390 REMEDIES. 



REMEDY NO. 0.3. 



When the trees are dorinant, spray thoroughly with No. 11 

 or 12, one pound of the mixture to each gallon of water 

 used ; or Xo. lo, one pound of the mixture to each five quarts 

 of water used. 



Read Remedy No. 123 carefully. 



REMEDY NO. 54. 



When the tree is in leaf use No. G, four pounds of the mix- 

 tiiic t(i each five gallons of water used; spray thoroughly. 

 This solution will not injure the foliage or fruit and will etl'ect- 

 ually destroy mildew and young scale insects, and prevent the 

 females of the codlin moth, curculios, etc., from depositing 

 their eggs on the fruit. The spraying should he repeated in 

 about two weeks. No. 5 or 7 may be used, one pound to each 

 gallon of water. 



Note. — Pears on trees sprayed twice matured ten days 

 earlier than the pears that were not sprayed in the same orchard. 



See Remedy No. 69, E. 



REMEDY NO. 5.5. 



Various remedies have been recommen<led for d(>stroying 

 wire worms. The following I consider the most practical, at 

 least on farm lands in California : 



A. — In cases where garden flowers and plants, vegetable or 

 grass-plots are infested, cut [jotatoes in two or more pieces, 

 according to size, and cut out the cyt's ti> prevent tluiu from 

 growing. In each piece of potato stick a piece of rod or 

 })ointed stick; bury one or more pieces of potato near the 

 roots of the infested plants, one or two inches below the sur- 

 face of the ground. Examine every second day, and destroy 

 the larvie or grubs eating the ])otato. This has been tried in 

 this vicinity (Sacramento), and jtroved an excellent renicily. 

 A patch of ground that was so l)adly infested by wire-worms 



