A PLANT FOR PREPARING UME-SULPHUR WASH 



This wash is prepared by cooking a lime and sulphur mixture with steam. The mixture 

 is applied to trees in late winter, and is the best remedy so far found for the San Jose 

 scale. All the large commercial orchards have their own plants for preparing this wash, 

 which must be applied yearly to save the trees and fruit crop. 



A SPRAYING APPARATUS FOR APPLYING THE LIME-SULPHUR WASH IN ORCHARDS 



This is a winter treatment, and is the best-known means of controlling the San Jose 

 scale. More than 5 million dollars a year are spent by fruit-growers in spraying orchards 

 in this way. In addition to this cost is the actual loss from the San Jose scale itself, which 

 very much exceeds the cost of the spray application in orchards not sprayed or imperfectly 

 treated. A proper inspection and quarantine law would have prevented this enormous yearly 

 loss. 



