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BETTER FRUIT 



March 



What Kind dF Sprayer DoYouNeed? 



MYERS 



Exactly Suited To Your^ 



You can't afford to take a chance with an unknown 

 cheap spray pump, and perhaps ruin your crops or not get 



results. Have the foresight to choose a MYERS — the very best you can buy — 

 pioneers in the spraying field.and backed by 45 years of pump building experience. 



Write us for the new MYERS 1917 Spray Catalog — It's just oS the press and the bist and 

 most complete edition we have ever published. Then make your selection 'rom the Myers Line 

 — You will find a guaranteed Myers Spray Pump exactly suited to your job. Bucket and Bar- 

 rel, Small and Medium Capacity, Easy Operating Patented Cog Gear Hand Pumps and 

 Outfits, or Large Capacity Tank and Power Rigs with Automatic Pressure Control, 

 and many other practical features found only on the Myers; also Nozzles, Hose and Access- 

 ories for all kinds for Spraying, Painting and Disinfecting. 



NOW IS THE TIME— Ask for Catalog No. SP17— This is the one we want you to have 

 for it gives much valuable intorrnation, formulae, etc., and many fine illustrations of plant and 

 tree enemies, which will assist you in your spraying. 



MYERS LARGE MYERS AUTOMATIC POWER SPRAY RIG 



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ASHLAND PUMP t HAY TOOL WORKS 



iron sulphide mixture is made as fol- 

 lows: Take 10 pounds or iron sulphate 

 (copperas), suspend it in a sack well 

 toward the top of a 50-gallon barrel 

 which contains about 40 gallons of 

 water and allow it to dissolve. As soon 

 as the copperas becomes dissolved, add 

 about 3 gallons of lime-sulphur solu- 

 tion. A black precipitate immediately 

 forms. The solution should be allowed 

 to settle for two to six hours. In order 

 to determine whether all of the sul- 

 phide has been precipitated, place a 

 little of the clear liquid from the top of 

 the barrel in a tumbler and add a few 

 drops of lime-sulphur concentrate. If 

 a black residue forms by adding the 

 lime-sulphur, then add about one-half 

 gallon more lime-sulphur concentrate 

 to the barrel and stir again. After it 

 settles, test again, and add more lime- 

 sulphur to the barrel if a precipitate 

 is formed when lime-sulphur is added 

 to the clear liquid. If no further pre- 

 cipitation occurs upon addition of the 

 lime-sulphur, drain this top liquid off 

 by siphoning down to the black muck. 

 The clear liquid is of no use and 

 .should be thrown away. Fill the bar- 

 lel containing the black muck and 



allow it to settle. Again drain off the 

 clear liquid, fill the barrel full of water 

 and stir. This is now ready for use. 

 Ten gallons of this black liquid will 

 make 100 gallons of diluted spray. In 

 view of the fact that the sulphide 

 settles very rapidly, always stir up the 

 materials in the barrel before dipping 

 out the material to make the diluted 

 spray. 



Anthracnose. — The handling of the 

 large crop of apples during this past 

 year, combined with the early rain, 

 prevented the greater majority of or- 

 cahrdists from applying the anthrac- 

 nose spray during the fall of 1916. This 

 disease will therefore probably be 

 prevalent in the Hood River Valley 

 during the coming year. No orchard 

 in which bordeaux mixture was omit- 

 ted in 1916 should go unsprayed this 

 fall, for the results may become very 

 serious. 



Quite often, as was the case this year, 

 it is practically impossible to get the 

 spray on the trees after the harvest, 

 owing to the occurrence of early rains. 

 For this reason bordeaux 3-4-50 should 

 be added to the last codling-moth 

 spray, the date of application depend- 



ing upon the development of the in- 

 sects. This should usually be made 

 between August 10 and 25. Experi- 

 mental work carried on during the past 

 two years has demonstrated that this 

 material can be used at this time with 

 safety to the apples. If applied thor- 

 oughly, it is of great value in prevent- 

 ing early anthracnose infection, which 

 may result from rains occurring before 

 the fruit' is picked. Under ordinary 

 conditions this spray will keep the dis- 

 ease well in hand in orchards compara- 

 tively free from the trouble. Seriously 

 infected orchards, however, should not 

 only receive this summer application, 

 but the regular fall bordeaux mixture 

 6-6-50, which should be applied as soon 

 as the fruit is picked. 



Pear Fire Blight. — The outbreak of 

 flre blight which occurred in several 

 sections of the valley last year should 

 serve as a very distinct warning to all 

 orchardists that they be on the alert 

 for a return of this disease in the 

 future. 



The value of maintaining a careful 

 watch for this most serious trouble can- 

 not be over-emphasized. Unless or- 

 chardists take more interest in the 

 future than they have shown in the 

 past, the disease will cause more 

 trouble than all of the rest of the in- 

 sect pests and plant diseases that 

 demand attention at the present time. 

 This disease is caused by a bacterium 

 which attacks all parts of the tree — 

 blossoms (known as blossom blight), 

 twig blight (that of killing and black- 

 ening of vigorously growing terminals), 

 and body blight. The disease in the 

 latter form attacks the limbs and 

 trunks, forming large cankers, and ulti- 

 mately girdling and killing the tree. 



All suspected cases of blight should 

 be reported to the county fruit in- 

 spector before control is attempted. 



The Spraylhat Sticks 



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Adheso 



f^o ul Pat oh- 



Insecticide, Tonic 

 Fungicide 



"ADHESO" HAS PROVED UP IN 

 THE WEST 



G. I. Aiken. Placerville. Ca].. writee: 



■"I have Wlnesap trees that for tiie la* 

 ten .years have l*en so Scabby that I w«a 

 thUikliiK serioii.'ily of digRlng them out. 

 However. I decided to try once more, tiila 

 lime usluK your "ADHESO," and the re- 

 sult was that I had over 99% clean fruit." 



Mr. Aiken haa re-ordered. 



The Wonderful Apple Crop of W. 0. 

 Shoupe, uTltten about In the November 16 

 issue of "The Fruit Grower," was sprayed 

 with 1800 lbs. of "ADHESO." Mr. Shoupe 

 has ordered 1800 Ibe. for 1917 for hit 

 Sandoval. III., orohiird. The Lamest Ap- 

 ple Crop Ever Grown by a Single Grower 

 was sprayed with our "Triangle" Brand 

 Arsenate of Lead. John W. Miller, Mar- 

 tlnsburK W. Va.. zrew this year 46,000 

 barrels, valued at $150.0(>n. All Sprayed 

 with Our Sprays. Mr. Miller has placed 

 hlfl entire order with us for 1917. 



Ansbacher A Insecticide Co-i... 



527 Fifth Avenus. NEW YORK 



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