SPKAYINCJ KRI T 1T TKKKS \C. IN CANADA 991 

 Winter Washes. — For use before buds open. 



Copper sulphate : 4 lbs. to 100 gallons water — Is. 4d. per 100 gallons. 

 Alkali wash: proportions recommended by Wye Agricultural College 

 Kent. 



10 lbs. commercial caustic soda at id. I 



10 lbs. crude potash at (yd. [ 9s. Id. per 100 gallons. 



7)s lbs. soft soap at 2d. I 

 Paraffin-naphthalene emulsion (Cousins's patent) costs Is. to Is. 'Id. per 

 100 gallons. 



Soap wash for aphis, scale : 



10 lbs. hard or soft soap at 2.V/. to 100) n „ 



„ i 2s. per 100 gallons, 



gallons water. 1 1 



Quassia and soft soap : quassia 4 Lbs. atj ^ Qd 100 gallons, 

 id., soft soap 7 lbs. at 2d. f 1 8 



Pig. 2^:$. -Orchard Spray-pumj 



As an example of the cost of spraying, using a knapsack pump, on 

 one acre of bush apple trees, ten years old, planted nine feet apart (too 

 near), the following I found to be approximately the cost : 



s. d. 



107 gallons water (48 knapsacks x 2)> gallons) 



10 oz. Paris green at 2s. . . . . . .18 



9 lbs. copper sulphate at 8fd 8 0 



12 lbs. lime at \d. . 8 



Materials 4 0 



Labour, one man 2'\ days at id. per hour . . .90 

 Cartage of water and use of pump . . . 6 



14 0 



14s. -r- 494 trees = \d. per tree. 



If done with large pump and on more extensive scale, the cost of 

 labour is much reduced. Examples of cost of spraying in America are 

 given in Journal R.H.S. September 1902, p. 352 : Abstract, " Spraying 

 the Orchard," by W. B. Alwood. 



