tion ; you must touch every scale if you want to kill it. Spray with the 

 wind, the top of the trees first, and the under side of the branches last. 

 I have less scale to-day than eight years ago, and would not be afraid to 

 set more trees if I wanted them. Success is a matter of thoroughness 

 all the way through. " 



Mr. T. Greiner, La Salle, N.Y., reporting to the New York Tribune- 

 Farmer the meeting of the Western New York Horticultural Society, 

 held at Rochester, January 24, 25, 26, 1907, states in part as follows : 



"The San Jose Scale, of course, came in again for the lion's share 

 of attention, discussion, and especially denunciation. There can hardly 

 be any doubt that a large proportion of the eight hundred who had come 

 to the Rochester meeting had been brought to the point of attending such 

 a meeting merely because they were scared into it by the scale. . . . 

 The outlook for orchardists whose orchards are invaded by the scale, 

 and who fail to wage an incessant warfare against the pest, is, according 

 to Willard Hopkins, about as follows : First year, scare ; second year, 

 barrel stock ; third year, evaporator ; fourth year, cider mill ; fifth year, 

 wood pile or saw mill. Mr. Hopkins also told of his complete success 

 in controlling (not exterminating) the scale by thorough spraying. He 

 has used both lime-sulphur washes and crude petroleum. He said that 

 one cannot put on enough lime-sulphur to do injury to the tree, but the 

 stuff is terribly corrosive to the skin. He uses heavy blankets or oilcloth, 

 covering the horses entirely over. . . . George T. Powell indorses Mr. 

 Hopkins's predictions, and says that 90 per cent, of the orchards on 

 Long Island are infested by scale, and 75 per cent, have become per- 

 fectly useless. By spraying with scalecide, one to twenty, but very 

 thoroughly, he has brought the scale under control, but is in favor of a 

 stronger solution. He has saved (by the former strength) a lot of 

 Prunus Pissardi, Pyrus Japonica, etc. The time for applying scalecide 

 is in autumn after the foliage is off, and again in February or March, it 

 being advisable to make two applications to do best and most thorough 

 work." 



Professor P. J. Parrott, before the Ontario Fruit Growers' Associa- 

 tion, November 7, 1906, spoke as follows : "The San Jose Scale is rap- 

 idly spreading into our leading fruit-growing sections of New York. In 

 those communities where it is well established, annual spraying for the 

 scale is practised by the more progressive fruit growers. The orchard- 

 ists experienced in this work are fighting the scale efficiently and profit- 

 ably upon peaches, plums, pears, and apples of moderate size. The 

 spraying mixture which gives the most satisfactory results on scale is 

 the boiled lime-sulphur wash. This is used by the larger number of our 

 fruit growers, although some are using the proprietary miscible oils or 

 mineral oils, either clear or emulsified." 



"Sulphur washes are cheap, safe and reliable sprays for the treat- 

 ment of peaches, plums, pears, and apple trees of moderate size, and is 

 specially recommended for the treatment of peaches for joint control of 



