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It is a great advantage to bay the bluestone coarsely pulverized, 

 as in this form it dissolves so much more rapidly. In this condition, 

 and with hot water, a large quantity of a concentrated solution of the 

 bluestone can be made very quickly. 



It is also well to have another barrel filled with slaked lime or 

 whitewash. By slaking a given quantity of lime for each barrel of the 

 whitewash, provided the same is well stirred, it will be easy to tell 

 about what weight of lime is in each gallon, and thus the necessary 

 quantity can be readily added by measure. 



In spraying use a nozzle whicli gives a misly spray ; wet every part., 

 but drench none. 



It is better to spray on a cloudy or jDartly overcast day, or when the 

 sun is not too hot ; thus the foliage is less apt to be injured. 



EXPERIMENTS AND DEPRAVITY. 



From "Spraying- for Peach Rot," ia Bulletin No. 19 of the Delaware Experiment Station. 



Mr. Townsend says : " I exjDerienced great trouble in keeping people 

 out of the orchard, and in some places along the road the trees were 

 stripped of every sound peach. This applied equally to those sprayed 

 and those not sprayed. Pilfering has continued from the time the 

 fruit commenced to turn red until the day it was gathered. I had 

 intended to ship in carriers, but found that because so much of the 

 largest and most attractive fruit had been stolen from the trees 

 it would not be profitable to so ship. The road is the main thorough- 

 fare leading from Milford to the bay shore, and has a hetivy travel 

 over it. The extent of this pilfering is shown from the fact that from 

 the twenty-one sprayed Amsden trees, near the center of the orchard, 

 I expected to pick as many i:)eaches as from twenty-eight sprayed 

 trees near the road ; on the contrary, I only obtained a little over one- 

 half as many. This aforesaid prospect held good until Saturday. On 

 Sunday I employed a man to watch along the road for the passers, 

 and did not suppose that they would come into the center of my 

 orchard by the back road : but they did. My neighbor informed me- 

 on Monday that seven carriages drove into my orchard from the back 

 road inside of two hours on Sunday morning, and that in the after- 

 noon several squads of boys visited it. One fact was certain — that; 

 the fruit was not there. I am satisfied that spraying will save the 

 peaches ; but jjlaced as I am on a public thoroughfare, I shall take 

 out the early fruit." 



This experience of Mr. Townsend's shows one of the drawbacks 

 liable to attend work of this kind. Blissful ignorance of what may 



