ao SPRAYING PEACHES. 
The effect of the treatments is to fairly clean the fruit from disease 
and to put it in a more or less sterilized condition, adding greatly to 
its keeping quality. This superiority of sprayed as against unsprayed 
fruit is one of the marked benefits and has been noted by all growers 
who have adopted the treatment. 
On July 14 sprayed and unsprayed Elberta fruit in the Hale orchard 
at Fort Valley, Ga., was picked and packed for a shipping test, but 
owing to a car shortage was not shipped. There were 64 crates of 
unsprayed fruit and 400 cratesof sprayed fruit. This fruit was stacked 
out on the ground where it remained in the sun and during occasional 
showers of rain until July 18 (4 days) and then 6 crates of each lot 
Fig. 12.—Crop from four unsprayed Salway trees, Okonoko, W. Va. Fruit in six baskets on the right 
affected with brown-rot; the remainder free from rot, but scabby. 
were examined for brown-rot. It was found that 62.7 per cent of 
the unsprayed fruit had rotted, while only 8 per cent of the sprayed 
fruit was so affected, showing conclusively the better keeping quality 
of the latter. 
EFFECT OF THE SELF-BOILED LIME-SULPHUR WASH ON 
SCALE INSECTS. 
Observations and experiments go to show that, when used as a sum- 
mer spray, the effect of the self-boiled lime-sulphur wash on the control 
of scale insects which may be present on the trees, especially the San 
Jose scale, is important. While to secure the best results in the con- 
trol of scale insects it would be desirable to coat the limbs and twigs 
more thoroughly than is accomplished in ordinary summer spraying, 
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