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There was no first-class fruit among the unsprayed White Doyennes. The second- 

 class fruit from the unsprayed White Doyennes was much of it unfit for market, and 

 was not sold. What was sold brought the price above named. 



At these prices the average receipts were as follows: 



* Aside from extia cost in packing and handling due to the increased yield. 



The White Doyenne second-class fruit was not all sold, so that the gain from treatment 

 appears in this statement less than it actually was. About three weeks before the 

 pears were picked a severe wind storm blew off many bushels of the fruit. There can 

 be no doubt that but for this unavoidable occurrence the showing would be much more 

 favorable to the sprayed trees than it really is. 



The cost of treatment was as follows, counting the cost of the mixture as one-half 

 cent per gallon : 



Total cost material six treatments $0.1968 



Cost of labor for six treatments 0.3561 



Average total cost per tree six treatments .553 



" cost per treatment per tree .092 



" total cost per tree five treatments .4 76 



" cost per treatment per tree .095 



The gain per hundred trees therefore varied from $423.10 to 8562.40, not including 

 the extra cost of packages and handling. 



For several years past these trees had been quite unprofitable on account of the 

 attacks of pear scab. The trees were thirty-five years old and the largest ones were 

 from twenty-five to thirty feet high. They had been given but little, if any pruning, 

 and the tops were therefore very dense. This made it difficult to spray them thoroughly 

 and the treatment was consequently more expensive both in labor and in material than 

 it would have been with open top trees of the same size. It is reasonable to suppose 

 that had it not been for loss of fruit by the wind storm above mentioned, and had the 

 tree tops not been so dense the gain from spraying would have been more than it really 

 was. 



It should be remarked that the five hundred and sixty-two dollars' gain per hundred 

 trees from the sale of the spraj'ed fruit does not represent all the benefit resulting 

 from the spraying. Early in the season it was noted that the foliage of the sprayed 

 trees was of a more healthy color than was the foliage of the unsprayed trees. Later 

 in the season the difference in the health of the foliage was very marked and on 

 account of having healthier foliage the sprayed trees evidently went into winter in bet- 

 ter condition, and are better prepared for a good crop in 1894 than are the unsprayed 

 trees. It was also noted that during the wind storm above mentioned a larger propor- 

 tion of fruit held to the trees that were sprayed than held to the unsprayed trees. This 

 indicates clearly that the fruit and foliage on the sprayed trees were in a much more 

 healthy condition than was the fruit and foliage of the unsprayed trees. 



Of course both the Seckel and the White Doyenne pears are varieties especially sub- 

 ject to the attacks of the scab fungous, and the large gains resulting from their treat- 



