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MONROE COUNTY
FUNGICIDES.—Bordeaux mixture is
made by taking three pounds of sulphate
of copper, four pounds of quicklime,
fifty gallons of water. To dissolve the
copper sulphate, put it into a coarse
cloth bag and suspend the bag in a receptacle
partly filled with water. Next,
slake the lime in a tub, and strain the
milk of lime thus obtained into another
receptacle. Now get some one to help
you, and with buckets, simultaneously
pour the two liquids into the spraying
barrel or tank. Lastly, add sufficient
water to make fifty gallons. It is safe
to use this full-strength Bordeaux on
almost all foliage—except, perhaps, on
extra tender things, such as watermelon
vines, peach trees, etc For these it
is wiser to use a half-strength mixture.
FORMALIN.—This is also called formaldehyde,
and may be purchased at
drug stores. Its principal use is to
treat seed potatoes to prevent "scab."
Soak the whole seed for two hours in
a mixture of one-half pint formalin
and fifteen gallons of cold water; dry
the seed, cut, and plant in ground that
has not recently grown potatoes.
BORDEAUX COMBINED WITH INSECT
POISON.—By adding one-quarter pound
of Paris green to each fifty gallons of
Bordeaux, the mixture, becomes a combined
fungicide and insecticide. Or,
instead of Paris green, add about two
pounds of arsenate of lead. The advantages
of arsenate of lead over Paris
green are, first, it is not apt to burn
foliage even if used in rather excessive
quantities; and, second, it "sticks" to
the foliage, etc., better and longer.
INSECTICIDES.—ARSENATE OF
LEAD.—This is the best insecticide for
chewing insects, and is for sale by seedsmen.
Use about two pounds in fifty
gallons of water.
WHITE HELLEBORE.—This, if fresh,
SPRAYING FORMULAS
may be used instead of Paris green in
some cases—worms on currant and
gooseberry bushes, for instance. (It is
not such a powerful poison as the arsenites,
and would- not do so well for
tough insects such as potato-bugs.)
Steep two ounces in one gallon of hot
water, and use as a spray.
FOR SUCKING INSECTS.—Now
we come to another class of insecticides,
suited to insects which suck a plant's
juice but do not chew. Arsenic will
not kill such pests; therefore we musf
resort to solutions which kill by contact.
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KEROSENE EMULSION.—One-half pound
of hard or one quart of soft soap; kerosene,
two gallons; boiling soft water,
one gallon. If hard soap is used, slice it
fine and dissolve it in water by boiling;,
add the boiling solution (away from
the fire) to the kerosene, and stir or
violently churn for from five to eight
minutes, until the mixture assumes a
creamy consistency. If a spray pump is
at hand, pump the mixture back upon
itself with considerable force for about
five minutes. Keep this as a stock. It
must be further diluted with water before
using. One part of emulsion to
fifteen parts of water, is about right
for lice.
CARBOLIC ACID EMULSION.—Made by
dissolving one pound of hard soap or
one quart of soft soap in a gallon of
boiling water, to which one pint o£
crude carbolic acid is added, the whole
being stirred into an emulsion. One
part of this is added to about thirty-five
parts of water and poured around the
bases of the plants, about four ounces
per plant at each application, beginning
when the plants are set out and repeated
every week or ten days until the
last of May.. Used to fight maggots.
WHALE-OIL SOAP SOLUTION.—Dissolve
one pound of whale-oil loap in a gallon