DIRECTIONS FOR SPRAYING. 



among the different kinds of fruits, so 

 that you can furnish a continuous supply 

 from the time strawberries are ripe until 

 all small fruits are gone. Look first to 

 your local market, for they must be the 

 largest consumers. 



F. Johnson said that one thing that 

 everybody ought to grow was asparagus, 

 as it was easy to grow, and one of the 

 best of all the garden crops for home 

 use. In strawberries he called Crescent 

 his best berry, with Haverland second, 

 and Beder Wood for a fertilizer. Had 



found that Enhance has one good point, 

 the pickers wont eat it, the quality is 

 so poor, for that reason the yield seems 

 larger. 



In the discussion of varieties that 

 followed, Mr. Read said that Splendid, 

 Enhance, Brandywine, Lovett's, Beder 

 Wood, Parker Earle, Haverland and 

 Bubach would be the varieties that they 

 intended to set this spring at Riverdale 

 Farm. 



L. H. Read. 



Grand Rapids, Wis. 



DIRECTIONS FOR SPRAYING. 



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I. Apple. 



'Treatment for destroying 



codling moth, bud moth, tent 

 , _L caterpillar, canker worm, apple 

 spot, leaf blight, pistol case bearer 

 and potvdery mildew. 



First spraying : Bordeaux mixture and 

 Paris green (4 oz. to the barrel of the 

 mixture) when the buds are swelling. 



Second spraying : Bordeaux mixture 

 and Paris green before the blossoms open. 



Third spraying : Bordeaux mixture 

 and Paris green when the blossoms have 

 fallen. 



Fourth and fifth sprayings : Bordeaux 

 mixture and Paris green at intervals of 

 ten to fifteen days if necessary. 



No definite date can be named after 

 which it would be safe to cease spray- 

 ing for the apple scab. The orchard 

 should be watched after the third or 

 fourth application, and the treatment 

 again applied if scab appears on the 

 fruit or leaves. 



Many apple growers who sprayed in 

 1897 until the end of June, and neg- 

 lected to watch their orchards afterward, 

 lost heavily. The scab appeared very 

 late in the season last year, and all the 



experimental orchards were given an 

 extra application in the early part of 

 July, which largely accounts for the 

 splendid results obtained. 



2. Pear. 



Leaf blight scab and codling moth, the 

 same treatment as for the apple. 



3. Plum. 



Curculio, brown rot and leaf blight. 



First spraying : Bordeaux mixture be- 

 fore the fiower buds open. 



Second spraying : Bordeaux mixture 

 and Paris green as soon as the petals 

 have fallen. 



Third spraying : Bordeaux mixture 

 and Paris green in seven to ten days 

 after. 



Fourth spraying : Bordeaux mixture 

 in ten to fifteen days after. 



4. Peach. 



Brown fruit rot, leaf blight, plum curcu- 

 lio and peach curl {Exoascus sp.) 



First and second spraying : Same as 

 for the treatment of the plum. 



Third spraying : Bordeaux mixture in 

 two or three weeks. 



Fourth spraying : Ammoniacal cop- 

 per carbonate, if any danger of disfigur- 

 ing the fruit with Bordeaux mixture. 

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