i')'2 REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE. 



apples. lu 1899 their orchard bore part of a crop. They 

 sprayed five times daring that season, using four and one- 

 half ounces paris green and four and one-half ounces london 

 purple to one hundred and twenty gallons of water, with 

 eight pounds of lime. At gathering time a careful list was 

 made and showed only two per cent, of apples that were 

 wormy. The ninety-eight pev cent of sound apples they sold 

 for $14,000 that year. 



This year, 1900, their crop is double what it was in 1899. 

 They sprayed the same number of times they did last year, 

 using the same proportions of paris green and london purple, 

 and this year a test shows ninety-eight per cent, of their crop 

 to be sound and free of worms. Unsprayed orchards in the 

 immediate vicinity of the Olwells showed nearly all of the 

 apples to be infested with worms. 



Weeks & Orr, of Medford, Oregon, have one hundred and 

 forty acres of apples bearing this year. Their methods of 

 spraying, last year and this, are the same as Olwell Brothers'. 

 I found, on September 25, that about ninety-eight per cent, 

 of their apples were sound and free of worms. 



In Josephine County, near Grants Pass, Hon. H. B. Miller, 

 former commissioner-at-large of this board, now in China, 

 has sixty acres of apples that bore a full crop this year. As 

 to the results and success had in his orchard in spraying for 

 the apple worm this year, I copy what his foreman says ; 

 to-wit : 



"This is to certify that I am foreman of H. B. Miller's apple ranch, and 

 have been for three years. That the apple orchard consists of sixty acres; 

 that the same was carefully sprayed this year five times for the apple worm, 

 under the direction of A. H. Carson, Horticultural Commissioner Third 

 District; that at gathering- time I found only three per cent, of the apples 

 wormy; that orchards unsprayed in the same vicinity, which I have care- 

 fully examined, show not less than half the crop to be wormy. I estimate 

 that, by spraying- for the worm this year, the apples saved from the worm 

 will amount to $1,000 above the cost of spraying-.'" 



HENRY RUCH, 

 Foreman. 

 Grants Pass, Oregon, October 13, 1900. 



From the foregoing certificate of Mr. Miller's foreman we 

 see the necessity of spraying for the apple worm from a 

 business point. In an orchard of sixty acres we find thfe 

 apples saved from the worm paid for the spraying and paid a 

 profit of $1,000 for doing the work. 



The success of Olwell Brothers, Weeks & Orr and Mr. 

 Miller in growing sound apples, free of worms, by the use of 



