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Title: Productive orcharding, modern methods of growing and marketing fruit
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Sears, Fred Coleman, 1866-
Subjects: Fruit-culture Apples
Publisher: Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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late winter and by others during spring and summer if theoutbreak is serious. QUESTIONS L What is a fungus? 2. Describe the action of a fungicide. 3c Describe the apple scab. 4. What methods are recommended for combating tiie apple scab? a. VVJiat remedies are recommended for rust? G. Tell what you can of the disease known as blotch. 7. Outline the methods of fighting canker. 8. Describe the work of the fire blight. How may it be controlled? 9. Describe peach scab. 10. Describe leaf curl. How is it controlled? 11. Wliat is the most practical method of controlling the black-knot of plums and cherries? 12. What are the worst fruit diseases in vour district? CHAPTER XIIISPRAYING APPARATUS It has already been said that it pays to have a good equip-ment with which to work. There is as great a difference betweenan ordinary spray pump and an exceptionally good one as thereis between a No. 3 Baldwin and an Extra Fancy Baldwin. Andusually the best pump does not cost much more than the medium.
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Fig. 76.—Using a bucket pump on a bearing apple tree. This is a very efficient little pumpfor the money and is entirely satisfactory for a few trees. It is the same with buying a spray pump as with buying a suitof clothes. Get a good one and it will last for years and be asatisfaction all the time. Buy a poor one and you are sorry forit from the start. Moreover, the styles in spray pumps do notchange much. A good spraying outfit consists of a pump at one end and anozzle at the other, with more or less hose and extension-rodbetween. We will begin with the pump. 175 176 SPRAYING APPARATUS Spray Pumps.—There are quantities of them on the market.Some are better than others, but most of them are good. A fewof them are worthless or nearly so. Of course the type of pumpone ought to have depends on whether he has six trees, or sixty,or six thousand; also on whether his trees are old or young,peach or pear, dwarf or standard. There are five general types , of good pumps which it seemsworth

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