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of hot water, and dilute with about six
gallons of cold water. This is a good
application for aphis (lice) on trees or
plants. For oyster-shell or scurvy scale
use this spray in May or June or when
the tiny scale lice are moving about on
the bark.
TOBACCO TEA.—Place five pounds of
tobacco stems in a water-tight vessel,
and cover them with three gallons of
h»t water. Allow to stand several
hours; dilute the liquor by adding about
seven gallons of water. Strain and apply.
Good for lice.
» LIME-SULPHUR MIXTURE. — Slake
twenty-two pounds of fresh lump lime
in the vessel in which the mixture is to
be boiled, using only enough water to
cover the lime. Add seventeen pounds
of sulphur (flowers or powdered), having
previously mixed it in a paste with
water. Then boil the mixture for about
an hour in about ten gallons of water,
using an iron but not a copper vessel.
Next add enough more water to make,
in all, fifty gallons. Strain through
wire sieve or netting, and apply while
mixture is still warm. A >gobd, highpressure
pump is essential to satisfactory
work. Coat every particle of the
tree. This is the standard San Jose
scale remedy, although some orchardists
prefer to use the soluble oil sprays now
on the market
PYRETHRUM, OR PERSIAN INSECT POW-
DER.—It may be dusted on with a powder
bellows when the plants are wet;
or one ounce of it may be steeped in
one gallon of hot water, and sprayed on
the plants at any time. It is often used
on flowers, in greenhouses, on vegetables,
etc
BISULPHIDE OF CARBON.—This is used
to kill weevils in beans and peas, etc.
It comes in liquid form and may be had
oi druggists. When exposed to the air
it quickly vaporizes into a poisonous and
exo'osive eas which is heavier than air
Tobacco stems, tobacco dust, kainit,
soot, freshly-slaked lime, dust, etc., are
often used as insect preventives—in the
soil around plants to keep away grubs,
worms and maggots, or. dusted on to
discourage the visits of cucumber bugs,
etc. (Note.—The first four are excel
lent fertilizers as well as insect preventives.)
Crows and blackbirds frequently pull
up planted corn. The best preventive
is to tar the seed, as follows: Put the
seed into a pail and pour on enough
warm water to cover it. Add a teaspoonful
of coal-tar to a peck, and stir
welL Throw the seed out on a sieve
or in a basket to drain, and then stir
in a few handfuls of land plaster (gypsum),
or air-slaked lime.
A NEW FUNGICIDE.—Some orchardists
are now using the following selfboiled
lime-sulphur spray, instead of
Bordeaux, claiming that it is less liable
to spot or burn fruit and foliage: Put
eight pounds of unslaked lump lime in
a barrel; add enough water to cover.
When the lime begins to heat, throw in
eight pounds of flowers of sulphur.
Constantly stir andv gradually pour on
more water until the lime is all slaked;
then add the rest of the water to cool
the mixture. About fifty gallons of
water, in all, are required. Strain.
Two pounds of arsenate of lead may
be added, if desired, to the finished
mixture, which then becomes a combined
fungicide and insecticide, and
may be used in the same manner as
advised for Bordeaux-arsenate of lead.
(Special note.—The self-boiled mixture
is not the same as the lime-sulphur
advised for San Jose scale, which is
too strong for trees in foliage.)
If you do not care to bother with
making spraying mixtures at home, they
purchased, already prepared, of
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exp.osivc gis * „ . ,., seedsmen. For only a few trees or
and which will destroy all insect me.
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(Caution.-Do not inhale the vapor, and plants, the extra cost of these factory
allow no lights near.)
mixtures is not great
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