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and bow you tried to exicoiua<;e me by saying, you can easily save 

 that orchard ; if 1 only had one like it, I would be glad. Well, we 

 have saved it; we have the scale under conijilele control. One of 

 ray neighbors told uie I wasted more material than he used, but I 

 told him I would save what he lost." 



Here is the fundamental principle for success in spraying: Use 

 the right material freely and strong enough jmd do thorough work. 



A prominent Berks county grower writes us that if it had not 

 been for the demonstration work, his trees would have had to be cut 

 down, but the scale is now under complete control. He adds, "We 

 cannot afford to give up this work." 



Only recently 1 was in Ohio and I saw persons there cut down 

 hundreds of trees because infected with scale. I am glad we are 

 showing the people here how to save them, rather than cut them 

 down. 



In Bedford county we have some of the finest fruit in Pennsyl- 

 vania. At the Pittsburg Land Show, the Jonathan apple grown by 

 Prother Richards, received special attention and first award. His 

 trees were once completely infected, but he sprayed with lime- sulphur, 

 and now has the scale in full cf^ntrol. 



From Bradford county 1 have a communication saying that the 

 results of spraying were very satisfactory. Mr. Fred Bohlayer, of 

 Troy, Avrites: ''I suppose you will want to hear about the work 

 done by the State in our Model Orchard. The results from the 

 work done in the spring are certainly a surprise. While most of the 

 orchards l)Ioomed full in the spring, most of the blossoms dropped 

 off, except those that were sprayed. In this part of the country 

 there are scarcely any apples. In our own orchard, in which you 

 gave the demonstration, I have about six hundred bushels. They 

 are selling here at a dollar. There are scarcely any wormy ones, 

 as I have no trouble with the worms." 



We have found that the lime-sulphur is also a preventative of the 

 blister mite, if applied while the trees are dormant. 



As you get closer to this map, you will see that the white pins 

 stand for the demonstration orchards, and the black pins for the 

 supervision orchards, and there are one and a half times as many 

 of the latter as of the former. 



This letter of Mr. Bohlayer's, from Bradford county, also speaks 

 of spraying the King api)le. "The King trees rather looked as 

 if they were going to die last year, but after spraying with the lime- 

 sulphur, there was no trouble; we sent a box of these apples to 

 the Land Show in Pittsburg, and if you are there, would like you 

 to take a look at them." 



Gamtria County. — We had two demonstration orchards, one oi 

 which produced remarkable results, and the other did not. There 

 are cases where the trees need something else besides spraying, some- 

 thing else besides pruning. Soil and climate have much to do with 

 results, and then, again, we must not expect a hundred per cent, 

 the first time we spray. 



Center County. — Col. Reynolds sold |20,000 worth of peaches from 

 the orchard in which we gave the demonstration. There were quite 

 a number of students from the College, as well as many other peo^ 

 pie there to meet my inspectors. In Mr. Brinton's orchard we spray- 

 ed one side of a tree; how about that tree? 



