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preventatives and care affect them all, it will 

 only be necessary to give the recipes for the 

 different spraying mixtures. 



The lime-sulphur-salt mixture for the San 

 Jose scale and sucking insects, to be used in 

 winter or very early spring, is made by slack- 

 ing 12 pounds of stone lime with boiling 

 water, in which 10 pounds of flower of sul- 

 phur has been mixed. We put the sulphur 

 into a large pail, mix it into a paste by grad- 

 ually adding water, until it is of a creamy 

 consistency, and immediately add it to the 

 lime. Altogether, 30 gallons of boiling water 

 are to be used. Some people say the salt is 

 of no curative value; others say it is; and 

 most decidedly it helps the other ingredients 

 to amalgamate, so we always put it into the 

 barrel with the lime. The mixture must boil 

 for two hours and be kept hot until used, or 

 it will clog the nozzle of the spraying machine. 



Bordeaux mixture for fungoids, to be used 

 before or after blossoming time, can be bought 

 ready mixed, and will save trouble when only 



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