216 Stale Ilnrficiilfiiral Society. 



Mr. F. II. Spcakmau of Neosho, Mo., spoke on the same stil)jr(( as 

 follows : 



I would !^a) that foi' llie most part in our spraying operations we 

 have used the liquid form, and I am convinced of the good results of 

 that. What the other will do, I am not so well prepared to say, al- 

 though we have experimented in a small way with that, with the 

 dust spray, but I am greatly in hopes that much good will come from 

 its use. It is much more easily applied, and if it will do the work as 

 well will be a saving of labor and a great deal of expense, which comes 

 at the time that one can hardly give it;, that is, the labor is all needed 

 elsewhere. There is everything to be done at that season of the 

 year, or nearly so it seems, and while I hope for more from the dust 

 spray, I am not in a position to say that we have obtained good results 

 from it. 



The first spraying that we do and have done each season is the 

 blue stone solution, which is applied before the bud swells, about 

 the middle of March, and that I think is one of the most important 

 applications made during the spraying season, inasmuch as that is 

 the time to rid your orchard of fungus diseases, the apple scab 

 fungus and probably severalothers, and by the application then you 

 can do much more thorough work than later for that p*"ticular object. 

 Then when the leaves come out, and after the blooms have dropped, 

 we have sprayed the past season more thoroughly than others with a 

 strong solution of Bordeaux mixture, and also used Paris Green for an 

 insecticide, and then after that we have given about two applications 

 of the same formula, and later have applied the dust to some extent, 

 but I am convinced of the value of spraying with liquids. The liquid 

 alone is a solution of the problem of preventing fungus diseases and 

 insect enemies from ruining our future crops. I have had a good op- 

 portunity of testing that the past season inasmuch as our orchards 

 have been over run during their early years of bearing, or attempts to 

 bear, by these enemies, and the past season our crop was a very 

 satisfactory one, while other orchards around there were almost ruined 

 by the different diseases and enemies. 



I will relate a little experience with one small orchard -that I had. 

 The orchard yielded 138 bushels of number one and two apples, and 

 in looking at these apples at a little distance you would think they 

 were all perfect. They were large, highly colored, very fine in ap- 

 pearance at a little distance away, but upon picking and packing 

 those for market there were nine bushels of perfect fruit and 129 

 bushels of number twos, strictly number two. There were no number 

 ones amongst them at all, while in our own orchard that had re^.■ei^•ed 



