WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE SUPPLEMENT 
4 
Formula for Home Garden. 
40% nicotine sulphate 1 teaspoonful 
Soapy Water 1 gallon 
Kerosene Emulsion 
Kerosene emulsion is not recommended owing to the danger of burn- 
ing the foliage. If nicotine preparation cannot be secured it may be 
used against plant lice. 
Slake the stock solution as follows: Dissolve % pound hard soap 
in 1 gallon boiling water. While still boiling hot add 2 gallons kero- 
sene. With a small sprayer, pump the mixture back into itself until 
a creamy mass results. Set aside until cold. 
April, 19-19 
dred acres of apples and cherries 
have already been made profit- 
able. The details of the spraying 
used are given in another column 
of this supplement. 
Apple Grading 
Standardization is the slogan of 
reconstruction days. The benefits 
and value of standardized fruit 
have been so well demonstrated 
by the success of western orchards 
Spray after the pink of the bloom begins to 
show, from that time until the bloom is en- 
tirely out or rather until the first (central) 
flower of the cluster is out. This is our first 
spray. — Dunlap. 
'Then spray immediately after the first bloom 
falls.— Dunlap. 
Two other applications arc made later in the 
season. 
If pure kerosene has not separated from the mixture after standing, 
dilute for spraying by adding 10 gallons water to each gallon of stock 
solution. 
Lime Sulfur 
When scale insects cover the bark of orchard trees, they may be 
killed by using commercial concentrated lime-sulfur solution in the 
proportion of one gallon to eight gallons of water. This spray must 
be used on dormant trees only. 
FUNGICIDES FOR PLANT DISEASES 
Lime-sulfur 
Formula 
Lime-sulfur (commercial concentrated) U /2 gal 
Water ...... 50 gal. 
that eastern states are engaged in 
a race to pass standardization laws. 
The present session of the Wiscon- 
sin legislature will undoubtedly 
see provision made for the grad- 
ing of all horticultural and agri- 
cultural products, the only dispute 
being on the detailed administra- 
tion of the measure. 
Spraying and apple grading 
brought dividends last year to all 
those who took advantage of their 
opportunities. The difference be- 
tween the cost of raising culls and 
high grade apples is less than ten 
