68 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



enter into the expense of growing the cro]). Their idea is to buy the 

 apples for as little as possible and because the grower has not reckoned 

 the cost himself he tinds it impossible to do so. The grower is there- 

 fore at fault that has invested in his crop of ai)ples and how much he 

 should have to secure a profit that he sell his crop so cheap. The bet- 

 ter his nietliods the more it cost, but as a rule the better are his returns. 



In the pictures which are to follow you can see with your eyes that 

 to pay for })ower sprayer outfits, to buy tractor engines and operate 

 them, that double acting disc harrows, that grading machines and 

 trucks to haul to market cost good money and must be reckoned with. 

 But as much as all this in cost is the carloads of chemicals that are 

 sprayed onto the trees. Over and above the machinery and the ma- 

 terial used is the money paid out for labor during the season. 



It is useless for the fruit grower to attempt to grow apples by leav- 

 ing it all to nature on the theory that the Lord careth for His own. 

 It is far better to depend ujton the well demonstrated fact that the 

 Lord helps them who heli>s themselves. Like most things worth while 

 it will not do to go about growing apples in a half-hearted way. It 

 will not pay. You may just as well expect to make money by invest- 

 ing in a race horse who is just fast enough to keep from being shut out 

 by the distance flag, but who never wins a race. I have seen men spur- 

 red into enthusiasm at a horticultural meeting sufficiently to buy spray 

 material and spraying outfit whose enthusiasm waned to that extent 

 by spraying time that the spraying was done in a cursory manner or 

 was delayed until some other farm crop was cared for and it was too 

 late to do much good. 



One man complained to me that there was nothing in the spraying 

 business because he had tried it. When asked about it he said he 

 sprayed the orchard once after the corn was laid by. This was several 

 years ago and now not even an amateur would do so badly as this. 



Thorough methods Avith improved machinery makes it possible for 

 the grower to meet the conditions of time required for this work and at 

 a minimum of expense accom}dish the work which nature in its multi- 

 ])lication of fungus and insect ])ests forces upon him. 



It is no fool's job to grow perfect fruit. When the buyer has con- 

 cluded a purchase and by tlie time of its delivery the market has taken 

 a slum[) it is an easy matter to claim that fruit is not up to grade. It 

 therefore behooves the grower to grow fruit that is silver-lined, gold 

 plated and hand-painted to meet these requirements. It is therefore 

 imperative that the grower leave no stone unturned to accomplish the 

 best results. The best you can do Avill be some imperfect fruit and 

 some too small as sure as "God made little apples." 



Therefore not only grow the best but pack them well. To do this 

 is not easy, any more than it is easy to groAV perfect fruit. Get the 

 best labor you can and it will be none too reliable. There is a falling 

 from grace constantly among the workers and they must be constantly 

 looked after. It is hard for some people to guage the size of an apple 

 as 214 or 21/2 inches and here the grading machine comes into use 

 and solves that part of the problem. It is the same yesterday, today and 

 tomorrow. You will see one of these machines operated by a gasoline 



