REMEDIES. 381 



" The mixture is as follows : In a fifty gallon barrel put 

 thirty pounds of whale oil soap and fifteen pounds sulj^hur, 

 and mix it up thoroughly. Then add water until the barrel is 

 nearly full, and allow it to remain one day without anything 

 else being done to it, except stirring it two or three times. 

 The object of this is to allow the ingredients to be completely 

 blended together, so as to form one homogeneous mixture. 

 The next day take three pailfuls of this mixture and six of 

 water, or in that proportion, until a barrel is filled containing 

 forty or forty-five gallons. Then just previous to using add 

 three quarters of a pound of buhach, and mix it thoroughly. 

 After the addition of the buhach it should to be applied imme- 

 diately. The best manner of conveying it to the vineyard is 

 to place a barrel of it on a sled, so that it will not slop over. 

 Apply this mixture to the vines with a fountain spray pump. 

 Two men are necessary to do this successfully ; one man with 

 a spray pump on each side of the vine. The men should 

 stand about six feet from the vine when making the applica- 

 tion, and they should both apply the spray at the same mo- 

 ment. If they do not both make the application to the vine 

 at the same moment, the insects may some of them escape on 

 the opposite side of the vine from where the spray is applied. 

 This is certain to destroy ninety eight per cent of the insects 

 of any and every variety that may trouble vines or fruits or 

 flowers." 



A few days later Mr. Blowers wrote me as follows : 



"Woodland, June 3d, 1883. 



" Dear Sir : The vine-hoppers were so plentiful this Spring 

 that they destroyed many of the leaves on my vines before 

 they were half-grown. Had I depended on my destroying the 

 eggs and young hoppers, my entire crop would have been 

 ruined. The cold weather being favorable, I commenced the 

 work of spraying as I wrote you in my last. The buhach 

 retained its power longer as the solution did not dry so 

 rapidly, the vines being small. I did not get over my entire 

 vineyard before the warm weather came, and I found it neces- 

 sary to stop spraying, as the sun would burn the leaves. 



"The balance I have given a heavy dose of powdered 



