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 HOW TO USE ARSENICAL POISONS ON ARPLE TREES. 



Editor Rural World: 



I have had to answer so many inquiries as to the solution of arsenic 

 to spray apples trees, that I want to use a small space in your paper to 

 tell all fruit-growers that it is easy to make a solution of the white ar- 

 senic. Don't use more than two and one-half ounces to lOO gallons 

 water, and one-half a can of Lewis' lye is sufficient to make a per'"ect 

 solution. Better dissolve the lye in a small tub of water, then add the 

 arsenic and stir it for a few minutes and it will dissolve perfectly. This 

 is reliable and will not burn the foliage. Be very careful that you have 

 no trash in the water as it will clog the valve of the pump. Spray during 

 a calm, for if there is much wind it will be impossible to reach all parts 

 of the tree, and it would be better to do it during clear weather, for 

 should it rain immediately after spraying, it would wash all the poison off. 

 Be sure and put the poison label (skull and cross bones) on your barrel, 

 and put your arsenic where there will be no danger to your family. Re- 

 member while you are handling it, you are handling a deadly poison, 

 and with this be 'ore your eyes there should be no danger of mistakes. 



A. GOSLIN. 

 Holt County, Mo. 



I give the following recipe to keep rabbits, borers, sheep and mice 

 from killing trees : Four pounds of sulphur, peck of lime slacked with 

 hot water, old soap-suds, and tobacco, (boiled). While hot add one 

 gallon gas-tar and one-half gallon of crude carbolic acid. Stir well. 

 For summer wash, leave gas-tar out and add in place of it one gallon of 

 soft soap, and for old trees with rough bark on. use the water or soap- 

 suds to slack the lime with Make the wash the thickness you would 

 to wash house or fencing. To keep rabbits from girdling, wash in late 

 fall or about the time of frost, and as high as rabbits can reach. For 



