642 NEW JERSEY STATE AGRICULTURAL 



It was with some surprise therefore, that I heard several 

 farmers speak of having obtained good results from their ap- 

 plications at the Somerville meeting oi the Somerset County 

 Board of iVgriculture, October 15th. Both apple and peach 

 trees had been treated, and while the scale had not been cleaned 

 out, seemed to have been materially reduced in numbers. That 

 locality had nothing to do with it, is proved by the fact that one 

 of the most complete failures of the soda occurred not far from 

 the meeting place, in an o^rchard of mixed apple and pear, where 

 in early Sq>tember every tree was almost literally plastered with 

 scale after an early springs treatment with the soda. 



In any case I cannot recommend the material as offering any 

 reasonable prospect of producing good results. 



SALIMENE. 



Salimene is a grayish or bluish white powder, apparently a 

 mixture of some lime compound, which was adveitised vei^y 

 positively as a scale destroyer. It is manufactured by a Mon- 

 momth county corporation, which very courteously sent me a 

 supply to be tested. 



Most of the' material was used with results that could not be 

 accepted as a test of the real value, because of neglect on the 

 part of the experimenter; but on six of my own trees I made 

 the application and noted results myself. 



All the applications were made April 5th, on the afternoon of 

 a bright, ^\•arm spring day, when the trees were dry, and just 

 before the buds began to swell out. The proportion was i 

 pound in i gallon of water, and for convenience, warm water 

 was used. It was first mixed into a paste, then stirred into the 

 pail, from which it was transferred to the sprayer. Tt remained 

 in suspension very well and was readily applied. When dry 

 there was a whitish green deposit, something like th.at nf the 

 Bordeaux mixture. In each case the X'ermorel nozzle was used 

 and the application was thorough. 



The trees treated were : 



Pear — Japan Golden Russet, 2; Vermont Beauty, 3. 

 Peach — Greensborough, 1. 



The Japan pears were not much infested in the first place 

 and should have formed excellent subjects for the action of the 

 insecticide; yet on June 27th. when an examination was made, 



