FORTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT. 115 



USE OF DUST SPRAY, 



During the past five years there lias been a little interest aroused in 

 New York from the use of a dust spray made of four parts of fineHy 

 ground sulphur and one part of dry arsenate of lead as compared with 

 the liquid lime-sulphur and arsenate of lead. The expeuse of such a dust 

 spray is more than it would be for a liquid and special nmchiuery is 

 necessary to apply it. The great advantage is that more trees can be 

 covered in a stated time, probably four times as many. 



The results, while as yet not extensivei enough to draw broad con- 

 clnsion nor make recommendations, are promising. 



Did time and your patience permit, many more matters might be 

 brought to your attention such as the orchard heating question; the 

 development of sizing machines but especially the spread of the idea of 

 the importance and value of cooperation. True there have been many 

 bad failures and there will continue to be many, and much work remains 

 to be done but the spirit of cooperation and the real necessity for it 

 among fruit growere and farmers is growing faster now than ever before. 



Competition is going to become keener, fruit must be produced at a 

 low ])rice, must be handled and sold at a minimum overhead expense, 

 standards must be fixed and followed. The uniform hodge-podge way 

 of the past years is rapidly nearing its absolute death. The masses must 

 be in every way encouraged to use finiit and to accomplish this, they 

 must have the opportunity to secure it at a reasonable price. 



Q. Does that spraying hasten the rijjening of apples? 



A. No. Only the early growth in the spring. 



PEAOH CULTURE. 



W. W. FARNSWORTH^ WATERVILLE^ OHIO. 



I am very glad to be with you again and when the Secretary inform- 

 ed me that there would be a vacancy on the program, I was very glad to 

 leave my orchard and come. 



Before beginning on the topic that was assigned me, I want to say a 

 word on fruit storage. I have used a storage and find it to be a decided 

 help and saving of time in the harvesting of fruit. We are close to ship- 

 ping facilities so can store our g-^oods and ship it to the market as called 

 for. 



In regard to keeping record of the crop, I am not sure how much there 

 is in it and and the only way to find out is to try it out in your own 

 orchard. Of course it would require extra work but would probably pay. 

 I think most of us usually estimate about how much a crop will be. I 

 found after picking last year that I only varied about 10% from my esti- 

 nmte. Of course that jirobably would not be close enough in a scientific 

 experiment to tell us of any striking variation. The extra time it w^ould 

 take would be slight and the satisfaction at the end of a term of years 

 would be great in knowing whether your trees are reasonably imiform. 

 It is sometimes found that some trees are far superior to others. 



