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Come to the Six Southern States S 
From VIRGINIA'S Peanut 
Fields, thru the CAROLINA’S 
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J. A. Pride, Gen. lad. Agt., 
Seaboard Air Line Ry. 
Suite 606 Norfolk, Va. 
CULTURE OF ASTERS. 
Fig. 187 shows a bouquet of Asters picked 
from one of my flower beds, and I think 
readers may like to hear my method of 
raising such nice large blossoms, and also 
how I keep my plants free from the black 
beetle, which appears on the blossoms just 
as they are coming open, and will com¬ 
pletely eat them up, if not destroyed in 
some way very soon. I work the soil up 
well in the bed where I wish to put them, 
and give it a good top-dressing of well- 
rotted cow-stable manure. I then rake 
this into the soil, and my bed is ready for 
the young plants. 
I set my plants from 10 to 12 inches 
apart, and keep the ground well loosened 
up between the plants just as long as I 
A BOWL OF ASTERS. Fig. 187. 
can work around them without danger of 
breaking them down as the plants com¬ 
mence branching out. I watch them close¬ 
ly as the buds commence to break open, 
as this is the time the beetles will appear 
if they come at all, and they almost al¬ 
ways have more or less each year. The 
first ones I see never have a chance to eat 
more than one meal at the most. I take 
a watering pot and put a good big tea- 
spoonful of Paris green to each gallon of 
water, and spray my plants with it and 
the beetles disappear with the one spray¬ 
ing and never appear again that year. 
This has never failed with me, and I al¬ 
ways have very line Asters as is shown in 
the picture, many of them measuring four 
and five inches in diameter. 
ELEANOR JONES. 
BRIEF SPRAYING NOTES. 
We have just passed through one of the 
worst seasons for the propagation of the 
scale since 'it first became one of our in¬ 
sect pests. There are few new things con¬ 
nected with our spraying for scale at the 
present time; for that reason many think 
there is nothing to say on the subject. 
Yet I believe we may profitably go over 
some of the old things at this time, be¬ 
cause I am of the belief that the large 
numbers of scale present nearly everywhere 
tins Spring are not due entirely to the fact 
that it has been a good breeding year, for 
surely if there had been no scale on the 
trees there could have been no offspring. 
Therefore we are led to believe that the 
trouble was primarily too many scale left 
last Spring because of poor application. I 
find many people have peculiar ideas of 
what a good application means. For in¬ 
stance, a man last Winter insisted he had 
sprayed his orchard well, and then went 
on to say he had used two whole barrels 
of spray on it. Now one of the first things 
we must get firmly fixed in our minds before 
we can do a good job spraying for scale 
is the size of the insect, which is not much 
larger sometimes than the point of a pin, 
and then see that no place as large as that 
is missed (for where one is left, it probably 
will mean thousands by the end of the sea¬ 
son). Now some quickly figure this is im¬ 
possible and give up. I surely do not wish 
anyone to feel that way about it. The 
thing really necessary, however, in every 
ease is to do the very best job one knows 
how, and you will be surprised to find what 
good results will be secured. And surely 
anyone working along these lines will never 
do as I have often seen done; leave places 
all over the trees large as your arm which 
have not been touched in the application. 
The amount of material will of course de¬ 
pend on the size of the trees. I use more 
than most people; for trees 10 years grown 
and of good average size we have not been 
able to do a satisfactory job with less than 
three to four gallons per tree, ana three to 
four times that for trees 30 to 3b years. 
Another source of disappointment is often 
not strength enough of mixture. It is not 
safe to use a greater dilution for scale 
work than one to eight, and yet I find in 
most sections they are using one to nine, 
nnd in many one to 11. These of course 
are based upon a 33° lime-sulphur mixture 
or concentrate. I am sorry so much has 
been said about reducing one to 11 for 
blister mite. It only takes a little more 
materia], and no more time to make an 
application of one to eight. If there is any 
chance of San Josii scale being in the or¬ 
chard no one can afford to do without this 
application. If there is not, then because 
of other scale insects, fungus diseases, etc., 
it will still pay to make the application at 
this strength in most orchards. It would 
seem then that our problem this Spring is 
uat much different from what it has been. 
The thing that apears logical at this time 
for every fruit grower who has the best 
interests of his orchards at heart is, use 
lime-sulphur at good strength and make 
thorough applications. wm. hotaling. 
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333 N. Water St.. 
•y Rochester, N.Y. 
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Disc Harrow 
will do a grade of work impossible with any other. The draft is very low and direct, hence 
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“HORSE-SHOE” SPRING-TOOTH HARROW 
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