Spray No. 3—Calyx Spray or Shuck Spray 
(When. the shucks are falling from the young 
fruit that are going to set.) 
Materail: Lead Arsenate 1!4 tablespoonful, plus 
2 or 3 tablespoonfuls of hydrated lime to the gal- 
lon of water or diluted spray mixture, for chewing 
insects; and add nicotine sulphate 1 teaspoonful to 
the gallon of water or spray mixture to control 
sucking insects. 
Spray No. 4—Summer Spray 
(Two or three weeks before the fruit ripens) 
Material: Wettable Sulphur and Water. 
Control: Brown rot and scab. 
PEAR SPRAY 
Spray No. 1—Dormant Spray 
(Early in the spring when the flies appear on the 
twigs and are ready to lay eggs and the buds are 
not yet showing green.) 
Material—3% oil emulsion; or 1 - 15 miscible oil. 
Control: Scale. 
Spray No. 2—Pre-Blossom Spray 
(When the blossom buds begin to separate in the 
cluster. ) 
Material: Lime Sulphur and Water. 
Control: Scab 
Spray No. 3—Calyx Spray 
(As the last of the petals are falling.) 
Material: Lime Sulphur, water, Lead Arsenate. 
Control: Coddling Moth, leaf-roller, green fruit 
worm, or scab. 
Spray No. 4—Summer Spray (in July) 
Material: Nicotine Sulphate and Soap. 
Fire Blight—Shoots and branches blacken as if done by fire. 
Very serious. Spray at full bloom with 1-3-50 Bordeaux. Cut 
out canker, prune out diseased branches and destroy infected fruit 
spurs. 
Psylla—Leaves turn brown, drop, from sucking of tiny cicada- 
like insects; sooty mold in honeydew. 
Material: Dormant oil spray before buds break; lead arsenate 
and nicotine in calyx spray, and 3 weeks later. 
Blister Mite—Brownish blisters on underside leaves. 
Material: Dormant oil spray. 
Pear Thrips—Buds shrivel in very early spring. 
Material: Nicotine-oil spray when thrips appear. 
Slug—Slimy green larvae skeletonize leaves. 
Material: Lead Arsenate when slugs are first seen. 
CHERRY SPRAY 
Scale—Dormant spray, lime-sulphur or oil, as for apple. 
Cherry Aphid—Tar-oil dormant spray while buds are brown, 
or nicotine sulphate at green-tip stage. 
Brown Rot—Wettable sulphur: (1) As husks begin to split 
from small fruits; (2) 10 days later. 
Curculio—Add 1 tbs. lead arsenate, 5 tbsps. lime to each gal. 
of sulphur spray used for brown rot. 
Leaf Spot—Turn under fallen leaves; spray foliage as for 
brown rot plus lime-sulphur (6 tbsps. per gal.), when fruit first 
shows color and immediately after harvest. 
PLUM 
Scale—Dormant Oil Spray. 
Black Knot—Cut out knots 4 ins. below swelling. 
Brown Rot, Curculio, Leaf Spot—See Cherry Spray. 
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