36 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The President: What do you find to spray it on? There 

 are no leaves there at that time? 



Answer: You want to get it on to anything" that is there. 

 You want to kill these caterpillars when they are little fellows. 

 The tent caterpillar has hatched out from the Qgg, and you can 

 get at them then to kill them better than you can later. We 

 sprayed last spring and we killed out clean all the tent cater- 

 pillars. 



Mr. Ives : I would agree with what Mr. Hart says, that if 

 one is troubled with tent caterpillars, it is better to spray before 

 the blossoms open. I do not have them, and so I do not need 

 to spray until the codlin moth come along. 



Mr. Cook : I would like to inquire if this spraying will kill 

 the green aphis? 



Mr. Ives : I should think not. Not in my experience any- 

 way. I used to spray, as I say, before the blossoms opened. 

 I used nothing but sulphate of copper. You can get the spray 

 in among the limbs, and it tends to keep them cleaner and 

 healthier. Yon can get the spray in among the limbs of the 

 trees at that time handier than you can later. It has that 

 advantage. 



A Member : I would say that I have followed that method 

 and used as high as twelve pounds of copper to fifty gallons of 

 water. Of course that is excessive, and I do not think it is 

 necessary, but there is one thing certain, it leaves the bark 

 smooth and clean, and the trees are exceptionally healthy. 



The President : That would be the remedy for the peach 

 leaf-curl. I used this particularly for brown rot in plums, and 

 incidentally, the peach trees being in the same orchard received 

 the same dose. 



Question 13 on the list is this: "Has any one in the State 

 tried the lime, sulphur and salt mixture for San Jose scale?" 



That is a California remedy. Has anyone tried it in this 

 State ? There does not seem to be anyone here who has done so. 

 It is reported from Washington that it did not answer in the 

 eastern states. That opinion, I understand, was based on some 

 trials of it which were made, but some people are beginning to 

 think that that trial was not a very fair one. and one or two 

 experiments that I have heard of this season seem to indicate 

 that it does work in the eastern states. 



