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the remainder Baldwin, Winesap, R. I. Greening, and Yellow Bellflower, 

 3,000 boxes. 



We sold our whole crop from 75 cents to $2.25 per box. Three-fourths 

 of our crop packed ninety-six to the box, and the four and one-half tier 

 will not exceed 250 boxes. 



This year we thined heavier than ever before. We used arsenate of 

 lead for the codling moth, and had only one-half of one per cent of 

 wormy apples; had no burnt foliage, and apples hung better in the 

 fall. Had practically no loss from dropping. 



Anthracnose is a thing of the past with us. San Jose scale is the 

 fruit growers' worst pest, but by spraying with salt sulphur and lime 

 compound each year it can be held in check so that the per cent of loss 

 will be small. 



We have now thirty-five acres in apples, bearing, and fifteen acres 

 two years old. We have the trees bought to plant 120 acres more 

 this winter, which will make us 170 acres in orchard. Our planting 

 this winter will be mostly apples — the Yellow Newtown, with a few 

 pears and peaches. 



Of the views we send you — 



• Plate I. Yellow Newtown tree, packed thirty-six boxes. 

 Plate II. A row of Newtowns. 

 Plate III. Pears packed for shipment. 

 Plate IV. Showing apples packed, Eisman Bros. 



Yours truly, 



Eisman Bros., 

 By F. D. E. 



This letter, coming from such successful apple growers as 

 Eisman Bros., should have a practical value to every apple 

 grower of the State. The fact that Eisman Bros.' trees did 

 not prematurely drop their apples before gathering time is, I 

 am sure, for two reasons, viz. : first, arsenate of lead does not 

 burn the foliage when spraying for the codling moth, and the 

 tree retains its full vigor up to gathering the apples; second,, 

 the Brothers spray each fall immediately after the apples are 

 gathered with bordeaux mixture. This spray not only con- 

 trols anthracnose, but other fungi, and the tree is in the best 

 possible condition to respond to its burden of maturing a 

 heavy crop. A. H. Carson, 



Covimissioner Third District. 



