The Farm Journal Illustrated Rural Directory of Monroe County, New ...

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CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY
SPRAYING CALENDAR
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APPLICATION.
FoUITK
APPLICATIOX.
RE MASKS.
When blossoms
have fallen. Bordeaux-arsenical
mixtare.
2-3 weeks later, Bordeaux-arsenical
mixturr.
14 days later, Bordeaux.
7-10 days later, repeat
14 days later, repeat.
10-14 days, Bordeaux.
10-14 days, repeat,
if necessary.
When fruit has set,
Bordeaux - arsenical
mixture.
10-14 days, repeat.
When fruit is onehalf
grown, Bordeaux.
After blossoms have
/alien. Bordeaux-arsenical
mixture.
8-12 days later,
bordeaux » arsenical
mixture.
Repeat in 2-3
week*.
14 days later, Bordeaux.
Repeat every 10-14
days until crop is
gathered.
14 days later, repeat.
Hellebore, if a
second brood of slugs
appear.
2 to 4 weeks later,
repeat.
2 to 4 weeks later,
Bordeaux.
10-14 days, repeat.
NOTE:—It is safer
always to use halfstrength
Bordeaux on
peach foliage.
8-12 days later, repeat.
For aphis (lice) use one of the lice remedies
mentioned elsewhere. Dig out frjrers from
tree trunks with knife and wire. For oystershell
scale, use whale-oil soap spray in June.
Mow vines close to ground when they are
killed by frost, burn them, and apply a mulch
of stable manure.
For weevils: Put seed in tight box, put a
cloth over seed, pour bisulphide of carbon on
it, put lid on. and keep closed for 48 hours.
Use 1 oz. to 4 bus. of seed.
* Root maggots:' Pour carbolic acid emulsion
around stem of plants. Club root: Rotate
crops; apply lime to soil; burn refuse; treat
seed with formalin before planting.
Rot or rust is often caused by hilling up
with earth in hot weather. Use boards for
summer cro' . Pithy stalks are due to poor
seed; or lack of moisture.
Black knot: Dark fungous-looking bunches
or knots on limbs. Cut off and burn whenever
Cane-borers may be kept in check by cutting
out and burning infested canes.
For lice, use any of the lice remedies. For
rose bugs, use 10 pounds of araenate of lead
and one gallon of molasses in 50 gallons of
water, as a spray. Or knock the. bugs into
pans of kerosene every day.
Use lice remedies for lice. For striped bugs,
protect young plants with a cover of mosquito
netting over each hilL Or keep vines well
dusted with a mixture of air-slaked lima, tobacco
dust and a little Paris green.
Dig out borers. Cut down and burn trees
affected with "yellows."
Look out for "fire blight." Cut out and
burn blighted branches whenever seen.
10-14 days later,
repeat.
Repeat for blight,
rot and insects.
Repeat in 10-14
days.
10-20 days later,
Bordeaux.
Repeat.
Cut out black knot whenever seen.
To prevent scaDDy tuners, treat the seed with
formalin before planting.
Hand-pick tomato worms.
mixture is a funrfcirfe a. well as a scale cure, and if it is -id
«pray may he omitted.
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