm has been successfully controlled with poisoned 

 bait. This is prepared as follows: One pound of paris green, 25 

 pounds bran or bran and middlings mixed, moistened with a mix- 

 ture of one quart of cheap molasses to each gallon of water needed. 

 This should be distributed under snuill pieces of boards or lightly 

 covered with soil, near the plants likely to be injured with the 

 worms. It should not be placed where chickens may get it as it 

 will kill them. In one instance fully ninety per cent, of a cabbage 

 crop was saved in rows treated as above. 



SPRAYS 



We recommend the lime-sulphur solution for control of San 

 Jose scale, leaf blister-mite and for summer spraying of apple 

 orchards. The schedule of spraying for apple orchards is outlined 

 in Leaflet '"' U " of the Geneva Station. Arsenate of lead is the 

 poison that we advise. 



Where steam cooking outfits for lime-sulphur are at hand it has 

 been found very easy to manufacture kerosene emulsion in large 

 quantities. Kerosene emulsion spreads better than the tobacco 

 preparations, 



DRY SOLUBLE SULPHUR 



We have analyzed several samples of this and wc find that the 



material contains sulphur 56 per cent, and sodium 42 per cent. It 



is then not a lime-sulphur solution Init a sodium-sulphur compound. 



For the treatment of orchards we still recommend the lime-sulphur 



preparation. 



PLANT DISEASES 



COLLAR ROT OF APPLE TREES 



This disease occurs on almost any kind of ground and in the 

 majority of cases is due to winter injury. Things which induce it 

 are rapid growth, especially if the trees go into the winter with un- 

 ripened wood ; exposure dne to locations ; swaying of trees. It 

 occurs not only at the base l)ut on the trunk and in the crotches. 



Extra rapid growth should be avoided and end(^avor made to 

 ripen the wood as much as possible in the fall. One of the most im- 

 portant things is to detect the first indications of the disease and 

 treat them. Two inspections should bo made of the orchard each 

 year — the first early in the spring, about the first of May ; the 



