Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1917 — SPRAY YOUR APPLE TREES [ARTICLE]

SPRAY YOUR APPLE TREES

Practically all loss of apples from the codling moth may be prevented by spraying the trees within the next week with a mixture of one pound of arsenate of lead or Paris green and one gallon of limesulphur solution to thirty-five or forty gallons of water. The moths have now developed from the pupal stage and are busy laying their eggs in the foliage of the trees. These eggs will soon hatch and the larva will enter the apples from the blossom end unless arrested by a minute particle of poison sprayed into the calyx of the fruit which may be reached only at this time. A number of the farmers of the county went to the trouble early in the spring of pruning their trees and spraying for the control of the San Jose scale. - As estimates place

the loss from the codling moth at not less than one-half of the value of the fruit produced in the state, a little time spent in the further care of these orchards would feeerfl' advisable. The time required to spray an orchard is comparatively small and the equipment required is very inexpensive. This promises to be one of those years when fruit will be abundant and apples of high quality will find a sale while inferior grades can not be disposed of at any price. A little time and attention now may add many dollars to the revenue derived from the average farm orchard. STEWART LEAMING, County Agricultural Agent.