GENERAL FRUITS. 153 



My orchard is set on a rich, sandy loam, and nearly level. It has 

 good drainage. 



There area few orchards in this county that have stood the winters 

 and produced fairly good crops. They are on high, clay knolls and 

 have timber protection. 



Our county is well adapted to the growth of small fruits. It has 

 numerous lakes surrounded with natural groves, in which can be 

 found growing in wild profusion grapes, raspberries, currants, 

 gooseberries, cranberries, plums, wild cherries, etc. 



Farmers are paying more attention to small fruits. They should 

 all join your society and get your reports, which are worth much 

 inore to me than the small membership fee. 



TIMELY HINTS ON SPRAYING. 



Culled from UuUetin No. 43, Ohio Experiment Station. 



COMBINED MIXTURES. 



Combined mixtures have a wider range of usefulness than is 

 comtnonly supposed; in fact, our leading fruit crops may be best 

 treated in this manner. In most cases where either Paris green or 

 London purple is to be used for insects, it is much better to apply 

 them in connection with Bordeaux mixture than alone, and in some 

 cases where the treatment is specially for a fungous disease, it is 

 well to add an arsenite. The following reasons may be assigned for 

 usixig arsenites (London pur^jle and Paris green) in combination 

 with Bordeaux mixture: 



(1) Where both are required, time is saved by using them in com- 

 bination. 



(2) The Bordeaux mixture prevents the arsenite doing harm to 

 the foliage. 



(3) Either is quite as efficient in combination as alone, and in 

 some cases more so. 



(4) It is not always known whether one or both are needed, hence, 

 as a precaution, it is better to use both in combination. 



MIXTURES U.SI3D IN SPRAYING. 



Dilute Bordeaux mixture. 



Copper sulphate (blue vitrol) i pounds. 



(J nick lime, 4 pounds. 



Water, 50 gallons. 

 Dissolve the copper sulphate in two gallons of hot water and pour 

 into the barrel or tank used in spraying, after which fill the tank 

 nearly half full of cold water. Slake the lime in another vessel and 

 pour into the copper sulphate solution, straining through a brass 

 wire strainer with about thirty meshes to the inch. The lime will 

 not dissolve readily, hence, after pouring off, each time more water 

 is to be added to the lime and poured off as before, until nearly all 

 the lime is dissolved or taken up in suspension, which is really the 

 case. Water to make 40 or 50 gallons in all is then to be added. 



