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been maintained this spray may be omitted, but when necessary the 

 hame materials should be used as in second spray. If you have it 

 at your command a little more pressure should be used. The eggs 

 for the second brood of codling moth larva are laid where two apples 

 touch or where an apple lays against a limb; hence it becomes nec- 

 essary to force the materials up between the apples, and between 

 the apple and limb so that the first feed of the little larva may be 

 poisoned. If he gets one feed without poison he is beyond our reach 

 and we are bound to have wormy apples. With these two materials 

 properly applied at the right time and in the right way we can con- 

 trol the insects that infest our trees and fruit. 



PROFITABLE APPLE CULTURE 



By SHELDON W. FUNK, Boyertown, Pa. 



Mr. Chairman and Friends: I realize very well the uncomfortable- 

 uess of this room, and I assure you that I am not going to keep you 

 one minute longer than is absolutely necessary. We are going to 

 hurry through this as quickly as we can. If there is anything which 

 comes along that you don't understand, or that I fail to explain, 

 don't hesitate to ask me and I think we will be able to get through 

 in very good time. 



Owing to the fact that this last season apples have been selling very 

 low, a great many men have come to the conclusion that there is no 

 more mone^"^ in the apple business. I have met a great many fellows 

 who are getting very sick and claim that the apple business is going 

 to be overdone; that we have overplanted the apple. Possibly we 

 have. But we must remember that the low price this last season was 

 not due alone to the fact that we had a rather large crop ; but it was 

 due more to financial conditions, because, when we look at statistics, 

 we find that the crop was not overly large. Our crop this last season 

 was about 41,000,000 barrels. In 1912 we had 47,000,000 barrels and 

 in 1896 we have 69,000,000 barrels, so you can readily see that we 

 did not have an exceptionally large apple crop, and still the prices 

 were very low. But if you have overplanted, that does not mean 

 that we are not going to make any money out of it. There is money 

 in every business; it depends upon the management whether or not 

 you are going to get it out. Nobody is going to grow apples at a 

 loss ; if you cannot grow apples at a profit, you are going to get out 

 of the business. But the fellow who does stick, who does pay atten- 

 tion to all the things that go to make good apple growing, is going 

 to make money out of apples. 



There are two things that I think are very important in the grow- 

 ing of apples. First of all, I believe we have got to grow apples 

 of the very finest quality; and, secondly, I believe we have got to be 

 in a position to store those up and hold them until the market is 

 right or as near right as we can get it. Any of you men who have 

 watched the apple market during the last number of years have no- 

 ticed that almost every year apples have gone up a little bit late in 

 the season, and the man in a position to store his apples and hold 

 them till that time usually made some money out of them. 



