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with the various mixtures Lime-Sulphur, Bordeaux, Copper Suljjliat'C, 

 etc. were started, but the weather got the best of us and our test failed 

 us on account of lack of fruit. But on the Station grounds proper we 

 spraj'ed everything with Lime-Sulphur, and the results were very good. 



As you perhaps remember, I spoke of spraying with Lime-Sulphur, 

 winter strength, one to eleven, just before blossom, and some were in- 

 clined to take exception to what I said. We carried out the same pro- 

 gram this year. We used the Commercial Lime-Sulphur one to eleven, 

 and the home-made at the rate of 15 lbs. sulphur to 8 lbs. lime and .50 

 gals, water, and tried it on all the different fruits except the peach, and 

 at the same time we usually put on Bordeaux, just before blossom. The 

 results were that in some cases, for instance the pears and the plums 

 where the blossoms and buds were fully opened, once in a while the blos- 

 som stem would be burned and the blossom shrivel up. On the apples 

 I noticed no bad results at all. The last season was rather peculiar; in 

 the spring when we had our warm weather first and cold weather after- 

 ward, and there were a great many growers around South Haven whom 

 I advised to spray quite late with the Lime-Sulphur. None of thorn 

 reported bad results. I think we can arrange to spray our strong solu- 

 tion of Lime-Sulphur at such a time so that we will not have to spray 

 again until after the blossoms open. For the spray after the blossom 

 we use one to 50. This is weaker than many use. Some use down to 

 one to twenty-fiiv-e, but we got very good results with the strength we 

 used. We sprayed just after blossom petals dropped and then again in 

 ten days and then the last week in July, using the commercial article 

 one to fifty, and the home-made at five times the winter strength, or at 

 the rate of II/2 lbs. of lime to 3 lbs. of sulphur and 50 gals, of water, 

 and our results were very good all the way through. We had but little 

 scab on apples and the api>les were very much better colored than in 

 other years. I noticed in other places where I have visited various orch- 

 ards that the trees that had the Lime-Sulphur spraying had better colored 

 fruit than where the fruit was sprayed with the Bordeaux mixture. 

 The Lime-Sulphur does not seem to cover the fruit the way the Bor- 

 deaux does; that is, there is not so heavy a coating, and for that reason 

 the sun has a better chance to color the fruit. The College has an ex- 

 hibit of its fruit on the table back of us here which shows the difference 

 in the color of the fruit sprayed with Bordeaux and Lime-Sulphur. 



What brought the Lime-Sulphur as a summer spray to the attention of 

 the fruit growing world was the fact that there was so much russeting 

 when the fruit was sprayed with Bordeaux. Many have thought that 

 this Avas not a good season to demonstrate the real worth of Lime-Sul- 

 phur and make a comparison with the Bordeaux mixture because the 

 weather we have had has been the cause of a lot of fruit russeting. J^s- 

 ])ecially Baldwins and other varieties of this type, because of the bad 

 spring, have shown decided russeting. The russeting caused by the 

 weather is not as deep as that caused by Bordeaux. It is also generally 

 more scattered than that made by the Bordeaux. In all cases where 

 trees were sprayed by Bordeaux it was much worse than on trees not 

 si)rayed at all or sprayed by Lime-Sulphur. This shows the difference in 

 the amount of russeting done by the weather and by Bordeaux. I know 

 of many cases where fruit growers say themselves that they lost quite a 

 little money by not using Lime-Sulphur, which, by experience, it has 



