216 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



WORK AND RESULTS THIRD YEAR, 1906. 



The Spraying of the previous year had given the trees a more thrifty 

 growth, and the light crop allowed them to mature numerous fruit buds, 

 so most of the trees set a good crop. 



The youngest orchard was pruned this spring and the home orchard 

 pruned again. All trees that had been pruned and the best unpruned 

 ones in the third orchard were given four applications of Bordeaux 

 and Paris Green as follows: 1st application May 3-5, before blossoms 

 opened; 2nd, May 22-26, after blossoms fell; 3rd, June G-7; 4th, August 

 5-7. 



About 750 bushels were picked. The apples were put in barrels 

 and crates and hauled to the barn on the home farm. After the pick- 

 ing season was over, these Avere graded and packed. Most of the cro]) 

 was sold F. O. B. Athens at 75 cents per bushel box for fancy, fl.75 

 I)er barrel for No. 1 and |1.25 for No. 2. The early fruit was consigned 

 to a commission house and some winter fruit Avas sold to home con- 

 sumers. Apples were quite abundant in the locality and prices medium 

 to low. The itemized account for the season is as follows: 



Pruning $10.75 



Spraying 36 . 82 



Picking and packing 80 . 20 



Packages \ 49 . 08 



Labels 2.25 



Total cost -1170.10 



Apples sold 404.74 



Net profit 1225.64 



Winter fruit for family use is credited at 50 cents per bushel, but 

 no credit was made for early fruit, cider, vinegar, and apple butter, for 

 three families, or for apples consumed by hogs. 



A small orchard was also sprayed for a neighbor, he doing the prun- 

 ing and paying for the spraying, and we harvesting and marketing the 

 surplus fruit on halves. This amount to $42.96 this season. 



WORK AND RESULTS FOURTH YEAR, 1907. 



The San Jose scale now made its appearance in the orchards. It 

 was already pretty well established on several trees and scale marks 

 could be found on the fruit from nearly every tree. During April 

 and early May, we sprayed these orchards thoroughly with lime and 

 sulphur wash, going over the trees twice with the wind in opposite 

 directions. This wash was made by cooking the concentrated materials 

 in barrels with steam from the saw mill near home, whence they were 

 hauled in closed barrels to the orchards four miles away. Enough was 

 cooked in the morning to last during the day and diluted as used. The 

 cost of this spra'ying was |26.27. 



