FRUIT PESTS AND ENEMIES 



Sprays for ihe Grape 



1. Shortly before blossoms open. 



Bordeaux mixture {3-3-.50), for mildew and black-rot. 



Add 3 pounds lead arsenate paste {1^ ■, pounds powder) to 50 gallons, if flea- 

 beetles or curculio are prevalent. (1 oz. paste to each gallon.) 



2. Just after fruit is set. 



Materials and pests as in No. 1, but especially to control berry-moth larva; and 

 root-worm beetles. 



3. Ten to fourteen days after No. 2. 



Materials as in No. 2, for rot mildew, berry-moth, and root-worm. 



For leaf-hopper, add tobacco extract (40 per cent nicotine sulphate), J^pint to 



50 gallons (1 teaspoonful to 3 gallons), and apply so as to hit the young before 



they can fly. 



4. If berry-moth, mildew, or rot is serious, repeat bordeaux and arsenate in two to 



three weeks. 



Sprays for ihe Currant and Gooseberry 



1. Soon after fruit sets. 



Lime-sulphur diluted 1 to 40 and 3 pounds of arsenate of lead paste (1}4 pounds 

 powder) in 50 gallons of water (1 oz. to 1 gaUon), for currant-worm and fungi. 



2. After the fruit has been harvested. 



Lime-sulphur as in No. 1, for fungi. 



The owner of a home fruit-garden can hardly afford 

 spraying ^.p prepare his own spraying material. There are but 



Spravine ^^^ communities in the country where ready-made 



Machinery sprays cannot be purchased better and cheaper than 



they can be made in a small way. Methods of using 

 usually accompany the material. It adds zest to the game, however, 

 to prepare one's own material, and those so minded should begin the 

 season's campaign during the previous winter by reading the latest 

 teachings in experiment station literature. 



It is well for every grower, no matter how small his plantation, 

 to own his own spraying machinery. Here is a case, indeed, where 

 "borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry." Spraying machinery is 

 easily got out of gear and needs the particular attention of its owner 

 to keep it ready for the fray. Pump and accessories must be kept com- 

 plete, convenient, and clean, that the enemy may be attacked at the 

 first advance. Handy and efEcient spraying machinery is now common 

 and cheap, and may be purchased from local dealers in nearly all farm- 

 ing communities. There is no one "best outfit." 



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