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any dried remains of fruit still clinging to the 

 peach trees. These contain the spores of the peach 

 fruit blight fungus. Burn them. 



Remove all wood older than one year from your 

 blackberry and raspberry bushes. And from the 

 currants and gooseberries prune off all wood older 

 than three years. Then burn every twig and 

 branch cut from the trees and bushes. 



As a remedy for the scale give a thorough spray- 

 ing with the California wash — a combination of 

 lime, sulphur, and salt. Dilute by adding twenty- 

 five parts of water to one of wash. A spraying liquid 

 which is a general remedy for fungus as well as 

 scale and other insects is made from limoid, a 

 combination of lime, magnesia and kerosene. 

 These are blended in an emulsion which works 

 smoothly through the sprayer and is less trouble 

 to prepare than the California wash. Or get a 

 ready prepared oil made for this purpose. 



If limoid is not obtainable, dry-slake stone lime. 

 Use about twenty pounds of lime for twenty-five 

 gallons of liquid. First pound it to break up the 



Before growth, starts clean up about fruit trees to 

 destroy insects that have endured the winter 



lumps. Put about four or five pounds in a box or 

 pail, and sprinkle enough hot water over it to start 

 slaking. Add the remainder of the lime and cover 

 the box. When the process is complete the lime 

 will be a fine dry powder. Sift it and mix with 

 kerosene in the proportion of four pounds of lime 

 to one gallon of kerosene. Then add to it Bor- 

 deaux mixture — three times the quantity of the 

 kerosene. Emulsify this mixture by rapidly agi- 

 tating it — a mere stirring will not suffice. One 

 way to do this is to use the spraying pump and 

 pump the liquid back into itself for five minutes, 

 working the pump vigorously. The other way is to 

 use a hoe and a covered barrel, and work the hoe 

 up and down through a hole in the cover after 

 the manner of the old-fashioned dash churn. This 

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When applied to the trees, this emulsion coats 

 them white. If, however, one ounce of lamp- 

 black is added to every five pounds of lime a dark 

 gray color will result which will not be objection- 

 able. This should be applied to the plum, peach, 

 pear, apple, quince, grape and small fruits, using 

 any good spraying apparatus. It is too strong to be 

 used after the buds swell or foliage appears. Twigs, 

 limbs and trunks should be thoroughly covered. 



The trunk borers must be reached in other ways. 

 If your peach trees have oozed sap now forming 

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 trunk, these pests are at work. Excavate six 

 inches below the surface at the base of the trees 

 and test the exposed trunk until you strike a soft 

 spot. Open this up with a knife. The culprit, 

 a soft white worm, will be found at the remote 

 end of the channel. Work until you have dis- 

 covered and destroyed all in the tree, then thor- 

 oughly paint the trunk below ground with tar and 

 replace the soil. 



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