FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL NURSERY STOCK 
HOW TO SPRAY PEACH TREES 
No. 1. For San Jose scale. Spray during the dor¬ 
mant period, as directed for apples, using the same 
material at the same strength. If leaf-curl threatens 
the peach trees, apply the standard lime-sulphur 
spray as for San Jose scale, but do the spraying 
three to four weeks before the trees are expectecL to 
bloom—not earlier or later. This controls both 
scale and leaf-curl. 
No. 2. For curculio, scab and brown-rot. Spray 
just before the petals fall. Use one and a 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 blossoms petals fall. 
Use self-boiled lime-sulphur. If curculio still threat¬ 
ens, add one and a 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 aphis attacks the trees, either leaves or roots, spray with tobacco solution (black-leaf 40). You will 
have to buy this solution. Follow the directions on the cans. 
Peach-leaf curl in May or June. Spray before leaves 
come out in spring to control it. 
What Apple- and Peach-Growing Actually Pays 
One apple tree will bring in more net profit than 
an acre of hay. Two apple trees will bring in more 
net money than an acre of grain. Three apple trees 
will clear more than an acre of potatoes. 
Each acre of apples, planted to proper varieties, 
with one hundred trees, including fillers, and which 
is cultivated rightly, the trees pruned rightly and 
sprayed rightly, should pay back all its cost within 
six or seven years from planting. The eighth year 
it should yield a net profit of at least $50.00. The 
tenth year it should net $100.00. The fifteenth 
year, $250.00. These figures are clear, after the 
expenses for cultivating, pruning, spraying, har¬ 
vesting and selling have been paid out of the gross 
receipts for fruit sold. 
Peaches pay well, too, and they begin sooner 
than apples. They are not so sure to yield big 
profits every year. In their fourth summer, peach 
trees should yield a heavy crop. Not every season 
brings a full crop. In fact, though most of our 
orchards do better, we base our expectations on 
getting a crop only every other year. But each of 
these full crops nets $250.00 or more an acre, 
and, with the same good care that apple trees 
require, the trees are good for three to six, or more, 
such crops. 
Now the farmer who can see in these plain state¬ 
ments something definite as he reads, is going to 
realize a fistful of money if he acts. It is foolish to 
stick to grain and hay, when the same work on 
your own land will yield five to ten times as much 
money if applied to producing high-grade peaches 
or apples. Don’t let traditions and habits and 
your grandfather’s ideas hold you in the old grain- 
and-hay-and-stock rut. Don’t stop to try to figure 
out why apples and peaches grown on a certain 
acre clear more money than general crops on the 
same acre. Just open your eyes. See for yourself 
that they do pay more. Hundreds of orchardists 
are going ahead quietly and getting the profits. 
What’s the use in doubting or trying to figure that 
it may not work, when it is working now. 
