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sects, and there is the scab and other fungus diseases to contend with. 

 I have been spraying for six years. In 1900, 1901 and 1902 I used the 

 wet spray — water for the conveyor. In 1903, 1904 and 1905, the dry 

 or dust spray, using Hme as a conveyor. In 1900 we had a few apples, 

 fair quaht}', trees four to seven years old. In 1901 we had a car of 

 very handsome apples. In 1902 we had two cars, one-half apples, the 

 other half coddling moth. So, gentlemen, this coddling moth business 

 gave me much concern. I attended your meetings the following De- 

 cember in Springfield, wishing especially to learn how to rid my orchard 

 of this pest. At that meeting I heard Mr. Maxwell read a paper on 

 dust spraying, telling how, by living in his orchard, he had kept the 

 coddling moth subdued and had a fine crop of apples. At that time I 

 had just resigned my position as a traveling salesman and intended to 

 devote my time to orcharding, not intending that Mr. Maxwell or any 

 one else should come nearer living in his orchard than I intended doing, 

 as it was to be my life work. Mr. P. A. Rogers and myself each bought 

 a dusting machine, the same as Mr. Maxwell used, the Cyclone, made 

 in Kansas City, and Mr. Maxwell kindly sent us the formula he used. 

 I used the Maxwell formula in 1903 and 1904, and in 1905 I bought 

 my dust of the Kansas City Dust Spray Manufacturing Company, know- 

 ing that it would be detrimental to their interest to send out any dust 

 that was not up to date, as the success of their process was at stake. 



In 1903, after second spraying, the poor little apples were cooked 

 on the trees — you all remember that May morning. In 1904 we sprayed 

 five times and had 1,200 barrels of fine apples, that I sold for $1.50 on 

 the table, when the apples in my' county were selling for from 65 cents 

 to 90 cents per barrel for the same varieties, and I sold the culls I had 

 to these county buyers at 75 cents per barrel. My apples were sold to 

 S. Segari of New Orleans, through their agent, Mr. Frank Ernst. And 

 the apples all graded "fancy." These were two-thirds Ben Davis, bal- 

 ance Gano and Givens. I had 125 barrels Jonathan that brought $1.25. 

 In 1905 we spra3-ed five times; last spraying was the first week in July. 

 We had about 1,800 barrels of fine apples. The Ben Davis orchard of 

 1,200 barrels was sold on the trees. My sixteen-acre orchard — nine 

 years since setting this month — made over 600 barrels that I put in cold 

 storage. They are very nice, and I expect to realize for them $2,000 

 or more, and I never, in all my experience, saw as scabby and worm- 

 eaten lot of apples as was marketed in my county. It was difficult to 

 find a sound apple among them. 



At our fruit fair I made a display of apples in packages — ten boxes 

 and two barrels. I am sure there were more perfect apples in one box 

 of my apices than there were in that large display of several hundred 



