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when in full bloom and on the other side when the blossoms had 

 fallen. More and better fruit was taken from the side sprayed 

 in full bloom. The whole orchard, including the trees under 

 experiment, was sprayed again with Bordeaux and Paris green 

 when the fruits were as big as marbles. The grower has photo- 

 graphs of the experimental Baldwin and Twenty Ounce trees, 

 showing the difference in their fruitage. In 1900, tests were 

 again made with these trees: 36 trees sprayed in full bloom gave 

 '■' 150 barrels of No. 1 fruit," and 2 trees sprayed when the blos- 

 soms had fallen gave " 1 barrel of No. 1 fruit and 3 barrels of 

 No. 2 fruit." 



A fourth grower of Gasport sprayed part of his orchard in 

 1899 before the trees blossomed, but was interrupted, so that 

 the remaining trees were not sprayed until they were in full 

 bloom. He had a good crop only on the latter trees. 



A fruit grower of Orangeport has an old orchard, mostly 

 Rhode Island Greening, which was in sod till 1899, and had never 

 been productive. That year it was plowed, tilled and sprayed 

 with Bordeaux and Paris Green. As the owner was not able to 

 cover the entire orchard before the blossoms opened, he was 

 compelled to spray a block of 36 trees near the road when they 

 were in full bloom. " Those 36 trees bore more good fruit than 

 the remaining twelve acres in my orchard. I believe it was due 

 to the fact that I sprayed them in full bloom. I am spraying 

 most of my trees this year at that time." 



In 1899, another man in Orangeport sprayed all of the trees 

 in his small Baldwin and Roxbury Russett orchard when they 

 were in full bloom. The very full crop which he took from the 

 trees that year M attributes to the spraying in bloom. 



Still another Orangeport grower has one Rhode Island Green- 

 ing tree which was sprayed in 1899 when in full bloom. " It had 

 twice as many perfect apples on it that year as any other Green- 

 ing on the place." 



Other fruit-growers in Western N-ew York assert that they 

 have observed an advantage from spraying at blooming time, but 

 the experiences here given are all that were investigated. Various 



