154 An American Fruit-Farm 



Regions free from pernicious insects and fungi 

 yesterday are infected to-day; those free to-day 

 will be infected to-morrow. As the price of liberty 

 is eternal vigilance, so the price of fruit is cease- 

 less spraying. It must from henceforth be coimted 

 an essential part of fruit-growing. 



Now fruit-growing is not only special farming 

 but itself breaks up in specialties. One must know 

 his orchard and his vineyard. In spraying the rule 

 is, Each tree after its kind. For this reason alone 

 the fruit-grower should beware of many varieties as 

 of grapes, and many kinds of fruit, in petty sec- 

 tions, this of plums, that of peaches, a third of 



beetle, bug, borer, — whatsoever its character, — that injures the fruit- 

 farm. Of similar value are "Important Insecticides: Directions for 

 their Preparation and Use, " Farmers* Bulletin No. 127, United States 

 Department of Agriculture, by C. L. Marlatt, M.S., Washington, 

 Government Printing Office, 1901; and "Insecticides and Fungicides: 

 Chemical Composition and Effectiveness of Certain Preparations," 

 Farmers' Bulletin^ No. 146. By J. K. Haywood, Washington, Govern- 

 ment Printing Office, 1902. These may be had for the asking. 



The Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station issues a "Spray Calendar," 

 for the treatment of diseased conditions in plants, — ^a Bulletin for plant 

 diseases and insect pests, prepared by W. J. Green, A. D. Selby, and 

 P. J. Parrott. This sheet is of extraordinary practical value. It gives 

 specific formulas for all fungicides, telling exactly how to prepare them 

 and apply them; specifically states the seed or plant that is attacked by 

 insect or fungus; for what it is treated; how to be treated; and an elabo- 

 rate spray calendar for each plant, shrub, tree, vine, stating the exact 

 time of successive applications of spray and how much to be used. 

 There are also "remarks and cautions" for the benefit of the inexperi- 

 enced. 



The fruit-grower will wisely correspond with, or at least secure these 

 and like valuable publications from, whatsoever Experimental Stations 

 are within his reach. Both the General Government and the State 

 Governments now expend vast sums for the benefit of farmers whatever 

 special branch of farming be pursued. 



