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with the lime-sulphur and lead arsenate 
spray and thus makes it more effective in 
destroying aphids. It is not safe, how¬ 
ever, to add the soaps to such a mixture. 
But “Black Leaf 40” has its limitations. 
Apparently it is of little use in killing 
the cottony maple scale, which is rather 
abundant in some localities on soft ma¬ 
ples. For this purpose the oils are prom¬ 
ising. 
ARSENICAL SPRAYS.—Lead arsen¬ 
ate is still the standard poison for or¬ 
chard spraying. Three pounds of the 
paste, or half as much of the powder, 
should be used for a barrel of the mix¬ 
ture. In our experience at the Connecti¬ 
cut Station, dry powdered lead arsenate 
has given just about as good results as 
the paste. Both have been used alone 
and in combination with lime-sulphur and 
with Bordeaux mixture. This agrees 
with the experience of Dr. AY. E. Hinds 
of the Alabama Station, who has used 
large quantities of the poison, especially 
against cotton insects. For destroying 
the adults of the apple and cherry mag¬ 
gots. Mr. Illingworth, formerly of the 
Cornell Station, found that a sweetened 
arsenical mixture consisting of 2]/> 
pounds lead arsenate, l 1 /* gallon of cheap 
syrup to 50 gallons of water, sprayed 
upon the lower branches by hand. June 
10th and again June 24th. was effective. 
The fi ies were attracted by the syrup, ate 
the mixture and were killed by the poison. 
For treating the foliage and the fruit 
of the apple orchard, nothing is more ef¬ 
fective than freshly-made Bordeaux mix¬ 
ture and lead arsenate. Unfortunately 
trees so tender that one must be very 
careful with the handling of them? 
Colfax, Iowa. w. A. h. 
Probably the bursting of this tree was 
caused by the extreme cold weather. If 
these cuts started from the old wound, 
that may have caused part of the trouble. 
We seldom find this splitting in the sour 
varieties. Other kinds are sometimes 
split from the ground to the lower limbs. 
In most cases the tree recovers when the 
injury is not too deep. Resetting your 
tree probably caused part of the top to 
die. Perhaps you did not trim it enough 
when replanting. If it has recovered its 
vitality you could let it go; otherwise, we 
would plant a new tree. In the second 
case the wound should not be serious un¬ 
less it refuses to heal. In that case, 
there is probably a spot of dead wood un¬ 
derneath. If not too large, and the tree 
remains healthy, the bark will grow in 
from the outer edges and cover the whole. 
This tree is likely to live and bear for 
many years. It will probably not be a 
perfect tree, but may give a fair yield 
of fruit. These questions emphasize the 
necessity of care against bark injury. 
Wounds from a tool, unless cared for 
promptly, will often seriously injure the 
growth of the tree- Many of our best 
fruit growers no longer try to work the 
cultivators up close to the tree, but pre¬ 
fer to leave a strip about two feet wide 
to be worked down low by hand tools. 
Mixing Spray Materials. 
We have seen people who have a mania 
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certain varieties are russeted by the Bor¬ 
deaux, and this is the chief reason for 
using a dilute lime-sulphur instead. We 
may overcome this tendency in part, by 
using in the second and third treatments 
a weak Bordeaux, i. e., one pound of 
copper sulphate instead of four pounds, 
to four pounds of lime. In tests at the 
Virginia Station, a combination of two 
pounds of copper sulphate to a barrel of 
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Commercial lime-sulphur diluted at the 
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varieties which are russeted by Bordeaux- 
To this lime-sulphur, the lead arsenate 
should he added to kill the chewing in¬ 
sects. w. E. BRITTON. 
Conn. State Entomologist. 
Injured Cherry Trees. 
In i lie Spring, I planted an Early Rich¬ 
mond cherry tree. It seemed to thrive 
all right during the season. In 1912 T 
ran a wheelbarrow against the base of 
the tree, thereby loosening a patchof bark 
an inch long. I should judge. This 
seemed to heal over, and last year the 
bark seemed to burst open along the 
whole length of the trunk, and a now 
growth of bark came in this long slit. 
Now the new growth is well formed and 
still it comes in contact with the old 
bark. This tree was reset in the Spring 
of 1912, and part of the top died after 
resetting which was carefully trimmed 
away; the tree did not make much growth 
last year, although it seems to have 
caught up with its lost vitality. I have 
another cherry tree set in Spring of 1912 
which is doing well, but in the Fall of 
1912 I accidentally ran a wheel against 
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Some of them mix soft soap or lye with 
soluble oil or lime sulphur, put lime with 
oil. or try all sorts of combinations with 
standard materials. The result is usually 
a mixture which does not combine, and 
which causes considerable injury to the 
foliage or buds. The Colorado Experi¬ 
ment Station puts the case well as fol¬ 
lows : 
Many persons are likely to believe that 
because certain sprays are good separate¬ 
ly they are even better when combined. 
In our work we find quite a large number 
of men doing a great deal of mixing of 
their own. Investigations at various ex¬ 
periment stations has shown that this is 
often foolish and wasteful, that the mix¬ 
tures they make may be absolutely worth¬ 
less and that certain elements which are 
good when used separately may be made 
worthless when combined. 
The experiment stations and agricul¬ 
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Whole crops have been known to be 
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lye would be a benefit to his spray. 
Before deciding not to follow the re¬ 
commendations that has been worked out 
by years of investigation, it would be 
well to ask advice from some one of ex¬ 
perience what results might come from 
some of your own mixtures. 
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