The Potash Remedy for the Apple Blight.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 146, 26 May 1885, Page 3

The Potash Remedy for the Apple Blight.

We have been, requested to repiib^ peared »m a letter m the Melbourne Leader:?— ~ „ j Alk^ielJin^ri^us^W^iftive'Wed used by gardenejUEuior the destruction' < >f J Wsfcr fniv> „oeQ4*Vfy r pasW;Poj ksWor^kHe cor^ df^tfpofly* h »l*ghti {ApKis, UnigeraYitiMSGS ay wordy wail between twp claimants for priority m! >itVuW>knd 'b'feW utoilo^ 6f *applicflftl<Sn ! {dossers. Willj^msot} and Stevenson] have entered tUs lists, nnd woe to itn vi who should Kte|Tbut«veen them. ItitJ I not wrthj-bitt oj)ject|that^l; /ifvvite t«* you on 1 tile^idter; ' I read your ac 4 wiunt ( of s* M .^i^jamsonja^rpa^uentl ■* of hits jipple tvees, .ami, having con I wdembje- tro^hje. with the ajjhis^ l| . .nja^o : tf iif W; !6.'«np Potion jmili'^ajjplied, wintW'(lß76). ,KnQw| i inif the Vat w of Hi)ief 4T fdV upplicatiori ;it> th'e'i^bts of trees b ? a«Jly atteeted, I) - addcd>it;to "theicoiupoisitioD, ''and- thci i p*ipcipal"inffrt'dientßUßt'd were potash j^JuiH^aJiftlei Bulßhmii^nd >.oiU ; Thft purfaoerrootM were laid barej and : the compound freejy spread ov*er! ; /tpera, j ''"A, Ipj; 'p?:^rc^cli eralis (abbiit ioCf-trees) were m previous- years «j wnK-e of expense; as « he ; prod iic6' iti .fruifc idid "not pay fcrtlio labour ot try-j. ing to i.er^dicftto.jthe J>lightß: .theee, huve.BOti since been diessed with any : blight-^destrbying corajmund. Other vWi«*tift» ; of apples ; wre siinilai'ly treafe^lanjl'ttiereKHslieen no need tp dret<s them siitee. >i I 'nony-observe : the is 'WappfeMrinjr,' but^^ not to any oppreciabje ". xle^rit^ ; '., >no, dqujit ..the ; reuitMiy -jyill;r«q«U<'ei -to be again aj>-f plied;. The. trees can be iupected on Sunb.iiryJ v^ -: tjip .warty knots' seeti - which were i'ormerly the home of tho ajvhis^tip*;' showing agjiin m a' 'fesi "Jsgb'ts. 1 Yhetifeatnient supersedes the old paintings and da'u I rings ' withr Gis* : hurst,' tiain oil, keroflenc, and other "greasy, messes, which only 'partly "ef-7 'so far as Jft«^t- n s3t Uw pota-li mixture will give thorough immunity to the ap^le^ree front|tihe ; attacks ot blight^ Lecauso, m the lapse of yearsl w^hi^ji»itoJ»j^»J;iog^^he>i)q^;jof the tree, and due allowance being made . lor the dispersion dissipation, by wind and raiu j iibt fehough may be left whhjin reach^of \iu» rdols tiKihiliiience thp ; blight ,i^sißtin^j)nti|re, of .the sup| i Vdite till oja of the mixtiire .would; tlien He neoe&aary. > * i