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poison." T believe that all of these are s^ood remedies, especially the 

 last mentioned. The question arises, how are we going to do it? 1 

 answer by spraying, I have been spraying for six years. I have read 

 everything I could lind upon that subject. While the results have not 

 been just what I desired, yet, I have succeeded far better than b}- 

 neighbors. They attribute my success to location and good luck. 

 But I am convinced beyond a doubt that is the spraying of my fruit. 



And the onl}^ reason that I have not had better results is that I 

 was not as thorough in spraying as I should have been. I think that 

 is the experience of every one that believes in spraying. All will admit 

 that it will require heroic measures to succeed. My advice would be 

 "if you don't intend to apply the remedy you had better quit planting, 

 and stop furnishing a nest bed to breed insects to prey upon your 

 neighbors orchard." I sprayed the first four years, three times a year, 

 using the liquid formula. Last year I sprayed four times, applying the 

 Hillis dust compound to a part of my orchard and the liquid to the 

 balance. I sprayed the different lots the same day. At gathering time 

 I picked about all my fruit where I had used the dust. Not only did 

 I get my fruit where I sprayed with the dust but, the foliage was 

 more perfect. 



I had more fruit than all of my neighbors put together. The 

 editor of the Fruit Grower will bear testimony to the statement as 

 he was in my orchard, and was in my neighbors also. He was in my 

 orchard this year at gathering time. So I will let him speak as to the 

 condition of the trees and fruit. I was pretty well satisfied last year 

 that the dust compound was the thing. But now I am convinced that 

 it is far better than the liquid. This year I sprayed six times with 

 dust, once before the bloom opened, then just as it dropped, the next 

 week twice, then once a week until I had sprayed the orchard six 

 times. I intended to commence again in July and spray up to the 

 middle of August, but did not and there is where I fell down. The 

 drouth was so severe I was afraid I would kill my trees. I have 

 never had a smaller per cent, of culls than this year. I gathered as 

 fine a lot of apples this year as I ever raised. I had only about 12 

 acres with a full- setting of fruit, with scattering fruit on the balance 

 of the 30 acres. I sold my fruit for $2,200 on the trees and reserved 30 

 barrels of my choicest fruit. So you see I believe in spraying. Now, 

 I will give you some reasons why the dust spray is far better than the 

 Hquid. In the first place there is much saving of labor. You do away 

 with the hauling of water. One man can spray as much in one day 

 as three with the liquid. Again, water is only used in your liquid 

 to convey your arsenite poisons, while fresh slacked lime is a fine 



