1914. 
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THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
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Fostoria, O. 
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Ruralisms 
Fighting the Woolly Aphis. 
I have read that lime-sulphur solution 
is a potent remedy for the aphis that 
preys upon the roots of plants, but the 
writer did not specify what potency 
would be efficient, and yet safe to use, 
and not kill or injure the plants. Can 
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to lime-sulphur of 30 deg. to meet that 
want? w. it. L. 
Winterset, Iowa. 
Lime-sulplnir has been tried as a rem¬ 
edy for woolly aphis on the roots of fruit 
trees, and was found to be more detri¬ 
mental than beneficial. It damaged the 
roots. Dr. Edith M. Patch has shown 
that the woolly aphis of apple trees needs 
the elm to spend part of its life on. It 
migrates from the apple to the elm in 
the Fall, and returns to the apple in the 
Spring after it has worked on the elm 
leaves a while, causing elm leaf-curl. See 
Bulletins 217 and 220 of the Maine Ex¬ 
periment Station. So first get rid of the 
elms. Trees infested with woolly aphis 
should be treated as follows: Spray the 
tops with a 10-per-eent solution of kero¬ 
sene emulsion to kill such woolly aphis 
as are there. To clean the roots remove 
the soil about the trunk of small trees 
for a foot, large trees farther—but it is 
seldom a serious pest on large trees—• 
and put a liberal supply of tobacco dust 
on the ground and return the soil to 
its place. An experimenter in Georgia 
has used two to seven gallons of 10% 
kerosene emulsion, removing the soil as 
described above, and returning it imme¬ 
diately upon applying the emulsion. A | 
decoction of tobacco water can be used, 
or tobacco extracts liberally diluted will 
also work. The blue aphis on China As¬ 
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eral supply of wood ashes to the soil be¬ 
fore putting in the Asters. And then 
during the season examine the roots, and 
if aphis are found water the soil with a 
strong deeoetion of tobacco water made 
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corn root aphis—to rotate crops is the 
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The Cost of Grafting. —Grafting is 
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Method of Budding. 
In budding trees, is the cut in the 
stock cut through the inner bark so that 
the back of the bud comes in contact with 
the wood, or is it just through the outer 
bark? I have tried the bud placed under 
the outer bark, but have had no success. 
C. C. H. 
Iu budding two cuts are made iu the 
stock entirely through the bark, and iu 
the form of a T. The corners of bark 
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little strip of hark which carries the hud 
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The whole cut should then be wound 
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Early the next Spring the stock is cut 
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