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will not learu the difference between insect life and fungous 

 growth. Often I have found him spraying with bordeaux 

 mixture for the scale and green aphis. His spraying rig is 

 only an excuse for one ; no agitator on his tank worthy the 

 name ; and his methods in applying the spray to his trees, 

 even if his spraying compound is the thing he should use, is 

 abominable. He uses a nozzle coarse enough to whitewash 

 Avith ; drives through his orchard and sprays for the apple 

 worm with it, frantically throwing the spray in a careless 

 way, not half spraying his orchard, and at gathering time 

 finds the greater part of his apples wormy and infested with 

 scale. He then attributes the success of his methodical, 

 intelligent neighbor to other causes than tlie real one — 

 spraying. 



CODLING MOTH. 



Perhaps the most damaging pest the fruitgrower has to 

 contend with is the codling moth. The loss from this pest to 

 the apple growers of the third district will aggregate thou- 

 sands of dollars the past ten years. 



The habits of the moth being nocturnal, the damage is 

 done so quietly that they are little understood by the masses of 

 the apple growers. All conditions being favorable, an apple 

 crop at gathering time is often found worthless from this pest. 



There is much contention among the fruitmen of this dis- 

 trict as to their ability in preventing the damage of the worm 

 to their apples by spraying, A careful investigation of this 

 contention discloses the fact that the careful, methodical men, 

 who spray their orchards for this pest, market from ninety to 

 ninety-eight per cent, of their apples in the fall free of worms, 

 while those that do not spray, or spray in a careless way, do 

 not market over forty or fifty per cent, of their product, the 

 remainder being wormy and of no value. The contentious 

 growers, who do not spray for the worm, are gradually giving 

 way, as the facts are against them. Many of these non- 

 spraying apple growers are like a man riding on a railroad 

 train with his back to the engine. They do not see a thing 

 until they have passed it. Then they see it. 



As an evidence of the ability of the apple grower to con- 

 tend, and successfully, and prevent the worm in the apple, I 

 cite the results obtained by spraying by the Olwell Brothers, 

 of Central Point. They have one hundred and sixty acres in 

 orchard twelve years old ; one hundred and forty acres are in 



