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Bulletin Volume 25-37 by Pennsylvania Dept of Agriculture

Bulletin Volume 25-37
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Author: Pennsylvania Dept of Agriculture
Number of Pages: 168 pages
Published Date: 01 Mar 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781130491456
File Name: Bulletin.Volume.25-37.pdf
Download Link: Bulletin Volume 25-37
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...Be thorough, but not wasteful; use enough to make a film of kerosene capable of penetrating into the smallest crevice; but let that film be of the thinnest posible description. Do the work on a dry, bright day with enough air stirring to favor rapid evaporation and do it yourself, or at least superintend, so that carelessness in the application be not charged against the insecticide as inefficiency." Prof. Smith states that on smooth barked trees whale oil soap, at the rate of two pounds to one gallon of water will do almost as well, but that it will not answer on rough bark trees. Of this treatment with kerosene Dr. Webster of Ohio writes: "The San Jose scale is not spreading in Ohio so far as I know, but is being exterminated wherever its introduction has become known. In two orchards near New Richmond, Ohio, kerosene in an undiluted form has been used with marked success, both last year and this, without the least injury to the trees, either apple or peach. I am unwilling to recommend this treatment for general use as yet, but the results gained as against the San Jose scale are so valuable that I give the details with the hope that equally good results may be obtained elsewhere during other years." In writing to a correspondent who has used the kerosene, Dr. Webster received a reply from which the following is an extract: "The kerosene (clear coal oil such as we use in our lamps) which we used, was applied principally in the month of February when the ground was frozen. We applied it with a small varnish brush to some small trees, to the entire tree and on others only to the limbs that were most affected. My brother used a barrel sprayer, applying forty gallons of pure coal oil on 500 apple trees and fifteen peach trees. A part of th...

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