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or pears. The arsenite of lime is preferably used with bor- 

 deaux mixture, and, as the season advances and foliage ma- 

 tures, increase the arsenite solution gradually from one and 

 one half pints to one quart to the fifty gallons of bordeaux 

 mixture. 



FOR TINGIS, CATERPILLARS, AND SLUGS. 



Spray as they hatch and appear on the leaves. 



TOBACCO WASH. 



Used for green aphis and tingis as they appear on the trees. 



HOW PREPARED. 



Ingredients — Tobacco (sheep dip, sulj^hured tobacco), 



four pounds. 

 Whale-oil soap (or good strong soap) , 



four pounds. 

 Water, twenty gallons. 



Directions — Soak the tobacco in hot water for several hours ; 

 dissolve the soap in hot water ; strain both ingredients ; add 

 together and dilute to twenty gallons. On varieties of trees 

 where the foliage is very tender, tests should be made before 

 applying extensively. 



KEROSENE EMULSION. 



Used for woolly aphis and clover mite. 



FOR WOOLLY APHIS. 



Spray with kerosene emulsion diluted seven (7) times. 



FOR CLOVER MITE. 



Spray with kerosene emulsion diluted eight (8) times. 



HOW PREPARED— KEROSENE EMULSION (GOVERNMENT FORMULA). 



Ingredients — Kerosene, two gallons. 

 Water, one gallon. 

 Hard soap, one half pound. 



Directions — Make a suds of the soap and water and pour 

 boiling hot into the kerosene ; churn with a force pump or a 

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