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Dusting  Apples 
Farmers  want,  to  know  what  the  value 
of  dusting  is  to  the  man  who  is  growing 
apples  for  profit.  They  seem  to  prefer 
the  opinion  of  a  grower  who  has  dusted, 
to  the  carefully  prepared  figures  of  the 
experiment  station,  which  are  really  more 
accurate  and  of  more  value  than  the  ex¬ 
perience  and  opinion  of  any  grower. 
Here  is  the  opinion  of  a  grower  who 
dusted  about  75  acres  of  apples  in  1915. 
Growers  Dike  It. — I  dusted  about  75 
acres  of  apples  of  all  sizes  and  ages,  and 
of  several  varieties,  in  1915.  In  1910  I 
am  going  to  depend  entirely  on  dust  for 
the  control  of  apple  scab  and  Codling 
moth,  and  will  only  spray  enough  trees 
to  give  me  a  check  on  the  results.  I  have 
talked  with  or  heard  indirectly  from  12 
growers  who  dusted  apples  in  1915,  and 
they  are  till  going  to  continue  dusting.  I 
tions.  The  lead  is  for  insects  and  the 
gypsum  is  used  to  dilute  the  mixture. 
Why  Dust  Sticks. — The  dust  is  so 
fine  that  it  lodges  among  the  fine  hairs  on 
the  leaves  and  blossom  parts.  A  little 
moisture  from  the  air  or  rain  sets  it,  and 
makes  it  stick  on  longer,  and  careful  ex¬ 
aminations  show  little  or  no  loss  from 
wind  or  rain.  Dust  applied  when  the 
trees  are  dry  gives  as  good  protection  as 
that  applied  when  the  trees  are  damp  or 
as  the  liquid  spray. 
Where  Dust  Has  Not  Been  Used.— 
So  far  no  extensive  work  has  been  clone 
with  dust  to  control  scale,  peach  leaf- 
curl,  brown  rot,  aphis,  pear  psylla.  pear 
tlirips  or  red  bug.  Work  is  being  done  in 
this  field,  and  doubtless  we  will  soon  see 
dusts  and  dusters  used  successfully  for  all 
or  nearly  all  of  the  above  named  pests. 
At  present,  however,  most  growers  bad 
Weak,  Medium  and  Vigorous  Peach  Twigs.  See  page  429 
have  not  heard  of  one  man  who  has  dusted 
who  is  going  to  give  it  up  and  go  back  to 
spraying  where  dust  can  be  used.  The 
apples  I  dusted  were  uniformly  good  and 
free  from  scab  and  worms. 
What  Is  Dusting/ — Dusting  is  sim¬ 
ply  blowing  a  fungicide  or  poison  onto 
the  tree  in  a  dry  dust  instead  of  spraying 
it  on  with  water  used  as  n  carrier.  The 
dust  mixture  used  and  the  time  of  appli¬ 
cation  must  be  chosen  with  regard  to  the 
insect  or  fungus  to  be  fought  and  the  con¬ 
dition  of  the  tree,  just  as  in  the  use  of  dif¬ 
ferent  spray  mixtures. 
Dusting  vs.  Straying. — Dusting  has 
four  great  advantages  over  spraying : 
1.  The  machine  is  lighter  and  less  com¬ 
plicated  than  a  spray  rtg  and  can  be  used 
on  steep  rough  ground  or  on  wet  land 
where  it  is  difficult  to  operate  a  spray  rig 
2.  The  materials  are  less  bulky,  and 
cost  but  a  trifle  more  than  the  same  ma¬ 
terials  for  spraying.  No  water  is  needed 
and  a  sufficient  supply  of  dust  for  a  half 
day's  work  can  be  easily  carried  on  the 
wagon. 
3.  It  saves  time  and  labor.  Dust  can 
be  applied  five  times  as  fast  as  liquid 
spray  without  taking  into  account  engine 
trouble  or  the  time  required  for  refilling. 
With  the  duster  10  minutes  is  usually  re¬ 
quired  to  fill  and  oil  up.  and  it  is  not 
necessary  to  stop  the  engine.  With  the 
spray  rig  the  time  for  filling  usually  is  as 
great  as  the  time  spent  in  spraying  and 
the  tank  has  to  be  tilled  more  often  than 
the  duster. 
