Self Boiled Lime Sulphur Mixture As A Promising Fungicide

Excerpt from Self-Boiled Lime-Sulphur Mixture as a Promising Fungicide Should the boiling be very prolonged the mixture might become caustic enough to burn foliage, although no such injury developed in the experiments. If it should be found in practice that the use of hot water dissolves too much sulphur, so that the foliage is injured, cold water may be substituted and a less intense heat thus developed, or the sulphur can be withheld until the lime has partly slaked, thus regulating the amount of sulphur dissolved. By this boiling process the sulphur is put in good mechanical con dition for spraying, and enough of it is dissolved to make the mix ture adhesive. As a large percentage of the sulphur is simply held in mechanical mixture with the lime water, it is necessary that the spraying outfit be provided with a. Good agitator, so that the mixture may be kept constantly stirred, and settling be thus avoided. In the treatment of apple trees, Paris green may be added for the con trol of the codling moth in the same manner as when Bordeaux mix ture is used. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.