New YorK AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 385 
method of preparing a sulphur spray and is destined to be put to 
important uses. This mixture has two distinct advantages over the 
old formula: It may be prepared in concentrated solutions, to be 
diluted as needed; and it has no coarse sediment to clog the nozzles 
and to cause the rapid wearing out of the packing, lining and other 
parts of the pump. However, its employment for orchard treat- 
ment, except for the blister-mite, should be largely tentative as its 
utility for other pests has not been so thoroughly established. This 
mixture and the commercial preparations now enable many of our 
fruit growers to use a sulphur wash, who for the reasons given have 
refrained from using this spray, prepared by the old method. 
SULPHUR SPRAYS AND DIRECTIONS FOR THEIR USE. 
THE BOILED LIME-SULPHUR WASH. 
FORMULA. 
AT OPC ee Md ea ig ost oats \s has a/h iatele Moraeiee a 20 pounds 
SELES kw EEO a Ee rer er roars I5 pounds 
WE ete PENI Sa eC ERT eT ee a 50 gallons 
Place the lime and sulphur in the cooking receptable containing 
about fifteen to twenty gallons of water. ‘Stir the mixture fre- 
quently and boil for one hour. Add water to make the required 
amount of wash and strain through a fine brass wire strainer into 
the spraying tank. Applications should be made while the wash 
is warm. | 
HOME-MADE CONCENTRATED LIME-SULPHUR WASH, 
FORMULA. 
POUT) Dulin Care trees 42 tree dels, ele ean repabisle.a ne 5 60 pounds 
BPO Ue een sane a arte taeteitale tt. Ween pe as 9-4 3): 125 pounds 
VLEs Stine Werte acy cine ye SANIT S CMe eT. cis & 50 gallons 
Slake the lime in the cooking receptable and stir in the sulphur, 
which has been made into a thin paste with water. Add enough 
water to make about forty-five gallons of mixture, which should be 
boiled for one or more hours. After the cooking is completed al- 
low the wash to stand until the sediment has settled to the bottom, 
when the clear, brownish liquid should be drawn off. To this add 
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