374 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Ofif. Doc. 



$75.00 to let me have iL;.aud in May, 31MI0, I lion-oAvod a spray rig 

 aud we sprayed it. We did some pruning-, taking out the dead wood. 

 We sold the fruit on the trees that year with 400 barrels which 1 

 had ordered for I'JOO.OO. We made a map of the orchard showing 

 (he varieties. The following year was the oti-year, and the land 

 was still in sod, and the crop*^ sold for $t;:iO.OO. In 1008 the land 

 was plowed and every other tree had been removed during the 

 previous winter. We were able to do this from our map, having 

 carefully noted on it all trees which were of poor varieties or in- 

 jured and making careful tally to find which row would need to 

 be removed in order to leave the most good trees. We took out every 

 other row on the diagonal, sometimes some good trees had to come 

 out; in other cases we had to put a young tree in, but in spite of 

 the loss of trees the yield that year sold for |1, 320.00. The trees 

 were pruned again, taking those which were in bearing. The follow- 

 ing year we sold for |1,340.00 and this year, 1910, which should 

 have been our big year we had very poor weather at the time the 

 Greenings were in bloom and had a very small crop of this variety, 

 which constitutes a large proprotion of the orchard ; so that our 

 3-ield this year will not sell for much more than |1,200.00 



SPRAYING 



Our method of spraying during the past year was to spray about 

 the time the buds were breaking until the leaves are the size of a 

 mouse's ear, with Lime-sulfur 1 to 9 with 2 pounds of Arsenate 

 of Lead to 50 gallons. This takes care of the Blister mite which is 

 moving at that time and the Arsenate of Lead is for the bud moth 

 and case bearers which have been a serious trouble in Western New 

 York. We intended to spray again just before the blossoms opened, 

 but left it until the blossoms fell. The omission of No. 2 spraying 

 was a mistake, I believe. The second j^ear we had the orchard we 

 used Bordeaux mixture and Arsenate of Lead for the spraying after 

 bloom, but we had so much injury from the Bordeaux that we have 

 not used it since, using merely Aresnate of Lead. This gave us good 

 results. We sprayed the trees from 3 directions with Arsenate of 

 Lead at the strength of 2 pounds to 50 gallons, and on trees which 

 would bear 10 to 14 barrels we find we have applied about 17 gallons 

 of solution to a tree in the three sprayings. This was followed in 

 ten days with a light spraying of weak Bordeaux with Arsenate of 

 Lead. This past year, however, we changed our policy and used 

 Lime-sulphur at the strength of 1 to 33 with 2 pounds of Arsenate 

 of Lead as soon as the blossoms fell and did not apply so much 

 to the tree, but even with this we found we encountered russeting 

 where the fruit met the full force of the spray. Where the fruit did 

 not get the full force of the spray the Lime-suli)hur tended to con- 

 trol the natural russeting of the fruit; and in a neighbor's orchard 

 where the material was put on with a hand pumj) at a much lower 

 jiressure than A\e i)ut it on, the russeting was almost eliminated; 

 while in a neighbor's orchard which was not sprayed, it was quite 

 prevalent ; so that we are convinced that russeting may be due to 

 natural causes as well as s-pray in'ury, and may r suit even when 

 Lime-sulphur is used. Our modified method of this year was not 



