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they kept better than they ever had be¬ 
fore. That settled us as far as spraying 
was concerned. We have never missed 
since, and don’t intend to. 
As to the different peach sprays, my 
advice would be to join your county 
board of agriculture or Farm Bureau. 
Ask your county agent to send you spray 
cards, telling you when and what to 
spray and what it will control. 
A word about grapes. Some seasons 
they will mildew. It can be controlled by 
spray with Bordeaux. That is probably 
the best and safest, but one morning on 
the market I was talking to an Italian 
about grapes, and he told me that they 
did not have any “stick grapes” in Italy ; 
that they dusted something yellow on 
them. He thought it was sulphur. Last 
year we dusted part of our vines with 
sulphur, but as there was very little mil¬ 
dew I cannot say whether it did any good 
or not. 
There is one more thing which I think 
is important to mention, and that is the 
new, or practically new, nicotine dust for 
the control of aphis or lice. It kills rn 
two ways. It is a contact dust, and gives 
off a gas which will kill insects when they 
breathe it. I think it will kill almost any 
kind of insect, but when you use it and 
the wind is blowing a little, do not walk 
in the dust or you will lose your dinner. 
We have used this dust to kill aphis on 
young apple trees and grapevines and 
have found that one application was 
enough. There are two different kinds erf 
filler used. Some concerns use hydrated 
lime and others use dolomite. To my 
mind dolomite is the best, but that is a 
matter of opinion. neal demarest. 
New Jersey. 
Dust vs. Spray for Cherries 
In the Hudson River Valley, in New 
York, are grown some of the finest cher¬ 
ries in the East. The men who are most 
active in the cherry business in that 
section, especially in Columbia County 
have worked out a system of spraying and 
dusting whereby they hold their cherries 
through an almost unbelievably long peri¬ 
od. It has often been debated whether 
dust or spray was the better. Now from 
Michigan comes a suggestion that will be 
of interest in this regard. 
Sour cherries were sprayed with Bor¬ 
deaux, sprayed with lime-sulphur, and 
dusted with sulphur dust. In 1922 the 
Montmorency cherries which were dusted 
were the largest of the three groups and 
were consequently rated 100 in size. The 
lime-sulphur sprayed cherries rated only 
90 on this basis, while the Bordeaux- 
sprayed cherries rated 87. The differences 
were even more striking with English Mo- 
rello. Where dusted cherries were re¬ 
garded as 100, lime-sulphur sprayed were 
but 83, while Bordeaux-sprayed were only 
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More profitable crops result from the use of 
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You can’t look at the ordinary 
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But Royster’s “cured’’ fertilizer is 
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Again in 1923 the experiments were re¬ 
peated. This time one lot was left un¬ 
treated. The size of the fruit was again 
examined with practically the same re¬ 
sults, namely, untreated cherries wme 
rated 100, dusted 95, lime-sulphur 
sprayed 85, and Bordeaux sprayed 63. 
The peculiarity of this condition led to 
further investigation. It was found that 
if shoots were cut from trees and placed 
in graduates filled with water that the 
shoots which had been sprayed with lime- 
sulphur lost 12 per cent more water than 
the unsprayed ones, while those which 
had been sprayed with Bordeaux lost 25 
per cent more. Moreover, in cases where 
leaves alone were sprayed and there were 
cherries on the shoots, the cherries shriv¬ 
eled as though the leaves were taking 
water from them. 
Why this should be is at first a puzzle 
until it is recalled that cherry leaves have 
a thin protecting covering of wax-like ma¬ 
terial which prevents excessive water loss. 
It is thought that the caustic Bordeaux 
mixture destroys this covering and that 
the result is an excessive transpiration 
and evaporation of water from* the foli¬ 
age, which is exhibited in the smaller size 
of the fruit. 
A word of warning must here be 
sounnded. It must be remembered that m 
some years it is better to have small cher¬ 
ries and less leaf spot than larger cherries 
and more leaf spot, h. b. t. ^ 
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