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good yield of apples, and says an item in a country paper states 

 that pi,UOO was paid out for apples at Montrose last fall. The 

 growers receiver $1.00 a barrel, the shipper furnishing the barrel. 

 Notwithstanding this showing, the orchards are not pruned or cared 

 for as they should be. But little spraying, and much wormy fruit. 



W. H. Stout, Pinegrove, Schuylkill county, says spraying is neces- 

 sary; benefits unquestioned. It is difficult to get good crops of 

 fruit in his locality with about all the insects and fungous growths 

 in the long catalogue to contend W'ith. Yet tJie market the past 

 summer was overstocked and prices ruled very low. 



S. M. Baker, Brookfield, Tioga county, says spraying and other 

 attentions to trees neglected, consequently but little good fruit. 

 Scabby and wormy fruit is plenty enough. 



Pressley Leach, Burgettstown, Washington county, says: "We 

 sprayed two of our orchards last spring and the other three we let 

 go without spraying. The two we sprayed had a good crop of good 

 apples, and the other three had very few apples and the fruit very 

 inferior. He further states that those who spray have fruit and 

 the unsprayed orchards fail to produce. 



Theodore Day, Dyberry, Wayne county, reports the apple crop 

 the largest ever grown, but pears a very light yield. A few peach 

 trees bore, standing on high dry land exposed to the winds. Mr. 

 Day proposes to introduce disease among the caterpillars; he has 

 done this twice before. 



A Ruth, Scottdale, Westmoreland county, says blight has killed 

 about all the pear trees except the Kielfer and the Early Katharine. 

 Of spraying, he says not much practiced and no success. Advocates 

 keeping hogs in orchard to eat up wind falls and wormy fruit. 



Prof. S. B. Heiges, York, York county, says that apples from un- 

 sprayed trees are not keeping so well. The comparative failure 

 of the pear he attributes to the low temperature last spring. 



Col. J. A. Stable, Emigsville, York county, says the Haverland 

 strawberry bears immense crops and to some extent supersedes the 

 Cumberland. Under the head, shrubbery, plants and flowers, he 

 reports: "Splendid; our roadsides are covered with wild and culti- 

 vated sorts." 



H. G. McGowan, Geiger's Mills, Berks county, says that Dr. Funk, 

 of Boyertown, had a fair crop of peaches. He says with them the 

 question is how to keep apples. Cellars are too warm, caves seem 

 to be failures, and cold storage too expensive. 



J. N. Pyle, Willowdale, Chester county, reports an immense crop 

 of apples of remarkable size, considering the overloaded condition 

 of the trees. Good crop of pears. Peaches nearly a failure; a few 

 trees bore a fair crop; these stood in sod and were heavily mulched 



