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mixture with sweetened water, enough to make a paste. Towards evening 

 put a spoonful near each hill ; the caterpillars are quite partial to bran, and 

 a little of this mixture will accomplish much. If this method is used 

 chickens should be kept out of the field for a few days. 



Formalin for potato scab. — Use 1 pint to 50 gallons of water ; soak the 

 tubers in this solution for two hours. For grain smuts, moisten the grain 

 thoroughly by sprinkling and shovelling it over, allow the grain to remain 

 in piles for four or five hours, then spread out to dry. 



Lime, sulphur, and salt wash. — An effective and cheap remedy against 

 scale insects. Apply after leaves have fallen and before the "buds open in 

 spring. Slake 15 lb. lime in 4 or 5 gallons of hot water, using an iron 

 kettle of 20 to 25 gallons capacity. When the slaking is in full progress 

 sift in 15 lb. sulphur (flowers) gradually, meanwhile stirring the mixture 

 thoroughly. Mix well, and add sufficient water to make a thick paste. 

 Add 5 to 10 lb. salt and 6 or 8 gallons of hot water, and boil for 40 or 

 50 minutes. Pour through a strainer made of tin or brass wire, 16-20 

 meshes to the inch, add water to make fifty gallons, and the mixture is 

 ready for use. 



An adhesive spray for plants with smooth glossy leaves. — Place 1 lb. 

 fish oil (or any cheap animal oil, except tallow), 5 lb. pulverised resin, 

 and a gallon of water in a kettle, and heat until the resin is thoroughly 

 softened. Then dissolve and add 1 lb. concentrated lye slowly, stirring 

 constantly until the solution is thoroughly mixed. Add four gallons of 

 hot water and boil until a clear amber-coloured liquid is obtained. Add 

 more water, if necessary, to make five gallons of this stock solution. For 

 spraying, take the following : 



This mixture can be used with the Bordeaux mixture, and also with 

 arsenate of lead and other stomach poisons, at the rate of 1 gallon of the 

 stock solution to 16 gallons of the spraying mixture. — C. H. H. 



Spraying Fruit-trees. By E. P. Sandsten (U.S.A. Agr. Exp. Stn. 

 Wisconsin, Bull. 110, pp. 3-28). — Recommends thorough spraying — trunk, 

 branches, and leaves— as uncovered patches serve as means of attack 

 and breeding places for the pest, from which the enemy or enemies may 

 spread over the orchard. Scab on Apples and brown rot in Plums are 

 the chief fungoid diseases. Fungicides in general should not be looked 

 upon as remedies, but as preventives. The first spraying should be made 

 before the leaves have begun to expand or before the blossom buds are 

 too prominent, to prevent the spores of fungi that have lodged among the 

 buds and axes of the leaf shoots from germinating. Bordeaux mixture 

 or sulphate of copper are the best sprays for this purpose. 



The second spraying should be made as soon as the petals have fallen : 

 this may be of Bordeaux mixture together with Paris -green or lead 

 arsenate, which will be useful in killing the larva? of the codlin moth, the 

 eggs of which are generally laid at the calyx end of the Apple, and by 



Stock solution . 

 Water . 



Milk of lime or whitewash 

 Paris green 



