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selected with special care, planted the same time and given the 

 same treatment, yielded 2.38 bushels. This was a difference in 

 favor of selection the first year of 36 bushels. 



Mr. Fred E. Gott, Farmers' Institute Conductor, Spencerport, 

 visited 149 farms, giving particular attention to horticulture and 

 drainage. 



In addition to these thirty other places were visited by the 

 director and others. Some samples of this work follow. 



SPRAYING DEMONSTRATION AT CHARLTON, SARATOGA COUNTY 



Under the direction of the Bureau of Farmers' Institutes, Wil- 

 liam Hotaling of Kinderhook carried on the following demonstra- 

 tion work to detennine the effectiveness of spraying for codling 

 moth, at the Industrial Farm, Charlton, Saratoga County, in 

 accordance with an arrangement made by Mr. van Alstyne at the 

 Farmers Institute held" the previous winter. 



After inspecting a number of orchards in the neighborhood, 

 Mr. Walter J. Cavert and Mr. Hotaling finally decided the one at 

 the above farm* was the most available for the purpose. While 

 the conditions were not perfect there, they were as good as will be 

 found in most places where fruit is not very extensively grown. 



The orchard is about fourteen years old, mostly Baldwin and 

 Ben Davis, f-airly well grown and taken care of. The particular 

 part of the orchard selected to be sprayed' for the experiment con- 

 tained trees Xos. 6-7-8-9-10-11, in- the twelfth row from the high- 

 way, and to be left as a check or unsprayed trees Xos. 2-3-4 and 

 5 in the fourteenth row from the highway. These were all 

 Baldwins. 



The trees were sprayed with lime-sulphur solution at the rate 

 of one gallon of the concentrated article, testing 33° Beaume, to 

 40 gallons of water, with three pounds of arsenate of lead added 

 for every 50 gallons of the mixture. The work was done on 

 May 31 and the blossoms were in about their best stage at this 

 time, the petals having fallen and the calyx leaves being open. 



Neither ecpiipniont or conditions were as good as should be had 

 by any farmer making a pretense of spraying. The only thing 

 availal)le was a ])arre] sprayer, badly out of repair and with poor 

 e(]uipment. The day was very windy and a fine mist fell part of 



