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HARRISONS’ NURSERIES, BERLIN, MD. 
Our Full Spraying Schedule is as Follows 
No. I. For San Jose scale, winter spray. Use standard concentrated 
lime-sulphur solution, at a strength of one gallon to seven to nine gallons 
of water. (See manufacturer’s printed instructions.) If bud moth and 
case-bearers are attacking the trees, mix three or four pounds of arsenate 
of lead with each fifty gallons of spray. Spray during the dormant period. 
If leaf-curl threatens the Peach trees, the standard lime-sulphur spray 
controls it, but do the spraying three to four weeks before the trees are 
expected to bloom; this controls both scale and leaf-curl. 
No. 2. For curculio, scab and brown-rot. Spray just before the petals 
fall. Use one and one-half pounds of arsenate of lead to fifty gallons of 
water. To this mixture add the milk of lime, made by slaking three 
pounds of stone lime in three to four gallons of water, and straining out 
the coarse stuff. 
No. 3. For curculio, scab and brown-rot, second dose. Spray ten days 
after the blossom petals fall. Use self-boiled lime-sulphur (made from 
eight pounds of stone lime and eight pounds of sulphur to fifty gallons of 
water). If curculio still threatens, add one and one-half pounds of arsenate 
of lead. 
No. 4. For scab and brown-rot. Spray thirty days before fruit ripens. 
Use self-boiled lime-sulphur. If aphides attack the trees, either leaves or 
roots, spray with tobacco solution (“Black-leaf 40”). Follow the directions 
on the cans. Black-leaf 40 can be secured from most manufacturers of 
spraying material. 
Cultivation. The entire orchard is disked, harrowed and smoothed 
about every week from the first of March to the middle of July. Trees 
are examined for borers four times during the year. 
We believe in early and thorough cultivation, until about July 15. We 
then stop cultivating and sow with cowpeas, soy beans, or some cover- 
crop, if possible, to allow the wood to 
ripen thoroughly for the winter. 
We watch carefully the condition of our 
trees and fertilize with commercial fertil¬ 
izers, in quantity and analysis to suit the 
need, _ using cover-crops to protect the 
land in the winter, which, when turned 
under in early spring, add humus to the 
soil. We depend more on thorough culti¬ 
vation than on fertilizers. 
If you don’t already have an orchards, 
plant one without further delay. Ten 
acres of land planted to peach or apple 
trees will pay you more net profit than 
ten times that acreage will in most cases 
pay when planted to the usual farm crops, 
and with considerably less labor. 
Flave you taken the time to figure how 
much money invested at 6 per cent would 
earn $43,000.00 in two years? Take the 
time now, and you will find that a 100-acre 
orchard four years old (many of the trees 
in our orchard were that age in 1913) is 
capable of paying a yearly dividend which 
The right time to spray for would be equal to 6 per cent interest on a 
codlin-moth—petals fallen $358,333.00 investment. 
