82 THE KANSAS PEACH. 



THE CURCULIO. 



From a Texas Experiment Station Bulletin. 



While we have had very fair success in spraying plums for the cur- 

 culio with the arsenical compound, our success in spraying peaches 

 does not encourage us to recommend it. As before stated, the peach 

 is very susceptible to injury from the use of these poisons, and the 

 quantity used must be very small, probably one pound to 200 gallons 

 of water, and then some lime must be mixed with it. We prefer the 

 jarring method for the peach. If the insects are jarred down into 

 sheets early in the morning they do not fly readily, and may easily be 

 caught and killed. The trees can be jarred for something less than 

 five cents per tree. When the wormy fruit falls to the ground it is a 

 good idea to turn hogs in to eat it up, which greatly prevents the insect 

 next year. 



GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR SPRAYING PEACH TREES 

 FOR PEACH ROT. 



From a Bulletin of the Delaware College Aerricultural Experiment Station. 



For the treatment of peach trees, the following brief directions are 

 given : 



1. During the winter or very early in the spring remove from the 

 trees and gather and burn all mummitied fruit. 



2. Very early in the spring it will be Avell to spray the trees thor- 

 oughly with a solution of copper sulphate (bluestone), one pound of 

 bluestone to twenty-five gallons of water. 



3. When the fruit-buds begin to swell, spray either with the ace- 

 tate of copper solution or the Bordeaux mixture. 



4. Just before the fruit-buds open, repeat the latter, 



5. When bloom begins to shed, spray with Paris green, three 

 ounces to the barrel of water: to this add about a quart of whitewash 

 (milk of lime); or with Bordeaux mixture, adding to each barrel 

 three ounces of Paris green. 



6. In ten days or two weeks repeat the latter. 



7. When fruit just begins to color, spray with copper acetate solu- 

 tion. 



8. Repeat the latter in a week or ten days. 



In preparing the Bordeaux mixture, especial stress is to be laid on 

 the advantage of preparing beforehand a barrel of strong bluestone 

 solution, made so that each gallon of the solution will contain say 

 two XDOunds of bluestone. 



