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One spraying with Bordeaux mixture was also given at a cost of 

 122.02. 



Tlie best trees of the orcliard hitherto nnprnned were thinned out 

 through the year, tlie total pruning bill being |10. 



The crop was light, about 100 bushels, but there were no apples in 

 the neighborhood, and the fruit sold readily to neighbors at from 75 

 cents to 11.25 per bushel. The total cost was |74.74, the gross returns 

 189.25, leaving a net profit of |ld.51. 



Labor during this year is charged at fl.SO per day, and fl per day 

 for team. 



WORK AND RESULTS FIFTH YEAR, 1908. 



The pruning this year was chiefly the removal of sprouts and dead 

 limbs, and amounted to less than the average required. 



Four sprayings were made. The first just before the blossoms opened, 

 using 3 lbs. of copper suli)hate, 5 to 10 lbs. of lime, and I/4 lb. Paris 

 Green to 50 gallons of water, applied with a hand pump. The second 

 and third sprayings were made the last of May, and June 10, after 

 the blossoms fell ; in these, 3 lbs. arsenate of lead took the place of 

 the Paris Green. The fourth spraying was made August 7 and 8, and 

 11/2 lbs. arsenate of lead and 1-6 lb. Paris Green was used and only 

 one-half as much copper sulphate and lime as in the previous sprayings. 

 The Paris Green was used to piece out a limited supply of arsenate 

 of lead. 



The fruit set abundantly on 16 trees of Red Astrachan, Fameuse, 

 Winter Rambo, Jonathan, Baldwin, Northern Spy, and Ben Davis. It 

 was thought advisable to thin them and it was done at an average 

 cost of 25 cents per tree. 



In picking, the fruit was gathered and put directly into apple and 

 cracker barrels and orange boxes, and set on a low-down v/agon with 

 bolster springs beneath the platform and hauled to the barn. Baskets 

 were used in the main for picking, but on high trees both baskets and 

 sacks were used to save trips up and down the ladder. 



One hundred thirty-one bushels were sold to farmers or villagers 

 who secured them from the orchard or storage; 41 barrels of summer 

 fruit were consigned to a Chicago commission house; 71 barrels of 

 winter fruit were sold to grocers and consumers, and the balance, or 

 about two-thirds of the winter fruit, was sold to a cold storage com- 

 pany, the car being loaded with the barrels and crates just as picked 

 from the trees. 



Eighty-eight bushels of picked fruit, which was on hand (Nov. 15), 

 or distributed to neighbors and friends, are credited as sold, but no 

 account is made of the fruit used by three families and given away 

 during the summer, or of the cider apples Avhich did much toward 

 supporting a drove of hogs, and furnished cider, vinegar, and apple 

 butter for several families. 



The items of all the expenses of producing and harvesting the crop 

 for this season are as follows 

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