Dipping Nursery Stock in “Scalecide” 
MIG ATI ON of nursery 
stock has been required by 
most States. This is often 
attended with great dam¬ 
age to the trees and loss 
to the nurseryman in repu¬ 
tation if nothing else. 
We have seen a nur¬ 
sery certificate which reads 
as follows: 
"Destroy at once all 
badly infested stock. Fumi¬ 
gate with Hydrocyanic 
Acid gas or dip in 
‘SCALECIDE’ or other suitable soluble oil 
all other trees in the block when dug for sale 
or shipment. Spray with ‘SCALECIDE’ or 
other soluble o ; l (1 to 15) all remaining trees.” 
Mess. H. J. Weber & Sons Co., of Nur¬ 
sery, Mo., have dipped all of their stock in 
“SCALECIDE” for a number of years and 
positively refuse to fumigate except at the 
customer’s risk. 
There is no necessity of dipping the roots 
of trees except where some disease or insect 
is liable to attack the roots, such as the woolly 
aphis on Apple and Pear trees. Peaches and 
Plums should be dipped to the roots. (See 
directions for dipping citrus trees on the pre¬ 
ceding page.) 
We believe that very soon some uniform 
laws should be passed similar to the above, 
possibly doing away with fumigation alto¬ 
gether. When nurserymen realize how very 
easy it is to dip, and appreciate how effectually 
the stock is rid of scale, aphis and fungous dis¬ 
eases, they will use nothing else. 
If the stock is small, add 2 and one-half 
gallons of "SCALECIDE” to a 50-gallon barrel of 
water. First dip the top and then the roots. 
Shake them in the mixture for about a minute. 
If the stock is very large, a vat or trough may 
be used being very careful that every particle 
of the stock is thoroughly wetted. Nursery 
stock sprayed with "SCALECIDE will show 
greater and more luxuriant growth than when 
sprayed with Lime-Sulphur and does not dis¬ 
figure the stock. 
"SCALECIDE” will keep . indefinitely 
after being mixed up if not allowed to freeze. 
After dipping a lot of stock, or after a 
slight freeze, some free oil may appear on 
top. This should be skimmed off and a little 
fresh “SCALECIDE” added. If this precau¬ 
tion is observed, it is absolutely impossible to 
injure dormant stock by dipping in “SCALE¬ 
CIDE.” I have seen two Pear trees that were 
dipped in “SCALECIDE , 1 to 15 or 20, and 
the roots left standing in the mixture for two 
days before planting out and with no result¬ 
ing injury whatsoever. 
Many fruit growers and experts who have 
had little or no experience with “SCALE¬ 
CIDE” are apt to blame it for any unfavor¬ 
able condition of tree or fruit bud, especially 
if they don’t know what the real cause is. Just 
as some doctors used Malaria as a “scape 
goat” for their ignorance. 
If a tree is ever injured with “SCALE¬ 
CIDE” it is due to the grossest carelessness. 
Mr. Charles Black, of 
Hightstown, N. J., one of 
the best known nurserymen 
and fruit-growers in that 
State, writes: “Yours re¬ 
ceived and note what you 
say about injury to peach in 
Ohio by “SCALECIDE.” I 
used it on all ages of trees 
from the dormant buds in 
nursery and from October 
until April, and dipped 
young trees just budding out 
before planting, and no ap¬ 
parent injury to trees or buds, Mr - chas. black 
and from my experience of the treatment of 
many thousands of trees; I feel that the injury 
was from some other cause than "SCALECIDE.” 
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