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water and divided between the two barrels, and stirred until the poi- 

 son was well mixed with the water. I found that two men were 

 needed for the work ; one to drive and keep the pail or tub in which 

 the pump worked filled, and the other to use the pump. The driver 

 was directed to drive very slowly along one side of the row and 

 back the other, and the man with the pump, which throws a fine 

 spray fifteen or twenty feet high, to use great caution and see that 

 every part of the tree was reached and so thoroughly wet that the 

 water would drip from the leaves. 



The first spraying was done the first and second of June, when 

 the apples were about as large as a half-grown cherry, but I think it 

 should have been done a week earlier, just after the bloom had drop- 

 ped. The second application was made ten days later. 



From these sprayed trees, about three hundred in number, I 

 gathered 500 bushels of apples, from sixty to seventy-five per cent, 

 of which were perfect, and eighty-five per cent, marketable, while 

 from the same number of trees in adjoining orchards, I did not 

 gather a peck of perfect fruit. 



This result was astonishing to me, and I have hesitated to pub- 

 lish it, knowing how dangerous it is to form hasty conclusions, but 

 as there is not, in all probability, another orchard in the county that 

 has produced so much perfect fruit, there must be some cause for it ; 

 and after carefully looking over the ground, I have concluded that 

 the London Purple saved the fruit. 



The mixture that I used was too strong, and scorched the leaves 

 somewhat. Next year I shall use a pound of London Purpl to 

 three barrels of water (about 120 gallons), and am inclined to think 

 that even a weaker mixture would be just as good. 



With the cheap pump that I used, two men can go over a ten- 

 acre orchard in a day. It therefore seems to be unnecessary for the 

 ordinary orchardist to invest in high-priced machinery for the pur- 

 pose. 



Some of our scientific men tell us that applications of this kind 

 cannot possibly kill the Curculio; be this as it may, the apples in this 

 orchard have for several years been badly stung with this pest, but 

 this season they injured them but very little, and when asked if the 

 London Purple killed them, I can only answer, I don't know. If it 

 did not, why did this orchard show so much less of their work than 

 others. 



This experiment has been tried in various parts of the State and, 

 as far as I know, with unvarying success. Hon. B. Pullen, of Cen- 

 tralia, writes: "On account of delay in receiving the pump, I was 

 only able to experiment in a small way; I should have been at work 

 two weeks earlier, but the result was very satisfactory. I used one 

 pound of London Purple to eighty gallons of water and a large 

 spoonful of Paris Green. This was too strong and burned the leaves 

 to some extent. I shall use hereafter about a pound to 150 gallons 



