
Spray Program For Home Orchards 


APPLES, PEARS, AND QUINCES 














Diseases | 
Remarks 


This oil spray 
is important 
for the control 
of red mite 
and pear 
psylla 

Important for 
scab control 



Good coverage 
necessary for 
good control 



Amount to Use in: 
to Materials Vea 
Appl to be 
Ppply 1 gal. | 5 gal.| 50 gal. Boreoled 
he Oil Scale insects 
When emulsions %C.| 3C. {1% gal.| red mite, pear 
trees are psylla 
strictly 
dormant 
Dn Dry lime- Curculio, bud 
When sulfur. SH -Onllabon Culimos lia. moth, aphids, 
blossom | Nicotine apple and 
buds SUltatcaene en Lele Reribe VY pt. pear scab 
show Lead 
pink arsenate....| 2-3 T.| 4 C. |1% lb. 
SI: Same as same | same | same Apple and 
When above, but pear cab, 
most of omit nico- curculio, cod- 
petals tine if only ling moth, 
have a few aphids red bug 
fallen and red bugs 
are present 
4. Wettable Apple and 
Three pulfurs cise. | 6-OrlaypeeeC. -|.3:41b- 1! péar' scab; 
weeks Lead curculio, 
after arsenate....| 2-3 T.| %&C. | 1% lb. | codling moth 
petal fall | wettable 
powder..... 2-3 T.| %C. | 1% lb. 
‘oy Same as same | same | same Same as 
About above above 
Z-15vot 
July 



If other con- 
centrations of 
DDT wettable 
powder are 
used than the 
25%, adjust 
dosage ac- 
acordingly 



NOTE: Apple maggot is one of the most serious pests in the farm 
orchard. Picking up the dropped fruit under all trees at weekly 
intervals, beginning July 15, and feeding the fruit immediately 
to hogs or burying it under a foot of packed soil will aid 
greatly in controlling this pest. 
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