IMPORTANT TO ORCHADISTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 953, 11 February 1911, Page 4

IMPORTANT TO ORCHADISTS.

REMEDY FOR WHITE BLIGHT. After some years of patient study and investigation, Mr W. H,. Taylor, orchard superintendent at the Weraroa Experimental Farm, has discovered a most effective remedy for the treatment of white blight, says the Chronicle. When this treatment is judiciously advertised it is more than likely to be adopted by all orchadists in the Dominion, and from what a Chronicle reporter was able to see it is quite probable the Government itself will give the remedy its approval. Mr Taylor paints the affected part—in winter time only—with red oil, which is made into an emulsion. The emulsion consists of one gallon ot oil, half a gallon of water, and one pound of soft soap. This is diluted about forty times with water for spraying purposes, but Mr Taylor uses the emulsion without any adulteration, and applies it to the whorls with a small brush. Previous to this he had tried castor oil, neatsfoot oil, and other remedies, but none proved really effective. They did net exterminate the insect. The emulsion now in use thoroughly exterminates the insect. To test its reliability a few trees have been treated by the ordinary spray, and these are affected by white blight. In every other case there is not one particle of blight to be seen, and this in spite of the fact that no spraying has been done on the trees this year. The pear, apple and plum trees are literally weighed down with a profusion ot fruit.