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THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
March 2, 
ONE APPLE TREE $71.25. 
The apple tree shown at Fig. 90. page 
261, is owned by Mr. Frank Howard of 
Berriam Co., Mich. This tree is 61 
years old. In 1911 it yielded 28^4 bar¬ 
rels of apples which brought $71.25 for 
along the cones at the axils of the buds 
and on the wires and posts of the trellis, 
and then act quickly. If the vineyard 
is infested regularly he may spray a 
short time before its presence is ob¬ 
served. Some growers with but small 
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A TRACTION SPRAYER FOR GRAPES. Fig. 95. 
the tree. The orchard in which this tree 
stands contains in all 51 trees—61 years 
old. Last Fall this orchard gave 732 
barrels of apples which sold for $1,830. 
Not bad for about \ x / 2 acres of old trees. 
But these trees are well cared for. They 
were sprayed nine times during the sea¬ 
son with lime-sulphur and with Bor¬ 
deaux and poison. The fruit ought to 
grow with such care. The picture shows 
a Summer spraying and you may be 
sure it was well and thoroughly done. 
THE SPRAYING OF GRAPES. 
Grapes are sprayed for the control of 
insects and fungus diseases, and the 
results obtained are commensurate with 
the timeliness and thoroughness of the 
operation, as with other fruits. The 
materials used and the spray machinery 
are more or less distinct from that em¬ 
ployed in orchard spraying. There are 
four general types of spray rigs used 
for grapes, viz., the hand barrel pump 
mounted on an ordinary grape truck, 
used only for small plantations, but 
very valuable for mixed plantations of 
tree and bush fruits; second, the two- 
wheeled traction sprayer, with three 
fixed nozzles on a side, which can be 
fixed at various angles. Here the 
power is developed from the wheels, 
and must be kept in motion to keep up 
the desired pressure. Usually this type 
is provided with a tank holding 100 
gallons of the desired mixture. This 
type is illustrated by the accompanying- 
photograph, Fig. 95. As will be seen this 
sprays the adjacent sides of two rows, 
and with fairly level land and a con¬ 
venient water supply one rig will spray 
from eight to 10 acres a day. The 
third type is the two-wheeled outfit 
fitted with a gasoline engine. This is 
considered a very satisfactory outfit, as 
it can be used for spraying small plan¬ 
tations of tree fruits when not too tall, 
while the traction sprayer is unsuited 
for such work, as the frequent stops 
necessary render it impossible to keep 
up a satisfactory pressure. The fourth 
and last type of vineyard sprayer is 
the compressed air one. As yet 
this is not used very extensively in 
vineyard work. It has the advantage 
of some of the above mentioned, that it 
can be utilized for orchard work also. 
So far as observed there is hut one 
dormant spray required for the grape. 
This is not a lime sulfur spray, as is 
the common one with most tree fruits, 
but simply a poison for the control of 
the Steely beetle. The requirement of 
such a spraying is usually limited to 
vineyards abutting woodlands or head¬ 
lands that have grown up to weeds and 
underbrush. This insect appears on the 
warm sunny days of Spring, and chews 
its way into the dormant Winter buds. 
This injury results in the failure of the 
buds to open, hence the year’s crop will 
be proportioned to the number of buds 
burrowed so far as this insect is con¬ 
cerned. There are usually some buds 
oq each cone that fail to develop, due 
to other causes, so that the injury from 
this pest increases the danger of crop 
failure. It has been demonstrated that 
the adult stage of this beetle can he 
largely controlled when first observed 
upon the cones by spraying with a 
mixture of arsenate of lead and water 
at the rate of two pounds of lead for 
each 50 gallons of water, care being 
taken to coat the buds thoroughly with 
the spray. The grower should look 
carefully for a small blue-black beetle 
infested acreages pick them off by 
hand into a pan of kerosene and burn, 
but this is very laborious and uncertain 
for large acreages. f. e. gladwin. 
Geneva (N. Y.), Exp. Station. 
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