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to strike, and .she came iu as strike man¬ 
ager. They cut out mince pie for break¬ 
fast and much other useless food, started 
eating cereals, baked apples and milk. 
How the old man did roar at these “spoon 
vittles,” but the women stood firm and 
mother got her needed rest. Then the 
young doctor came to see his girl, and her 
father poured out his woes and com¬ 
plaints to these willing ears. The old 
man had tried all the doctors around 
about, and all the patent medicines he 
could find, but that “misery in his stom¬ 
ach” kept up—while he continued to eat 
so much mince pie ;yul stuff. With a per¬ 
fectly straight face the young doctor 
mixed him a dose of water, molasses, vin¬ 
egar and some bitter but harmless drug. 
The vitamines in the molasses might help 
him, but that was all the effect it could 
have. Still, he actually improved and 
got well! What cured him was "cutting 
out the mince pie and rich stuff and living 
on cereals, fruit, vegetables and milk, but 
the old man did not realize it, and insisted 
that this wonderful young doctor had 
cured him. He gave his daughter a fine 
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There was one strike that succeeded—in 
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II. \v. c. 
Controlling Woolly Aphis 
I have the white woolly aphis in my or¬ 
chard : it is mostly to be seen where the 
locusts stung the trees. Do you know of 
any spray material to use for it? w. R. 
So. Cumberland, Md. 
The woolly aphis delights to cluster in 
wounds that it finds in the bark of apple 
trees. The aphids are usually present 
around the edges of scars where a limb 
has been cut off. or. as the correspondent 
says, about the scars made by the 17- 
year locust in laying its eggs. It is at 
such places that the aphids find new ten¬ 
der bark into which they can force then- 
tiny beaks and suck out the sap. 
The woolly aphis of the apple occurs in 
two very different situations on an in¬ 
fected tree. Some of the lice will be 
found on the trunk and branches, as I 
have just pointed out, while others will be 
found on the roots of the tree under¬ 
ground. These underground individuals 
are often overlooked, and their presence is 
unsuspected. From the sandy soils of 
Southern New Jersey and of Maryland 
on down to the Gulf of Mexico the woolly 
aphis is one of the serious apple pests, 
and the individuals underground on the 
roots are much moi-e injurious than the 
ones on the branches. In fact, if the only 
woolly aphids on a tree are those above 
ground and if none of these would go 
down to the roots, there would be no 
great need, probably, of spraying for this 
pest. However, when these white, cot¬ 
tony lice are noticed on the branches of 
the tree it is a pretty sure sign that 
there are also some on the roots, or if not 
on the roots already that they soon will 
l>e there. In these lie the danger, for they 
attack and destroy the small feeding 
roots, thus cheeking the growth of the 
tree and perhaps eventually causing its 
death. 
The woolly aphids on the branches 
above ground can probably best be con¬ 
trolled by spraying with a 20 to 25 per 
cent kerosene emulsion during the Fall or 
Winter while the tree is dormant. This 
is made by dissolving 1 lb. of hard soap 
in two gallons of rainwater or soft water, 
and then adding four gallons of kerosene 
oil while the water is hot. The mixture 
should be poured at once while hot into 
the barrel or spray tank, and the liquid 
itself until a white 
formed. This emul- 
diluted by adding 14 
it. to form a 20 per 
cent solution. If possible, it is best to 
spray this on the trees while hot. because 
a hot emulsion more easily penetrates the 
white, cottony threads on the lice, and 
reaches the bodies of the insects. Whale- 
nil soap has been used considerably for 
fighting the woolly aphis, but an oil emul¬ 
sion is more effective because it creeps in 
among the cottony threads more easily 
and gets in contact with the bodies of 
the aphids. The miscible oils are also 
sometimes used for this purpose. If a 
file of The R. N.-Y. is at hand, directions 
for fighting the woolly aphis on the roots 
of apple trees will be found on page ITS 
of the issue for February 17. 1012. 
OLEXX \V. HERRICK. 
pumped back into 
creamy emulsion is 
sinn should then be 
gallons of water to 
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Callicarpa or French Mulberry 
On page 1719 Prof. Massey mentions 
having received some berries of Callicarpa 
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