VALUE OF SPRAYING FOR ORCHARDISTS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1473, 28 June 1912, Page 10

VALUE OF SPRAYING FOR ORCHARDISTS.

In en article which recently appeared referring to fruit production in New Zealand, it was shown that in Jlolneka. the industry was. practically saved through the efficacy of spraying. This business was once looked upon as an expense, but it is now considered ;; : byi'all up-to-dalo growers find farmers as an absolute noeessity. Kven now in this country it must bo admitted that a large amount of money is lost annually through somo orchardists neglecting to ' upray their trees and plants, in tho United Stales thu loss is set down at the gigantic total of'.£loo,ooo,ooo'annually. There nre several varieties of spraying solutions, but a now one just introduced from America by Sharland and fniiipany, who an the solo New Zealand nsciils for Sherwin-Wil-liams Company, Ohio, appears to deserve more than ordinary attention on the part of farmers. The Sherwin-Williams Company are the largest makers of insecticides and fungicides in the world. Their products are the results of years of personal investigation and experiment* in the way of chemistry and .fruit-growing on their own experimental stations, and they now carry the hall-mark and arc recommended by the United States Agricultural Department. This information is of value to New Zealand orchftrdNt-s and farmers who arc invited by Me-srs. Sharlond and Company, Wellington and Auckland, to write for full particulars of these well-tried fruit spraying specifics. The product which merits special attention so far as New Zealand fruitgrowers are concerned is the Ileutral process arsenate of lead, which contains the lowest percentage, of water, .soluble'' arsenic possible, i.e., .014 par cent, or practically a. minus quantity, thus obviatiug any possibility of burning either fruit or foliage—matters of supreme importance to orchardists who grow for cithsr homo consumption or export. Tho iota! output of inspcticides by the Sher-win-Williams Company for the year 191011 was 447,000 dollars, or «£!)0,O00 ° j