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the time. The work was done bj the boy inmates, nndcr eighteen 

 years of age, at the direction of Mr. Hotaling. Later all the sur- 

 rounding trees, except the checks, were sprayed under the direction 

 of the superintendent of the farm. 



On October 9th Mr. Ilotaling returned to the Industrial Farm 

 to count the fruit and note the result of the demonstration. The 

 trees that were designated for comparison in the sprayed plot were 

 taken first and all fruit was gathered from both ground and tree 

 and a careful count and inspection made. Where there was any 

 doubt the fruit was cut. The fruit from the unsprayed check 

 trees was next handled in the same manner. Below is given the 

 result of the experiment, the trees mentioned being average trees: 



SPRAYED 



No. Per cent 



Apple3 Fair Wormy Wormy 



Tree No 8 649 528 121 18.6 



Tree No. 10 884 751 133 15.0 



XJNSPEAYED 



Tree No. 4 523 158 365 69.8 



Under the adverse conditions mentioned this means that the 

 sprayed trees had fifteen to eighteen barrels out of every hundred 

 that were worthless or second class, because of the worms, while 

 the trees left unsprayed showed sixty-nine barrels out of every 

 hundred worthless or second class. The photographs on page 1629 

 show product of the sprayed trees Nos. 8 and 10. 



" FOLLOW UP " WORK AT LINCOLN AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL 



On January 28. 1912, Dr. Ellis M. Santee spoke upon poultry 

 at a Farmers' Institute, held at the Lincoln Agricultural School, 

 Lincolndale, N. Y. This institution is devoted to the training of 

 poor or delincpient boys from cities, in the different branches of 

 agriculture. A few days later the Department received a request 

 from the director of the school asking that the doctor be sent there 

 to instruct them in the proper method of organizing a poultry de- 

 partment. They had recently killed off all their fowls because 

 they were not profitable. Their poultry house was unfit for the 

 purpose ajid had been taken for a calf pen. 



In response to this request this bureau sent Dr. Santee to the 