4.  The  dust  can  be  distributed  better 
over  the  tree  than  liquid,  and  except  m 
cases  where  the  utmost  care  and  thor¬ 
oughness  are  used  in  spraying  the  dust 
will  give  more  uniform  and  better  results 
What  Is  Dust  Good  For? — The  dust, 
mixtures  used  so  far  have  been  lime,  sul¬ 
phur,  and  arsenate  of  lead.  Gypsum  is 
the  form  of  lime  used  most.  This  dust  is 
good  to  prevent  scab  or  fungus  attacks 
and  for  chewing  insects  such  as  leaf-roller, 
apple-tree  tent-caterpillar  and  Codling 
moth.  The  mixtures  vary  from  90  pounds 
sulphur  and  10  pounds  arsenate  of  lead, 
to  50  pounds  gypsum,  35  pounds  sulphur 
and  15  pounds  arsenate  of  lead.  The  sul¬ 
phur  content  is  increased  or  decreased, 
according  to  the  danger  of  fungus  infee- 
better  use  the  old  spraying  for  scale  and 
to  drench  the  red  bug  and  aphis  with 
Black  Leaf  40. 
Who  Sham,  Dust? — The  man  who 
finds  difficulty  in  covering  his  orchard  in 
time  to  prevent  scab  infections  or  during 
the  short  time  the  blossom  end  of  the  ap¬ 
ple  is  open,  the  man  who  values  time  and 
labor  more  than  the  small  investment 
(about  ,$100)  required  to  get  a  duster 
and  the  man  who  has  steep  side  hills,  or 
rough  or  swampy  ground,  where  a  heavy 
sprayer  is  hard  to  operate,  should  use 
dust  to  protect  his  trees.  Cornell  Bulletin 
309  gives  the  details  of  dusting  experi¬ 
ments  hist  year,  and  can  be  secured  by 
any  grower.  E.  w.  MITCHELL. 
Spraying  Notes  from  Illinois 
Last  year  was,  on  account  of  the  wet 
weather  during  the  latter  part  of  May 
and  June,  favorable  to  the  development 
of  blotch,  which,  under  congenial  condi¬ 
tion!;  causer;  severe  damage  to  uusprayed 
fniit  in  southern  Illinois,  Liiue-sulphur 
gave  very  favorable  results  in  its  cou- 
troh  This  fungicide  has  proved  its  ef¬ 
ficiency  against  this  fungus  quite  con¬ 
clusively.  Senator  Dunlap  and  sev¬ 
eral  other  large  growers  used  lime-sul- 
phui  exclusively  in  some  of  their  or¬ 
chards,  and  obtained  much  finer  fruit 
than  where  Bordeaux  was  used.  On 
account  of  the  relative  inadhesiveness  of 
the  mixture  as  compared  with  Bordeaux, 
one  more  application  is  necessary  in  the 
spray  schedule  than  was  necessary  when 
Bordeaux  was  used,  in  cases  where  this 
fungus  is  to  be  combated.  The  Bor¬ 
deaux,  on  account  of  the  extremely  wet 
weather  rather  early  in  the  season, 
when  the  fruit  seems  to  he  capable  of  be¬ 
ing  mssetod  by  Bordeaux,  caused  ex 
ceptionally  severe  injury. 
There  is  danger  of  burning  the  fruit 
by  using  drenching  applications  of 
lime-sulphur  in  hot  weather.  On 
this  account  the  applications  under 
these  conditions  should  be  thoroughly 
distributed,  hut  light.  There  is  little 
danger  of  burning  the  fruit  by  the  use 
of  lime-sulphur  early  in  the  season.  The 
only  danger  of  injury  to  the  foliage  is 
when  if  has  already  been  damaged  by 
seal).  There  has  been  no  doubt  for 
some  time  that  lime-sulphur  should  he 
used  in  those  parts  of  the  State,  includ¬ 
ing  the  central-western  and  northern 
parts,  when1  scab  is  the  principal  fungus 
to  be  combated.  In  each  application 
of  bine-sulphur  arsenate  of  lead  is  used 
to  combat  insects.  It  imparts  to  the 
lime-sulphur,  also,  a  somewhat  greater 
fungicidal  value.  warren  a,  ruth 
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Baldwin  Apple 
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