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dying, removing the old bark to the sap-wood first. Mr. 

 Saunders thinks sulphur is the most useful ingredient, 

 not attaching much importance to the Carbolic Acid. 



THE SAUNDERS AGRICULTURAL GROUNDS PEAR TREE 

 WASH. 



Crude Carbolic Acid, one quart. 



Powdered Sulphur, ten pounds. 



Stone Lime, one-half bushel. 



Hot Water, sufficient to make whitewash. 



Put the sulphur and lime together in a barrel and 

 pour on hot water until the lime has been slaked. 

 This wash should be applied to the body and limbs of 

 the trees before the buds expand in the spring, and it then 

 will not injure them. Of course it is not to be used 

 unless we have found evidence of the presence of the 

 psylla, in the spring, or the year before. 



These remarks concerning these insects may be dry 

 reading to some, but I warn peninsula fruit growers to 

 heed them, for they are increasing annually in numbers 

 and kind, and in the future, he who fights them most 

 successfully will be the most amply rewarded. 



Don't forget to build fires in all your fruit orchards 

 eachseason,occasionally during the hot nights in May,and 

 each of the summer months, Thousands of moths will 

 fly into these fires and be destroyed. 



