FRUIT GROWING FOR HOME USE IN THE GREAT PLAINS. 



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It is made by excavating the earth and mounding it up somewhat 

 about the edge or rim of the reservoir. The inside is then puddled 

 witli cLay or in some other way made sufficiently impervious to water 

 to prevent seepage. The water may be siphoned out for distribution. 



SPRAYING. 



On account of the dry atmosphere in the Great Plains region, fun- 

 gous diseases will probably not be serious, but the more common 

 insect pests may be expected to do more or less damage unless means 

 of control are applied. The insect problems, however, are doubtless 

 so similar to those of other regions that the methods of control that 

 are effective elsewhere will prove satisfactory here. 



Fig. 3.— An earth ■• lauk, " or reservoir, for irrigating small gardens and fruit plantations. 



Much information about spraying for fruit diseases and insects is con- 

 tained in publications of this Department. The more important ones 

 are as follows : 



Fanners' Bulletins. — Xo. 127, Important Insecticides; No. 243, Fungicides and 

 Their Use in Preventing Diseases of Fruits; No. 283, Spraying for Apple Diseases and 

 the Codling Moth in the Ozarks; No. 284, Insect and Ftmgous Enemies of the Grape 

 East of the Rocky Mountains. 



Circulars, Bureau of Entomology. — No. 20, The W00II3' Ajihis of the Apple; No. 2G, 

 The Pear Slug; No. 29, The Fruit Tree Bark P.eetle; No. 32, The Larger Apple-Tree 

 Borers; No.54,ThePeach-TreeBorer; No.73,ThePlumCurculio; No. 81, The Aphides 

 Affecting the Apple; No. 98, The Apple-Tree Tent Caterpillar; No. 101, The Apple 

 Maggot or Railroad Worm. 



Circular, Bureau of Plant Industry. — No. 27, Lime-Sulphur Mixtures for the Summer 

 Spraying of Orchards. 

 [Cir. 51 ] 



