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killing out the decaying fungi. This is 

 a practice that is being used in parts of 

 California. The Bordeaux paste, how- 

 ever, as recommended by the Plant 

 Pathology Department of this institu- 

 tion, is very good and made as follows: 



Bluestone Solution. — Dissolve IV2 

 pounds of bluestone (copper sulphate 

 or blue vitriol) in 1 gallon of water in 

 a wooden, earthenware or glass vessel. 

 This is best done by suspending the 

 chemical in a bag of loosely-woven 

 cloth or burlap, at the top of the water, 

 or by pounding the lumps into small 

 bits and dissolving by use of hot water. 

 This solution attacks metals actively. 



Lime Paste. — Slake 3 pounds of quick 

 lime with 1 gallon of water, in the ordi- 

 nary manner. 



Mix in Equal Parts. — When the lime 

 is cool enough, equal parts of the blue- 

 stone solution and the lime paste should 

 be mixed together thoroughly. Mix 

 only enough at one time for a day's use. 

 Apply like whitewash with a brush. 

 The stock bluestone solution and stock 

 supply of slaked lime can be kept in- 

 definitely if not mixed together, pro- 

 vided water is added occasionally to 

 keep solutions up to the original volume. 



Apply this paste to all wounds and 

 strive in every way to keep decay from 

 entering the trees. Many a prune tree 

 which looks all right from the outside 

 has really only a few years left owing 

 to the fact that the decays have riddled 

 the wood of trunk and branch, and in 

 a strong wind, some day, such a tree 

 will be sacrificed. 



Pruning of Cane Fruits 



The pruning of bush fruits is very 

 frequently misunderstood. In the early 

 days of growing raspberries and black- 

 berries in the Puyallup Valley the grow- 

 ers adopted the policy of planting the 

 berries in hills five feet apart, and 

 to prune the new canes at the top 

 when they reached a height of about 

 four feet, but in later years they 

 learned the advisability of not pruning 

 the top of the cane at any time of the 

 growing season, and to permit it to 

 grow just as tall as possible, and to 

 plant the canes in the row system about 

 three feet apart in the row. 



During the winter months, after the 

 leaves have fallen off, side arms are 

 trimmed off. This leaves a long whip- 

 shaped cane. This cane is taken care 

 of, cither on a wire or permitted to lay 

 over a hop pole, with the result that it 

 gives a much heavier crop and a much 

 longer crop-producing season, as the 

 first berry ripening will be up on the 

 very top of this long cane, and the 

 berries will continue to ripen from the 

 top bud to the bottom bud, the later 

 crop coming on on the lower buds. 



The grower who cuts off the top of 

 his bush berries is cutting away at 

 least 2,") per cent of the crop, and in 

 addition to this he is arranging so his 

 crop will all mature at one time, or 

 nearly so, instead of having a six weeks* 

 ripening season, as he will have with 

 canes on which the tops are not cut, 

 as against a three weeks' ripening sea- 

 son on the canes that are cut back. — 

 W. H. Paulhamus, Puyallup, Wash. 



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 plowed or soft ground-- 

 also in plowing the low 

 soft spots and hill- 

 sides mast be consid- 

 ered . 



Then in orchard work 

 another requirement en- 

 ters — making short 

 turns--working close to trees and 

 under low limbs. 

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