68 Agricultural Experiment Station^ Ithaca, N. Y. 



recent patclies of scab are sometimes killed outriglit, but the chief 

 value of the Bordeaux mixture certainly lies in pre venting an attack 

 or checking the spread of the fungus. 



Apples can still be profitably grown in western New York, 

 This is proved by the experience of a number of orchardists. I have 

 visited over twenty orchards in the western part of the State this 

 year in which there were large crops of excellent quality, but all of 

 these had been sprayed with Paris green or Bordeaux mixture, or 

 both, all of them were pruned and the land was in " good heart.'^ 

 Most of them were cultivated. The general run of orchards were 

 almost barren this year, and the smallness of the crop was usually 

 in proportion to the degree of neglect in which the orchards were 

 growing. I have asked a number of the successful growers, whose 

 orchards I have inspected, to prepare me a statement of their 

 methods, and their accounts are here given. Several correspondents 

 also report good crops of apples this year, and all of them attribute 

 their success to careful treatment either of tillage, fertilizing or 

 spraying. Amongst these are E. W. Catchpole, North Rose, Wayne 

 Co. ; Lyell Ilill, Morton, Orleans Co. ; J. Van Yorheis, Fisher's,. 

 Monroe Co. ; J. B. Collamer, North Parma, Monroe Co. 



T. G. Yeomans <& Sons, Walworth, Wayne Co. [see cutonjpage 65). 



We give the following statement of our experiments in spraying^ 

 our apple orchards the past season. 



This being the first season in which we have sprayed our apples 

 with Bordeaux mixture, we feel reluctant to say too much in its 

 favor till we have had more experience, except to say we are so well 

 satisfied with the results that we shall repeat the same next year 

 more extensively. We have about one hundred and thirty acres of 

 apple orchards, which have been planted from thirty to forty-eight 

 years, and which are nearly all Baldwins. Our spraying tanks hold 

 about three hundred gallons and they are made like a thresher tank. 

 The men who spray, stand on a platform on the rear end of the 

 tank, about nine feet from the ground. This platform is made ta 

 project about one foot beyond the outside of the tank on each side,^ 

 thus enabling the men to .stand outside of the tank proper, and 

 allowing them more room in which to work. A strong rail on the 

 four sides of the platform prevents the men who spray from falling 



