14 BIENNIAL REPORT 



DIP FOR NURSERY STOCK AJMD WINTER SPRAY FOR SCALE INSECTS 

 Place ten pounds of lime and twenty pounds of sulphur in a boiler with 

 20 gallons of water and boil briskly for two hours, then put twenty pounds of 

 lime in a cask and slack it with water. Add 15 pounds of coarse salt; when 

 dissolved add this to the lime and sulphur and boil half an hour longer. 

 Apply lukewarm. 



SUMMER SPRAY FOR GREEN APHIS. 



Quassia chips 8 pounds. 



Whale Oil soap 7 pounds. 



Water 100 gallons. 



Boil the quassia chips in water one hour. Dissolve the soap in hot 

 water, strain both and mix together. Add enough water to make 100 

 gallons. This remedy is to be used with a spray pump with good force. It 

 does not injure the foliage. 



BORDEAUX MIXTURE FOR FUNGUS DISEASES. 



Sulphate of Copper (bluestone) 4 pounds. 



Fresh Lime 4 pounds. 



Water 50 gallons. 



Place 25 gallons of water in a barrel, hang four pounds of bluestone in 

 the water, enclosed in a piece of gunny sack; slack four pounds of limf» 

 carefully; then add enough water to make 25 gallons. Run the lime milk 

 through a fine wire strainer, then mix with copper sulphate solution. Spray 

 before the buds open, before the blossoms open, and again after the bios* 

 soms have fallen. 



HELLEBORE FOR PEAR AND CHERRY SLUGS, GOOSEBEI^RY AND 



CURRANT WORMS. 

 The hellebore may be dusted on dry with a blowing machine, or if 

 preferred steep one ounce of hellebore in a gallon of water, and use as a 

 spray. 



PARIS GREEN FOR CODLING MOTH, CATERPILLARS AND LEAF EAT- 

 ING INSECTS. 



Paris Green 4 ounces. 



Water 50 gallons. 



Slacked lime 1 pound. 



Strain the lime after slacking as in making the Bordeaux mixture. Dis- 

 solve the Paris Green as well as possible; mix and apply as a spray. 



Paris Green is often badly adulterated. Be careful to secure it of relia- 

 ble parties who will guarantee its quality. 



The first work of the secretary was to prepare for publication the rules 

 and regulations as adopted by the board, and when printed, together with 

 the law, to distribute the same as early and as widely as possible. 2.500 

 copies of this pamphlet were printed and sent out to members of the board, 

 the fruit dealers of the state and to all nurserymen and fruit growers whose 



