1910. 
FUNGUS AND CODLING MOTH CONTROL. 
It is often a puzzling matter to know 
just when to spray apple trees for the 
control of the various pests to which 
they are subject. The clearest descrip¬ 
tion of this that we have seen is in the 
FIRST DOSE OF BORDEAUX. Ftg. 241. 
pictures printed on this page, taken 
from a bulletin of the Wisconsin Sta¬ 
tion. Fig. 241 shows when the first ap¬ 
plication of Bordeaux should be made, 
before the blossoms open. In Fig. 242 
RIGHT FOR BORDEAUX AXD ARSENATE 
Fig. 242. 
the blossoms have just fallen and the 
time is right for adding arsenate of lead 
(two to three pounds to 50 gallons of 
water) to the Bordeaux. This takes 
care of the first brood of Codling moths. 
SECOND DOSE OF BORDEAUX AND 
ARSENATE. Fig. 243. 
About two months after this the apples 
will look like Fig. 243, and another ap¬ 
plication of Bordeaux and lead arsenate 
will be needed for the later brood of 
Codling moths. 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
685 
Club-foot in Cabbage. 
•7. .1/. P., Hudson, Mass .— I am a cabbage 
raiser ou a small scale, raising about 4,000 
heads a year. Now I cannot raise them 
without club-foot. I used to raise them 
on this same land all right. All farm 
papers say ‘‘don't plant seed on infected 
soil.” How am I to tell when soil is in¬ 
fected ? 
Axs.—Club-foot is a disease which 
attacks turnips, cabbage, cauliflower and 
similar plants. "Infected soil” contains 
the germs of the disease from previous 
crops. Remember that they may came 
from turnips as well as cabbage, and 
they will remain alive in the soil two 
or three years. Cabbage should not be 
planted on soil that has had crops of 
the same family for three years if you 
wish to be sure. We have known 
farmers to make the mistake of sowing 
the seed in the garden where turnips 
had been grown for years. Thus the 
young plants or seedlings were infected 
before the}' were planted out. It was 
an old custom to plant cabbage seed 
after burning a pile of brush. Grown 
in the ashes the plants rarely suffered 
from club-foot. The action of fire de¬ 
stroyed germs and the lime in the ashes 
helped. Lime is the best preventive. 
Cabbage ground should be well limed 
before planting, or heavy dressings of 
lime should be put along the rows. 
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grass and weeds cut along the line much 
better than in the past. I believe if per¬ 
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would take like, precautions very many of 
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Again, many of the fires are caused by care¬ 
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l.ttle breeze and you soon have a fire that 
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the night to subdue. Small boys playing 
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Another cause is the clearing of ground by 
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aud away it goes. If every able-bodied 
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County Board of Supervisors seems to be 
very remiss in their duty as fire wardens. 
Let. the Legislature give us a law like 
Massachusetts and enforce the same, and 
forest fires on Long Island will be a thing 
of the past. 
f. e. x. 
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