56 Bureau of Farmers' Institutes. 



right to destroy his neighbor's bees than his cattle. Instances 

 are on record of the bees carrying the poison into the hives. 



Do not think that I consider spraying an easy job. There is 

 nothing connected with fruit-growing I dislike so much. When I 

 have reached the end of the spraying season and i)ut away the 

 sprayer, I always feel like singing a Glory Halleluiah. It is not 

 an easy thing to do, but it pays, and that is what we grow fruit 

 for. We want profit as well as fun. 



** How many times and when do you spray j'our apple trees?" 

 TJeually three times. First, just as the foliage starts, using 

 Bordeaux and Paris green. I find this just as good as to spray 

 earlier. Then after the blossoms fall, as noted above, and usually 

 once more, about two weeks later, using Borbeaux and Paris green 

 twice each. Last year I did not spray but twice. It was a dry 

 season and the spray was retained on the trees, having little rain 

 to wash it off. I have Bordeaux on my trees now (February) that 

 was put on last May. Then, too, we had but little weather to 

 develop fungi. Some years it may be necessary to spray four or 

 five times. I use with Bordeaux mixture, half a pound of green 

 or poison to 50 gallons of water; that is for apples and pears. 

 With a good agitator I have never had it burn the foliage. It 

 will take as much as this to kill the bud-moth and will kill tent 

 caterpillars and other insects quicker, which is an item when a 

 rain follow^s shortly after spraying. 



I believe green arsenoid just as valuable as Paris green, and 

 certainly much cheaper. It could be bought last season for 14 

 cents per pound. For those who are doing much work, white 

 arsenic will be found cheaper still. This needs to be boiled with 

 sal-soda, and while not a diflScult job, a beginner had better use 

 the green, as the simpler he can make the operation the better. 



I find a good deal of the first spraying can be done best from 

 the center of the trees. This I learned from spraying large elms 

 for the elm-leaf nets. We put a pair of telegraph lineman's spurs 

 on a man and sent him into a 50 or 60 foot tree with 40 feet of 

 hose and 8 foot rod. Ordinarily a good, powerful hand pump, 

 with a good agitator, will do the most practical and thorough 



