THE PRACTICAL COUNTRY GENTLEMAN 



the ammonia with 7 volumes of water. Add the 

 paste to the diluted ammonia, and stir until 

 dissolved. Dilute to 45 gallons. Allow to 

 settle, and use only the clear blue liquid. This 

 mixture loses strength while standing. 



Grapes are subject to attack from rose bugs 

 in May. Spray with arsenate of lead. This 

 mixture is made by dissolving six oz. of lead 

 acetate (sugar of lead) in two quarts of warm 

 water in a wooden pail, while two oz. of arsenate 

 of soda (50 per cent pure) Is dissolved in one 

 quart of water in another wooden pail. Pour 

 these into fifty gallons of water, and use. 



In the strawberry patch. May sometimes 

 brings the grub of the sawfly — a small green 

 worm which eats holes In the leaves. Spray 

 with arsenate of lead. 



When we come to our orchards there is al- 

 ways something to be done In the way of spray- 

 ing, trimming, and cultivating. San Jose scale 

 Is always with us; then there is the bud worm, 

 for which we can use Paris green in Bordeaux 

 mixture as the buds swell. The canker worm 

 is best prevented by banding the trees with 

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