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THE AMERICAN PEACH ORCHARD 



grower should write to leading supply houses and 

 wholesale dealers in drugs and chemicals for sam- 

 ples and prices. 



Lime-sulphur is the nastiest, dirtiest and most 

 humanly unpleasant spray ever devised. Perhaps 

 this is one reason why it makes the scales so uncom- 

 fortable. Every fruit grower must become inured 

 to the annual hardship of the lime-sulphur cam- 

 paign, and as far as possible he must try to inure 



the hired men to it. Let him 

 remember, though, that it is 

 a vile experience, and let 

 him have some patience, 

 especially with green men. 

 The man who sprays with 

 lime-sulphur for four weeks 

 in the spring is entitled to at 

 least a half day off the 

 Fourth of July. The solu- 

 tion is very hard on the skin, 

 and harder on some men 

 than on others. Care must 

 be taken to prevent the solu- 

 tion falling on the hands and 

 face. The hands ought to be 

 protected with coarse, cheap 

 SINGLE "VERMOREL" NOZZLE cotton glovcs, which cau bc 



thrown away as fast as they 

 wear through. Even the horses or the mules at- 

 tached to the spray wagon are entitled to the pro- 

 tection of a good blanket. The sulphur spray will 

 injure the harness as well as the horses. 



This solution is used chiefly for the early spring 

 campaign against the San Jose scale ; but it has very 

 distinct fungicidal properties and serves to check 



