November 1, 1909 
The Orchard. 
Notes for the Month. 
— Cultivation. — 
During the month the orchard should 
be well cultivated, especially in districts 
where the rainfall is light. The scarifier 
will als> keep the weeds down, and 
prevents the ground from becoming 
-eaked, e8 af er rain, if not stirred up, it 
soon becomes hard and dry, and the 
moisture soon evaporates. ‘ 
— Watering — 
Where irrigation is practised, a thorough 
watering should be given to all trees 
towards the end of the month. Be most 
careful to keep the water confined to the 
‘furrows, as, Wherever the land is flooded 
it is liable to become hard. As soon as 
the furrows are dry enough to work, cul- 
‘tivate the orchard twice, and luosen the 
soil around any young trees with a fork 
hoe. : 
— Summer Pruning — 
Summer pruning may be started this 
month, and it is well.to go over and reg- 
‘ulate the growth of all young trees thin- 
ning and shortening back where required 
—that is where the tree is growing too 
thick—and pruning or pinching back, so 
as to keep the tree evenly balanced and 
‘symmetricle. This early summer prun- 
ing ismore for young trees, to aid in 
directing the growth to that part of the 
‘tree where is is most required. 
— Codlin Moth, — 
Every care should be taken to destroy 
the Codlin moth, which makes its 
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appearance about the time the apple- trees, 
finish blooming, lays its eggs on the 
young fruit and leaves ; and after hatch- 
ing works it way into the apple, and 
within a few weeks emerges and lowers 
itself down to the ground by a silken 
thread and immediately seeks shelter by 
crawling up the tree and getting into any 
crack or underneath any old loose bark, 
either on the tree, or props, or any loose 
rubbish which will provide a hiding 
place. The orchard should therefore be 
kept free of such rubbish and all trees 
bandaged at a height of about 10 inches 
from the ground. The grubs will harbor 
in the bandages, which should therefore 
be removed every ten days and all grubs 
killed. Pick up and destroy all fallen 
fruit. 
— Spraying. — 
All citrus trees attacked by fungus 
diseases should be sprayed with Bordeaux 
mixture. In applyirg a spray like Bor- 
deaux mixture to citrus trees, it will be 
found advantageous to apply the mixture 
ina small qnautity at a time, in two 
successive sprayings, rather than one 
heavy application, which may run off the 
surface of the young fruit 
Never several 
months after they have been sprayed with 
as, if they are so 
treated, all the leaves will fall off; 1nany 
of the smaller twigs, and occasionally the 
top part of the tree, will be killed. 
fumigate trees for 
Bordeaux mixture, 
Pigs for the Orchard. 
In a district in Germany, the valuable 
pine forests were being seriously injured 
by the grubs of the pine moth, and the 
local authorities turned into the forest a 
number of pigs to see if they would be 
useful in destroying the chirysalides of the 
moth, 
The result fully angwered their ex- 
pectations, for the pigs hunted eagerly 
for the chrysalides; in fact, they seemed 
able to find them by scent and eat large 
numbers. 
Whereas previously it was not un- 
common to find twenty chrysalides to the 
square yard, there are now hardly any. 
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And : as regards the 1e pigs it was feared 
that such a dict miglit make them ill, and 
that losses wou'd be incurred, but, on the 
other hand , they have thriven wonderfully 
well, so much so that it has been decided 
to let them. pass “the winter in the 
forest. 
It bas been noted in this journal 
several times that pigs hayve™ “been found 
most useful on orange groves,. as they root 
among the roots and clear off fiddler 
beetles and fiddler grubs; their rubbing 
against the truuks of the trees also cleanse 
two or three feet of these of scale, moss 
lichens (and White Scale seems.to attack 
from below). The good young pigs do in 
an orange grove far exceeds the little 
harm their grubbing among the roots may 
do, and the untidy look of the grove may 
be excused for a few months, as this can 
be easily put to right again. 
The best time to put pigs in a grove is 
from October to January, and also when- 
evor the fiddler beetles are seen. Some 
people keep pigs in thier groves all the 
year round with no apparent harm, but 
visible good. This has been sneeringly 
referred to as “pig cultivation,” but net 
results are what must be considered. 
‘Journal of the Jamaica  Aricultural 
Society.’ : 
G. A. PREVOST & CO.,, 
Currie Street, 
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oot Fungicide 
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‘Bave-w’ Power. Sprayers 
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