!)7() ANNUAL REPORT OF TIIE OIL Doc. 



CHEWING INSECTS: 



1. Paris green or Arsenate of Lead when discovered. 2. Repeat 

 as may be needed. 



FUNGOUS DISEASES: 



1. Bordeaux mixture when leaves open. 2. Repeat every two 

 weelis if needed. 



Oats. 



LOOSE SMUT: 



Soak the seed five to ten minutes in hot water at 133 degrees F. 

 This may be done some time before planting, if desired, and has- 

 ten sprouting besides destroying the Smut. 



RUST: 



No good treatment known. 



MAGGOT: 



1. Put the onion bed some distance from the one of the preceding 

 year. 2. Same treatment as for the cabbage root maggot. 



MILDEW: 



1. Burn all the tops in the fall. 2. Rotation of crops. 



SMUT: 



1. Burn all refuse in the fall. 2. Start the onions on laud not 

 used for onions the preceding year and transplant — a process 

 which pays for other reasons also. 



Peach, Apricot, Nectarine. 



PEACH BORER: 



1. Wrapping trunk as described for Apple Tree Borer. 2. Mound- 

 ing up earth a foot or more about June 1st, and removing about 

 September 1st. 3. Wash trunk and lower parts of limbs with 

 whitewash and a little glue, with a tablespoonful of Paris green 

 to each bucketful. One, 2 and 3 are alternate methods treat- 

 ment. See Report of Department for 1898. 



BLACK PEACH APHIS: 



1. Dig refuse tobacco powder or stems, or Kainit into the ground 

 about the roots. 2. Spray with Kerosene Emulsion when the 

 Aphis appears above the ground. 



CURCULIO: 



See under 'Tlum." 



SAN JOSE SCALE: 



1. Keep trunk and limbs cnvered with whitewash from June 1st, 

 I ill frost appears. 2. Spray with Whale Oil Soap, 1 lb. to 1 gal- 



