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number of neighboring vineyardists sprayed their vines. The results 

 were all that the most sanguine had anticipated. 



The Nauvoo Rustler said editorially: "Those who did not spray this 

 season have lost from 80 to 95 per cent, of their crops by rot, while those 

 who sprayed did not lose more than from one to five per cent. The effi- 

 ciency of spraying apple, peach, pear, plum, and cherry trees has also been 

 established by experiments among our horticulturists, and hereafter the 

 practice of spraying their trees will no doubt be general, as all concede 

 that the secret of success has not only been discovered, but also demon- 

 strated before their very eyes. 



The past season we sprayed again, and of the results the editor of the 

 Quincy Farmer's Call, who visited our vineyards the first week of Septem- 

 ber, said editorially: "We do not think we have ever before seen grape- 

 vines so heavily laden, and not one grape in a hundred was affected with 

 rot; while only a short distance away, vineyards on the same soil and 

 under like conditions, except that they had not been sprayed, were so 

 badly affected with rot that their crops will not be worth gathering. In 

 some vineyards a row or a part of a row through the middle had not been 

 sprayed, as a test, and in every case the vines not sprayed were badly 

 affected with rot, and the fruit will not be worth gathering; while on 

 either side, the foliage of those sprayed was little affected, and they were 

 heavily loaded with well nigh perfect fruit. We saw many other evidences 

 that spraying is an effective, and the best, way of combatting the insect 

 pests and fungous diseases of fruits. Undoubtedly the fullest plum tree 

 we have ever seen was one that had never matured a crop before, on 

 account of the curculio. etc. It was thoroughly sprayed this year and the 

 result is what we have stated — an enormous yield of perfect fruit. We 

 saw Damson plum trees that had been well sprayed, that were loaded 

 down with fruit and holding perfectly, while other Damson trees near by, 

 not sprayed were droppingtheir fruit so fast that very little will be matured. 

 We saw the same phenomena exhibited by pear and apple trees. Cer- 

 tainly if we could take the farmers and fruitgrowers of this country to Mr. 

 Stahl's fruit farms, and show them the effects of spraying that we saw, 

 every intelligent man among them would have a spraying outfit before 

 another season, and would no more think of failing to spray his fruit trees 

 and plants than he would of failing to cultivate his corn or potatoes. 



Sueh is the testimony of everyone that has seen my fruit fields. I have 

 letters from above one thousand fruitgrowers that have tried spraying the 

 past season. I can not refrain from quoting from a few of the letters I 

 have received from this state: 



M. Nelson, Menominee, Menominee county: "I have 6prayed my orchard of 1,000 

 trees, and I have not 6een one wormy apple this season. One tree I sprayed four times, 

 and have now picked twenty bushels from it — the only crop for four years. " 



H. E. Potter, Whitehall, Muskegon county: "Sprayed my orchard of 100 trees: the 

 apples are all perfect, when in former years at least one third would be wormy. " 



Francis W. Hall, Sheridan, Montcalm county: "Have sprayed apple, plum, and 

 cherry trees; have saved 50 per cent, of the apples. Cherries and plums were free 

 from worms. " 



E. D. L. Evans, Houseman, Oceana county: " We sprayed the Baldwin, Stark, Wage- 

 ner, Ben Davis, and Greening apples, and also plums, pears, and cherries, all with 

 excellent results. Our apples are of the nicest quality — large and smooth. Our 

 orchard is the only one that has any fruit on it at all. " 



H. W. Jones, Houghton, Houghton county: "Have used your sprayer on 300 apple, 

 pear, plum, and cherry trees this season, and have been greatly pleased with the results. 

 Have also used it on my currant bushes, and never had prettier bushes. Have kept five 

 acres of potatoes free from bugs, cheaper and more effectively with the sprayer than I 

 have ever done before with other appliances. ' : 



