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For this })urpo,se, paralliu emulsion does .H'ooil, init toljacco wasli is 

 most sui;cessfiil. Tlic paralliu emulsicm was found successful liy two 

 large Worcester growers, wlm made it as follows: soft soap S ll)s., 

 paraffin 4 gallons, water 100 gallons (8). 



But 1 iiave noticed tliat where this wash is used and tiickles 

 down into tiie trusses that scorching often results, and as Mr. fJlive 

 Mnrdock of Linton has pointed out to me, does as much liarm 

 as the suckers. 



Some few years ago attention was drawn (7) to autumnal 

 spraying with paraffin emulsion to kill the winged adults liofore 



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j-lG. 130.— APPLE TitEK CUATED WITH LIME AND SALT To PIIKIKN'T APPLE SCCKEl:. 



they lay their eggs. TJie time to do this is directly the fruit is 

 picked, and the emulsion may then Ije used at double its normal 

 strength. 



The emulsion must be sent out in a dense spray and directed 

 not only over the leaves but also at the clouds of suckers that 

 fly under the trees. 



Mr. Smitli of Loddington wrote me in 1005 that very few 

 would be hit, but from personal observations I found that the 

 majority can easily be killed. ]Mr. Oswald Ellis of Bramley tried 

 this treatment in badly infested plantations in the autumn of 1000, 



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