STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. II7 



You can imagine what condition they were in. There are also 

 about 200 other trees on the place, scattered over the rest of the 

 farm in rows along by the walls and in single trees through 

 the mowing. 



When I commenced spraying for the codling moth my man 

 and I went to work in the south orchard. It took us four days 

 with that pump to go over the orchard. There were a great 

 many high trees in the old part and we tried our best to hit the 

 tops of them. We did fairly well, I think, for a barrel pump 

 and with the nozzle we had that threw streams instead of an 

 even spray. At the end of four days we got over the orchard. 

 The man said : "Are you going over the other one ?" I told 

 him no, the work was pressing, and that old pump did work 

 hard. I said if there was any good in spraying we would find 

 it out. Both orchards blossomed apparently alike and my scat- 

 tering trees the same. I watched the difference between the two 

 orchards through the summer, and I could very soon see that 

 there was a big difference. And when we came to harvest the 

 apples in the fall, from the south orchard I harvested a little 

 over 600 barrels of good, nice, smooth apples which would 

 practically all go for No. i. There might have been eight or 

 ten per cent that would not. I sold them as mixed apples, as 

 we were in the habit of doing at that time, and got a good price 

 for them. There were only from 30 to 35 bushels of cider 

 apples that came out of that whole lot. In the north orchard 

 I harvested a little over 100 barrels of not nearly as good apples 

 and I sold over five hundred bushels of cider apples out of that 

 orchard. This convinced me that spraying paid, and I made 

 up my mind then to take hold of it in good earnest and do what 

 I could with what trees I had. That fall I decided that if I 

 w'as going to spray I must get some sort of a power sprayer. I 

 purchased a power sprayer of the Friend ^Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of Gasport, N. Y., and I decided to use lime and sulphur 

 to spray for the scale. I put in a cooking plant of my own and 

 cooked my own lime and sulphur, putting in a steam boiler and 

 a tank for cooking, and then running the lime-sulphur wash oft" 

 into my spray tank, and during the month of December, up to 

 about Christmas time, I got over my trees. 



It is quite a serious job to spray for San Jose scale and do it 

 in good shape. One who has never done it or handled the 



