Il8 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



lime and sulphur wash hardly realizes what it is. We are ob- 

 liged to spray with the wind, and there is always plenty of wind 

 any time during the months that the trees are dormant. Every 

 bit of the wood has to be covered in order to smother the scale. 

 It took me the whole month- of December, what weather I could 

 get that was suitable, to spray. In the following March I went 

 all over my trees again and gave them a good, thorough soak- 

 ing. And of course in May when the trees blossomed I sprayed 

 for the codling moth as before, and two weeks afterwards 

 went over them with another lot of Pyrox. The result was 

 that I harvested 1150 barrels from my orchards and they were 

 all fairly good market apples, — not nearly as many cider ap- 

 ples as I had the year before. 



In the spring of 1909 I went through these same operations 

 again, spraying the trees for the San Jose scale, and of course 

 spraying for the codling moth, with the exception that for my 

 Mcintosh apples I sprayed before the buds opened; just as 

 they were getting good and pink I gave them a good spraying 

 with Pyrox, and after spraying the first time for the codling 

 moth, in spraying two weeks afterwards I used clear lead arse- 

 nate instead of the Pyrox as before, and I think that made quite 

 a difference in regard to the brown-tails on them. A few of 

 my scattering trees I did not spray the second time because they 

 were in fields where the grass was heavy and I did not care to 

 go through the fields, and those trees had the brown-tail moths 

 on them quite thick. But there were scarcely any brown-tails 

 on those trees on which I used the lead arsenate for the second 

 spraying. That arsenate stayed on the leaves and I think de- 

 stroyed the insects. This last spring of 1910 of course I went 

 through the same process, with fairly good results. 



Now in regard to fertilizing my trees. I have taken up two 

 or three different ways in different orchards. My north or- 

 chard, in which I spoke of the trees as being close together, 

 the first two years I fertilized with manure from the barn, put 

 on with the manure spreader at the rate of about ten loads to 

 the acre. I ploughed that in, running the plough shallow, not 

 more than three or four inches deep, and kept that harrowed 

 down the greater part of the season. I did that for two years, 

 1907 and 1908, with that orchard. The south orchard and my 

 scattering trees, I put on for the first two years bone and pot- 



