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work. Half-way spraying leaves plenty of uncovered foliage and 

 fruit for insects and fungi to feed on. ,Wlien the work is thor- 

 oughly done there is no choice for the insect but to eat and die. 

 From 85 to 90 per cent, of fruit may be made absolutely perfect 

 if the work is properly done. 



To show the advantages brought about by the Bordeaux in 

 giving vigorous foliage, I will site you an instance that happened 

 a few years ago. My men ran out of Bordeaux in spraying the 

 Greening trees, and as they were only short half a barrel, I told 

 them to finish with green and water. The next spraying I helped 

 to do myself, and came first to the side of the Greenings that the 

 men had sprayed last. I at once noticed that the foliage was 

 yellow and sickly looking, and as I had forgotten about the lack 

 of Bordeaux I was planning to give them some increased fertility, 

 but on coming back to the other side found the foliage as healthy 

 as any in the orchard. Then I remembered that those were the 

 trees, one side of which had no Bordeaux, showing the value of 

 the Bordeaux where it is applied, and only there. 



Now an illustration for the scab on fruit. I have a block of 

 Newtown pippin trees standing below a hill, on rather heavy soil 

 and too close together. These were thoroughly sprayed with 

 Bordeaux three times and poison to test the value of the Bordeaux 

 for the scab. I had in the same orchard three trees of the same 

 variety on high ground in the outside row where they had plenty 

 of light and air. All conditious most favorable to the develop- 

 ment of the scab. These I left unsprayed. In spite of their 

 favorable conditions two-thirds of the apples were so scabby as 

 to be worthless, while the trees unfavorably located, but sprayed, 

 looked as fair as oranges, and pronounced by the buyer the best 

 he had ever seen. 



One more illustration to show the efifect in ridding fruit of in- 

 sects. A few years ago I had strawberries in one orchard, and 

 as the weather was very wet when we should have sprayed, 

 the work was delayed. Fearing to injure the berries the orchard 

 was left unsprayed. I sold my fruit that year, guaranteeing it 

 perfect. That from the sprayed orchard sorted out only one 



