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Spraying for Blotch; Grafting Wealthy 
1. What spray is necessary and when 
should it be applied to control blotch on 
the McIntosh? 2. Would you advise 
grafting Wealthy, which is found unde¬ 
sirable? Trees are in Southern Maine. 
State Farm, Mass. f. l. c. 
1. If by “blotch'’ is means scab fungus, 
spraying must be continued through the 
season in Southern Maine to insure pro¬ 
tection for McIntosh. The dormant 
spray is necessary either in the Fail after 
apples are picked or in April, before 
growth starts. This should be of lime- 
sulpluir. The pink spray of lime- 
sulpluir and the insecticide, the codling 
moth spray of the same, just as soon as 
three-fourths of the petals have dropped; 
another in three to four weeks of the, 
same, and a fourth in August. In the 
last the amount of the insecticide may 
be reduced, and in the last four it will 
be well to add Black-leaf 40. In Central 
Maine the last of these sprayings may not 
be required, depending on weather con¬ 
ditions. Near or on the seaboard extra 
precautions must be taken to insure pro¬ 
tection. b 
2. 'File Wealthy is not a long-lived tree, 
and if well fed and sprayed requires only 
that the fruit lie thinned in July for the j 
crop to be very profitable. I question j 
the advisability of grafting. Instead. I 
would apply 10 lbs. of acid phosphate per 
tree, broadcast ou tin* grass, but not 
within four feet of the trunk, hoping, 
thereby to check dropping: then by 
breaking every cluster and leaving but 
one apple every six inches, I should ex¬ 
pect to increase the yield. The apples 
removed in thinning I would carefully 
pick tip and feed to the hogs, if not large 
enough to sell as early c-ooking apples. 
Maine markets do not favor the Wealthy, 
but my experience is that this apple sells 
well in Boston, provided fruit has been 
thinned and given opportunity to color 
early. One condition leads to discour¬ 
agement. with this variety; when picking 
is delayed until the drop becomes general 
and the market is glutted. Limited ex¬ 
perience with a noil-arsenical dust lias 
forced the conviction that valuable time 
will be saved and freedom from scab and 
blight fungus enhanced when the liquid 
spray, aside from dormant, giv<*s way for 
dusting. G. 31. TWITCJ1ELL. 
Potato Fertilizing in Maine 
Noticing query of H. E. B.. page 316, 
regarding application of fertilizers to po¬ 
tatoes, I thought he and others might be 
interested in the common practice in this 
great potato county—Aroostook. Very 
few growers here apply less than one ton 
of commercial fertilizer per acre, .some 
2,500 lbs. and a few as high as 3.000 lbs. 
One ton is the common practice, and 
usually this is applied at time of planting. 
Different types of planters apply the fer¬ 
tilizer in variyug ways, but it enters the 
drill before the seed, and is mixed with 
the soil. The disks which cover the seed 
draw the earth and fertilizer up around 
and over the seed, so that when the roots 
start growth the fertilizer is available 
from all sides, ana underneath first where 
the roots naturally seek it. If soil con¬ 
ditions are right, there is little danger to 
seed where one ton is used and applied 
at one application, unless some deleterious 
substance is present 1a the fertilizer 
which should never be there. 
Some growers practice applying about 
one-half the amount used at time of plant¬ 
ing. the remainder at time of covering the 
young plants, which is at the time they 
are breaking ground all along the row. 
This is rather the better practice where 
more than 1,500 lbs. per acre is used. 
The potato plant wants plenty to eat 
from the moment it starts growth until 
top growth is completed. A 4-S-4 or 5-S-7 
are popular analyses of fertilizer used, 
though there are many brands and vary¬ 
ing analyses used. Some soils require 
more of one chemical than others to insure 
best results. In other words, some soils 
Contain naturally more potash or phos¬ 
phoric acid than others, if made avail¬ 
able by thorough tillage. If good, well- 
cared-for farm manure is used, or clover 
plowed under, less commercial nitrogen 
would he required. Here we plant as early 
as ground can be worked iu right con¬ 
dition, and then force growth as rapidly 
us possible by thorough tillage as loug as 
tops will permit working, and spray, 
spray, spray. o. B. G. ‘ 
Aroostook Co., Me. 
Honey Beats the Sugar Trust 
(Continued from page 5SS) 
at nightfall after being extracted, or in i 
a short time then "'ill be destroyed by 
ira.r moth. If at any time there are anv 
drawn combs standing in hive bodies, 
either during Summer or Winter examine 
them every few weeks, especially in the 
Summer and Autumn . for the larvae of 
the wax moth. If any are noticed, pile 
all the bodies up on top of the other with 
an empty super on top and put a saucer 
of carbon bisulphide on top and cover 
closely. Keep fire or lamps away from 
that vicinity for some time afterward, as 
the fumes of this chemical are very in- 
flammable, (loud combs are worth nimiev 
and this is the only way you can be 
sure they will be preserved. Mice also 
are very destructive if they have an on- ! 
port unity to get at them. E.J. w. I 
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