APPLE GROWING 



fifty gallons of water. The mixture is best 

 prepared in larger quantities so as to get heat 

 enough from the slaking lime to produce a 

 violent boiling for a few minutes. First, place 

 say forty pounds of lime in a barrel and pour 

 on just water enough to start it slaking nicely 

 — about a gallon to each three or four pounds 

 of lime is usually sufficient. Then add the sul- 

 phur and enough more water to slake the paste, 

 keeping it well stirred meanwhile. The violent 

 boiling of the lime in slaking will cook the mix- 

 ture in from five to fifteen minutes, depending 

 on the quality of the lime and how fast it is 

 slaked. Just as soon as the violent boiling is 

 over add enough cold water to stop all action. 

 If this is not done, some sulphur will unite with 

 the lime and burning may be the result. 



This self-boiled mixture is entirely harmless 

 to apple foliage and even appears to have a 

 stimulating effect upon it. Against the apple 

 scab, however, it is not as effective as the boiled 

 wash, or the commercial preparations. For 

 this disease a strength of from one to thirty 

 to one to forty (that is about one and one-half 

 gallons of the prepared mixture testing 31 to 

 33 Beaume to fifty gallons of water) of the 

 commercial lime-sulphur is most effective. 

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