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when you come to anthracnose or canker, lime-sulfur will 

 not do the work. We have to use the Bordeaux, 6-6-50, and 

 I really believe you would get better results by using Bor- 

 deaux in that proportion in the fall after the fruit is picked 

 and before the leaves have dropped. You get more canker 

 and scab at that time than at any other time, especially in 

 the country where you have a rainy season. The season 

 last fall was a very good time for the apple scab to thrive. 

 I don't know how it was with you, but with us it was bad, 

 especially on the green apples and the Yellow Newtown. 

 "We sprayed for the apple scab in the fall just as soon as the 

 apples were picked and before the leaves fell. "VVe put it on 

 as a preventative. The fungus doesn't start to work until 

 after the rain; the leaves fall and if they are not sprayed 

 the fungus starts up and works all winter and is in fine 

 shape to start in the spring and it is a good deal harder to 

 control with lime-sulfur than Avith Bordeaux. I don't be- 

 lieve that fall spraying of Bordeaux has ever been practiced 

 here, but I believe it would be a mighty good thing if it 

 should be started. We find that it does away with the scab 

 and makes it not so hard a campaign in the spring. The 

 question of using Bordeaux in the spring is a hard problem 

 and one well worth looking after for this reason : You will 

 spray at the time of the year when it is damp and moist, 

 and that is the one time when it will do injury; in a wet 

 season, with lime-sulfur, we use the mixture of one to thirty 

 without any damage. One damage you will get, though, 

 from lime-sulfur and which we had two years ago was us- 

 ing it in extremely hot weather, because you get damage 

 from that in the hot weather the same as you do from Bor- 

 deaux in damp. I would advise being careful about the 

 lime-sulfur spray in summer time, when it is hot. Two 

 years ago we had considerable loss in Hood River, especial- 

 ly in the hot days. I quit spraying at noon, made up my 

 mind that something would happen if I didn't, and I looked 

 at it a couple of days afterwards and the apples were scorch- 

 ed. A good many neighbor's apples were ruined by con- 

 tinuing spraying in the hot weather, but at the same time I 

 had another neighbor who didn't use lime-sulfur but used 

 the straight arsenate and he burnt his, so that you couldn't 

 lay it to that entirely. No doubt he would have had some 

 of the same damage, but not to the same extent, if the Bor- 

 deaux had been used. Water or lime-sulfur going onto the 

 apples forms a mixture and burns. That is the result with 



