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book. If you want only kainit, use it alone or join it 

 with acid phosphate, one part to two of the latter, and 

 apply from 200 to 600 lbs. to the acre. If you want 

 potash, use any good potash and acid fertilizer in quan- 

 tities to be regulated by the rules given, and if you 

 think you need ammonia in addition to the phosphoric 

 acid and potash, then use a good super-phosphate with, 

 say .03 per cent of ammonia, and apply as occasion 

 requires; thus you will give all the food the peach-tree 

 needs for honest crops from well-fed trees. 



The peach-tree bark often becomes affected with 

 lice {Aphis Persica) and other pests, and it is important 

 to destroy them ; for this purpose the following wash 

 may be recommended, to be applied with a swab, work- 

 ing it well into the crevices of the bark, and well down 

 to the roots. It may be used as often as necessary and 

 is, in a measure, a fertilizer from the soap, etc., contained. 

 TREE WASH. 

 For 100 trees take four fluid ounces crude carbolic 

 acid, one quart soft soap, and mix thoroughly with one 

 half-gallon boiling water. Let it stand twenty-four 

 hours, then add two gallons rain-water, stirring all the 

 time you are swabbing it on the trees. Always apply 

 washes about June first, as they kill eggs and drive off 

 moths, etc. Other washes may be made by adding a 

 quart or two of crude carbolic acid to a half barrel of 

 whitewash, or by adding sulphur to whitewash, a handful 



