HARRISONS' NURSERIES, BERLIN, MD. 



Our Full Spraying Schedule is as Follows 



No. I. For San Jose scale, winter spray. Use standard concentrated 

 lime-sulphur solution, at a strength of one gallon to seven to nine gallons 

 of water. (See manufacturer's printed instructions.) If bud moth and 

 case-bearers are attacking the trees, mix three or four pounds of arsenate 

 of lead with each fifty gallons of spray. Spray during the dormant period. 

 If leaf-curl threatens the Peach trees, the standard lime-sulphur spray 

 controls it, but do the spraying three to four weeks before the trees are 

 expected to bloom; this controls both scale and leaf-curl. 



No. 2. For curculio, scab and brown-rot. Spray just before the petals 

 fall. Use one and ©ne-half pounds of arsenate of lead to fifty gallons of 

 water. To this mixture add the milk of lime, made by slaking three 

 pounds of stone lime in three to four gallons of water, and straining out 

 the coarse stuff. 



No. 3. For curculio, scab and brown-rot, second dose. Spray ten days 

 after the blossom petals fall. . Use self-boiled lime-sulphur (made from 

 eight pounds of stone lime and eight pounds of sulphur to fifty gallons of 

 water). If curculio still threatens, add one and one-half pounds of arsenate 

 of lead. 



No. 4. For scab and brown-rot. Spray thirty days before fruit ripens. 

 Use self-boiled lime-sulphur. If aphides attack the trees, either leaves or 

 roots, spray with tobacco solution ("Black-leaf 40"). Follow the directions 

 on the cans. Black-leaf 40 can be secured from most manufacturers of 

 spraying material. 



Cultivation. — The entire orchard is disked, harrowed and smoothed 



about every week from the first of March to the middle of July. Trees 



are examined for borers four times during the year. 



We believe in early and thorough cultivation, until about July 15. We 



then stop cultivating and sow with cowpeas, soy beans, or some cover- 

 crop, if possible, to allow the wood to 

 ripen thoroughly for the winter. 



We watch carefully the condition of our 

 trees and fertilize with commercial fertil- 

 izers, in quantity and analysis to suit the 

 need, using cover-crops to protect the 

 land in the winter, which, when turned 

 under in early spring, add humus to the 

 soil. We depend more on thorough culti- 

 vation than on fertilizers. 



If you don't already have an orchard, 

 plant one without further delay. Ten 

 acres of land planted to peach or apple 

 trees will pay you more net profit than 

 ten times that acreage will in most cases 

 pay when planted to the usual farm crops, 

 and with considerably less labor. 



Have you taken the time to figure how 

 much money invested at 6 per cent would 

 earn $43,000.00 in two years? Take the 

 time now, and you will find that a lOO-acre 

 orchard four years old (many of the trees 

 in our orchard were that age in 1913) is 

 capable of paying a yearly dividend which 



The right time to spray for would be equal to 6 per cent interest on a 

 codlin-moth — petals fallen $358,333.00 investment. 



