How to Make Bordeaux.
Use copper sulphate (bluestone) 5 pounds; quick-lime (good stone lime), 6 pounds; water, 50 gallons. Put the bluestone in a sack and hang it so it will be suspended just under the surface of a barrel of water over night, or dissolve in hot water. Use one gallon of water to one pound of bluestone. Slake the lime in a separate barrel, using just enough water to make a smooth, clean, thin whitewash. Stir this vigorously. Use wooden vessels only. Fill the spray tank half full of water, add one gallon of bluestone solution for each pound required, then strain in the lime and the remainder of the water and stir thoroughly. The formula may be varied according to conditions, using from 3 to 8 pounds of bluestone to 50 gallons of water and an equal or slight excess of lime. Use the stronger mixture in rainy weather. Keep the mixture constantly agitated while applying.
Formula for Lime-Sulphur.
To make lime-sulphur take quick-lime, 20 pounds; ground sulphur, 15 pounds and water 30 gallons. Slake the lime with hot water in a large kettle, add the sulphur and stir well together. After the violent slaking subsides add more water and boil the mixture over a fire for at least one hour. After boiling sufficiently strain into the spray tank and dilute with water to the proper strength. If a steam boiler is available, this mixture may be prepared more easily on a large scale by cooking in barrels into which steam pipes are introduced. This mixture cannot be applied safely except during the winter when the trees are dormant. A large proportion of the lime-sulphur used in the State is purchased already prepared in more concentrated form.
Index
Fruit Growing.
Almond
Grafting on Peach
Pruning
Budding and Grafting
Planting
Pollination
Roots for
Longevity of
Seedlings
Do Not Plant in Place
Stick-Tights
And Peach
Apples
Shy-Bearing
Not on Quince
Stock For
And Alfalfa
Top Grafting
Mildew on Seedlings
Pruning
Will They Be Same Kind
Places for
Grafting in Place
Resistant Roots
For Hot Place
Die-Back of
Storage of
Root-Grafts
Apricots
Pruning
Shy-Bearing
Propagation
Renewing Old
Summer Pruning
Bananas
In California
Berries
Pruning Himalayas
Hardiness of Hybrids
With Perfect Flowers
Pruning Loganberries
Strawberry Planting
Blackberries for Drying
Planting Bush Fruits
Strawberry Plants
Strawberries in Succession
Gooseberries, Limitations of
Carobs
In California
Cherries
For Hot Place
Wild
Pruning
Training Grafts
Restoring Tress
Pollination
Citron
Curing
Citrus Fruit
Temperatures
Filbert Roots
Filbert Growing
Figs
Stickers
No Gopher-Proof Roots
Trays, Cleaning
Fruit Trees
Depth of Soil
What Slopes
and Overflow
Roots for
and Sunburn
Budding
Starting from Seed
Square or Triangular Planting
Planting on Clearings
Dipping Roots of
Preparing for Planting
Depth of Planting
In Wet Place
Cutting Back at Planting
Branching Young
Coal Tar and Asphaltum
Regular Bearing of
Avoiding Crotches
Crotch-Splitting
Strengthening
Covering Wounds
Covering Sunburned Bark
Gravel Streak
Transplanting Old
Dwarfing
Seedling
Filling Holes in
Deferring Bloom
Repairing Rabbit Injuries
Crops Between
Scions for Mailing
Scions from Young Trees
Whitewashing
Deciduous Planting
On Coast Sands
Over Underflow
Grapefruit
and Nuts
Grapes
Dry Farming
Cutting Frosted Canes
Dipping Seedless
Zante Currant
Vines for Arbor
