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ready to exclaiui with J. II. Ilule, the veteran peach-grower of Couuectieut 

 and Georgia, " Blessed be the San Jose Scale ! It has compelled us to spray 

 with the lime, sulphur aud salt." 



(Fig. 66.) 

 Appearance of Soale on bark, (n) infested twig, natural size: (6) bark as it appears 

 under hand-lens, showiing scales in various stages of development, and young larva. 



(h. 0. lloimrd iind C. L. Marlntt, Bulletin Xo. S, Xew Scries, Division of Entomologu, 

 U. S. Dcpariment of Agriculture.) 



One application of lime, sulphur and salt each winter will do more for the 

 neglected orchard than can be done in any other way by the same expenditure 

 of cash and energy. It not only destroys San Jose Scale, but it also destroys 

 the branch form of wooly-aphis. the eggs of the green-aphis, the pear-leaf 

 blister-mite, tlie hibernating larvip of the prune twig-miner, probabl.v the 

 hibernating larvie of the bud-moth, together with most other insects 

 which may chance to be wintering uiion the trees. It is also a good 

 fungicide. If applied in early winter, it is nearly or quite equal to Bordeaux 

 for the .second application for apple-tree anthracnose ; applied to peach trees 

 just before the buds open in spring, it is a preventative of peach-leaf curl ; and 

 applied to apple trees under similar conditions it is a satisfactory substitute 

 for the aiiplication of Bordeaux, which is usuall.y recommended for that time. 



With all its good qualities, however, the lime, sulphur, salt spray is not a 

 cure-all. It does not. so far as known, reduce the number of wormy apples in 



