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JAMES W. GIFFIN'S THOROUGHBREDS AT CHARLESTOWN, ILL. 
'"PHIS illustration is from a photograph sent us July 12, 1907, by Mr. Giffin who says: "I finished picking the 3d 
day of July, 1907, and had a good crop considering the awful spring we had this year — three heavy frosts after 
the vines were in bloom. But notwithstanding all these difficulties I sold $352.00 worth of berries and have won the 
praise of the leading merchants of our town. They tell me I supplied them the finest berries they ever saw. My 
fancy berries I sold for $4.00 per case and had no trouble in selling all I grew at a good price." 
vidual and the general public are concerned in 
this matter. Clean, healthy plants and clean 
cultivation are the first great preventives, but 
when effort in these directions has failed, spray- 
ing becomes absolutely necessary, and where 
spraying is intelligently and persistently done it 
will be effective of good results. 
Just when spraying is to be done depends upon 
the circumstances of the case. A field perfectly 
free from either of the troubles named of course 
requires no spraying, although on the Kellogg 
Farms spraying is kept up throughout the season, 
even though there be no apparent reason for so 
doing. The difference, however, lies in the fact 
that we are propagating plants on scientific lines 
which are to be shipped all the country over, and 
we insist that every plant shipped shall be abso- 
lutely free from the suspicion of taint. There- 
fore during our growing season our plants receive 
as many as eight thorough drenchings with Paris 
green and Bordeaux mixture combined. We 
spray to prevent, not to cure, and so if an insect 
or a fungous spore lights on a Kellogg plant, 
death to either is instantaneous. The value of 
such insurance as this affords our customers may 
hardly be computed. 
Paris green is effective in the case of all in- 
sects of a leaf-eating nature, except, perhaps, the 
rose-chafer, and arsenate of lead never fails to 
dispose of the chafer. Arsenate of lead would 
be more generally used if it were not so expen- 
sive, as it is equally effective in the case of all 
leaf-eating insects. When used for rose-chafers 
or hard-shelled potato-beetles, arsenate should 
be mixed at the rate of five pounds of lead to 
fifty gallons of water. For other leaf-eating in- 
sects, two and a half pounds to fifty gallons is 
sufficiently strong. 
In preparing Paris green we dissolve it with 
lump lime, which neutralizes the acid and there- 
by lessens the danger of burning the fohage. 
Put ten ounces of Paris green over two pounds 
of lump lime. Pour over these two gallons of 
hot water. When it starts slaking stir to pre- 
vent burning. When cool add enough water to 
make forty gallons. When, however, Paris 
green is used in combination with Bordeaux mix- 
ture, ten ounces safely may be used. In this 
case but one pound of lime should be used over 
the Paris green. Bear in mind that this quantity 
is for use only in the case of strawberry plants; 
not for peach or plum trees. 
Bordeaux mixture is the most popular of the 
.sprays for fungous diseases, although liver of 
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