Pruning Old Vines
Bleeding Vines
Scant Moisture
Sulphuring for Mildew
Sugar in Canned
Planting
Grafting
Wax
June Drop
Killing Moss on Tree
Interplanting, Wrong idea
Lemons
Citrus Budding
No Citrus Fruits on Roots
Mulberries
Pruning and Grafting
Nursery Stock in Young Orchard
Orchard
Replanting
Plowing in Young
Pigs in
Forage Under Sprayed Trees
Oranges
Water and Frost
Thinning
Wind-Blown Trees
Handling Balled Trees
Navel Not Thornless
Over-Size
Budding or Grafting in Orchard
Under-Pruning Trees
Keeping Trees too Low
Dying Back of Trees
Young Trees Dropping Fruit
Training
Crops Between Trees
Navels and Valencias
Seedlings
Acres to One Man
Roots for Trees
Soil and Situation
Transplanting
Protecting Young Trees
Not on Osage
No Pollenizer for Navels
Water and Frost
Frosted, What to do
Pruning Frosted Trees
Pruning
Olives
Cultivating
Moving Old Trees
Darkening Pickled
Seedlings Must Be Grafted
Oranges and Peppers
Budding Seedlings
Budding Old
from Small Cuttings
from Large Cuttings
Trimming Up
Canning
Renewing Trees
Growing from Seed
Neglected Trees
Peaches
Lye-peeling
Aged Trees
Renewing Orchard
Will He Have
Fillers in Apple Orchard
Grafting on Almond
on Apricot
Replanting after Root Knot
Buds in Bearing Trees
Pollen Must Be Same Kind
Grafting on
Young Trees Fail to Start
Planting in Alfalfa Sod
Pecan Growing
Pears
Pollination of Bartletts
Comics
Not on Peach
Dwarf Pears
Yield in Drying
Problems
Blight and Bees
on Quince
Plowing, Young Orchard
Plums - Pollenizing
Prunes
On Almond
Re-grafting Silver
French or Italian
Myrobalan Seedlings
Drying
Sugar
Glossing Dried
Price on Size Basis
Pruning
Times
Shaping a Young Tree
Late
Too Much
In Frosty Places
Low Growth
Are Tap-Roots Essential
For a Bark Wound
Bridging Gopher Girdles
Roots, Whole or Piece
Soil, Binding Plant for Winter
Spineless Cactus Fruit
Stumps, Medication to Kill
Sucker, What will it Be
Walnuts
Early Bearing
Handling Seedlings
How to Start
Planting
Pruning
Grafting
on Oaks
Eastern or California Blacks
Ripening
Cutting Below Dead Wood
in Alfalfa
in the Hills
Increase Bearing
Temperature and Moisture
from Seed
High-grafted
Vegetable Growing.
Artichokes
Jerusalem
Globe
Growing
Asparagus Growing
Beets
Leases for Sugar
Topping Mangel Wurzels
Brussels Sprouts - Blooming
Bean
Growing
Hoeing
as Nitrogen Gatherer
Yard-Long
Why Waiting
Blackeye
Are Cow-Peas
Horse-Bean Growing
Growing Castor
Inoculation
On Irrigated Mesas
California Grown Seed
Cloth for Hotbeds
Celery, Blanching
Chili Peppers
Corn
in Sacramento Valley
in Warm Ground
Sweet, in California
Cucumbers
Forcing
Growing
Continuous Cropping
Ginger in California
In Cold, Dark, Draft
Licorice in California
Lentils, Growing
Lettuce, Transplanting
Melons
Winter
Ripe
Onions
Seeds and Sets
Ripening
from Sets
Crops from Seed
Peas
Canada for Seed
Growing Niles
Peanuts
Harvesting
and Adobe
Potatoes
Cutting
Planting
Northern Seed
Planted Early
Balls
Seed-ends
and the Moon
Planting Whole
How to Cut Seed
Scab
Double-cropping
Keeping
Yield
New for Seed
Growing
After Alfalfa
Flat or Hill
Bad Conditions for
On Heavy Land
Storage for Seed
and Frosts
Sweet, Plant Growing
Growing
Between Trees
Less Water, More Heat
Radish, Giant Japanese
Rhubarb, Rotting
Soil for Vegetables
Squashes Dislike Hardship
Sunflowers, Harvesting
Tomatoes
Irrigating
Big Worms
Loss of Bloom
Grain and Forage Crops