STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 6j 



RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE APPLE 



INDUSTRY. • 



Prof. Alfred G. GullEy, Storrs, Conn. 



It goes without saying that the most prominent subject of dis- 

 cussion today among fruit growers is spraying in its various- 

 methods and uses. Hardly a meeting of horticulturists can 

 gather that the topic is not taken up. Still, the whole matter 

 is comparatively new. Rather a marked exception to the old 

 adage of there being nothing new under the sun. I doubt if 

 there are many in the audience that could have given a formula 

 for Bordeaux Mixture fifteen years ago. I might also add I 

 am not altogether sure there are any now. Yet the importance 

 of this work is not overestimated. But even now the growers 

 who do not practice it are in the majority outside of certain 

 limited sections, and unless replaced by other stringent measureSr 

 readily admit their mistake. At the exhibition of our State So- 

 ciety this fall, fruit from sprayed trees won in every contest 

 over that not so treated. I am convinced that none of us yet 

 have reached the limit of its benefit, and I can safely add the 

 limits of spraying either. Personally I have reached the point 

 where I think the spray pump must not stop till fruit picking 

 begins. Have not as yet practiced it. The codlin moth has 

 learned our customs and now waits till we stop spraying then 

 gets in its work. Perhaps it would be more correct to say that 

 it keeps on at work while we are taking a rest. Certain of 

 our fruit diseases only make trouble late in the season. 



You grow Greenings in this State. You have the fungus — 1 

 don't know as you do on Greenings. We have lots of it with us. 

 We did a considerable lot of spraying this spring, up to the first 

 of July, as usual, and then set the machine away. Along about 

 the 1st or 5th of August I happened to go into one of the 

 orchards, and in the center of it I saw quite a lot of Greenings 

 that were in nice condition, trees loaded, and I detected on one 

 or two a little beginning of that fungus, but that is as far as I 

 went. I didn't go to spraying. By the time we got ready to 

 pick those trees, some fifty barrels, there wasn't a solitary one 

 not more or less covered by that fungus. What did it do? It 



