Part 35 (1/2)

Water 50 gal

Dissolve the copper carbonate in the smallest possible amount of ammonia This solution th as needed

Use this instead of the Bordeaux mixture after the fruit has reached half or two thirds of the mature size It leaves no spots as does the lime-sulphur wash or the Bordeaux mixture

SPRAYS FOR BOTH FUNGOUS AND INSECT PESTS

HOME-MADE LIME-SULPHUR WASH

Lial

The lime, the sulphur, and about half of the water required are boiled together for forty-five minutes in a kettle over a fire, or in a barrel or other suitable tank by steaallons This is the wash regularly used against the San Jose scale Ittrees in the dormant state Commercial lime-sulphur allon of the coallons of water in the dormant season

SELF-BOILED LIME-SULPHUR WASH

The self-boiled lime-sulphur wash is a combination of li li on peaches, plums, cherries, etc as a substitute for the Bordeaux mixture

Lial

The lih water poured on it to start it slaking and to keep the sulphur off the bottom of the barrel

The sulphur, which should first be worked through a sieve to break up the luh water to slake the li is necessary to prevent caking on the botto of the lime is over, the h cold water added to stop the cooking From five to fifteen minutes are required for the process If the hot mass is permitted to stand undiluted as a thick paste, a liquid is produced that is injurious to peach foliage and, in soe

The h a sieve of twenty meshes to the inch in order to remove the coarse particles of lih the strainer

GLOSSARY

To enable young readers to understand the technical words necessarily used in the text only popular definitions are given

=Abdo behind the thorax

=Acid=: a chear and lemon juice owe their sour taste to the acid in therown to full size and strength

=Aen readily usable as a plant food It is one of the products of decay

=Annual=: a plant that bears seed during the first year of its existence and then dies

=Anther=: the part of a staen=: nitrogen in the air Great quantities of this valuable plant food are in the air; but, strange to say, most plants cannot use it directly from the air, but uen