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MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Ground plowed twice each season this way is very easily kept 

 cultivated, and very little need be done in tlie way of hoeing 

 by hand except to level the ground after plowing away in the spring. 

 If the above directions are carefully followed, July ist will find 

 your vineyard with a promising crop of grapes and very little more 

 to do until you have ripe fruit to repay you for your trouble. 



Mr. Geo. J. Kellogg (Wis.) : What formula do you use with 

 a knapsack sprayer that will not clog the nozzle ? 



Mr. Bost: I have lots of trouble, and I wish some one would 

 invent a nozzle that would not clog. 



Mr. Kellogg: I wish so too. 



SPRAYING FOR FUNGOUS DISEASES AND LEAF- 

 EATING INSECTS. 



F. L. WASHBURN, STATE ENTOMOLOGIST, ST. AXTHOXY PARK. 



The writer wishes to again urge upon horticulturists and nur- 

 serymen the importance of spraying, and spraying in time and in- 

 telligently, to combat insect and fungous attacks on fruit' trees and 



Spraying strawberry plants with liquid Bordeaux. 



nursery rows. These evils grow yearly in proportion as the acreage 

 in fruit trees and nurseries grows. Lime and sulphur spray for 

 early spring (too late now) and Bordeaux mixture for late spring 

 and summer are the standard solutions to work with, and the 

 formula for each has been given before in the pages of this magazine. 



