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the same firm, (Richardson Drug Co., St. Louis,) and we used 

 about the same amount of purple as of the other. That year, 

 also, we had few worms. Of course we could find them by hunt- 

 ing, but they were rare, and it was hard to find their work in the 

 orchard. If I could always spray just when I wish, it would be 

 just when the blossom has done its work and begins to drop. As 

 to injury to the foliage, we have at times injured it, apparently,: 

 but we could not tell why, as it would be a few trees in spots; 

 however, we could not see that where the foliage Avas scalded 

 that the trees were damaged. Last season a druggist came to me 

 and others in the neighborhood, and said as we used a large 

 amount of poisons he would like to get it for us, that he could 

 get it a little cheaper, and all that, and so we ordered through 

 him. We got the purple and used it a little weaker than we did 

 the first year. We- also had a little of the first year's purple left 

 and we used that on an eighty-acre orchard about ten miles from 

 the main orchard. We commenced the spraying work with that 

 old material. There the canker-worm died as before, and when 

 we gathered the fruit this fall it was far freer than other orchards 

 in that locality. On the second of May we commenced on 

 the large orchard, and we begun that with the fresh purple, and 

 were at it longer on account of the rains, for if we saw an ap- 

 pearance of rain we quit for fear of its washing off, so that we 

 were up to about the 16th of the month getting done. We saw 

 few trees with the foliage burned — perhaps a half dozen in that 

 season — but we had plenty of codling moth. We could not 

 see that the application did any good. The eighty-acre or- 

 chard was benefited, for there we could see the canker-worms 

 dead under the trees. We came to the conclusion that bogus 

 material was sold to us, so that it is very essential to see that we 

 have uniform poisons. Our trees have grown well. In our lo- 

 cality the blue grass takes the orchards if they are not culti- 

 vated, though we don't like to plow too much. We are on the 

 Illinois bluffs — the one hundred and seventy-five acres — and 

 we don't cultivate that as much as we would like to do, on 

 account of the washing of the soil. We believe that apple 

 growing pays, and we expect six or seven thousand barrels of 

 apples in one orchard next year from the present condition of 

 the trees. 



