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DUST SPRAY. 



Now of our work with codlin moth. 



We have been spraying for eight years. From 1899 to 1902, 

 inclusive, we used liquid spray alone, saving about 75 to 80 per 

 cent, of our apples. From 1903 to 1905, inclusive, we used the 

 liquid spray in connection with the band traps, and with six spray- 

 ings, based on a knowledge of the habits of the codlin moth, ac- 

 quired by a careful study of our own place, we were successful in 

 saving from 85 to 90 per cent, of our apples. 



During the season of 1906, we used the dust spray and the 

 band traps, and saved better than 991/2 per cent, of our apples free 

 from worms. 



For two or three years previous to 1906, I would frequently 

 read short statements in farm and horticultural papers in regard to 

 dust spray, and about eight out of every ten of these statements 

 were against the process, and were usually given as the opinion of 

 some prominent man, who, I could see by his position, was not 

 a practical grower, and in all probability, never had a spray pipe, 

 or dust spout in his hands. This made me suspicious of these 

 statements and inclined me to look with favor on the statements of 

 the practical man who occasionally told through papers of his suc- 

 cess with dust spray. It was in the hopes of learning something 

 of this that I attended the last meeting of this Association at 

 North Yakima, last winter. 



There we listened to a very able report on a series of spraying 

 experiments that had been conducted the previous season under the 

 supervision of our State College, but all this was along the line of 

 liquid spray, from the nastiness and laboriousness of which I was 

 seeking deliverance. However, I found two practical and success- 

 ful growers in attendance at that meeting who were making a de- 

 cided success of the dust spray. I refer to Mr, J. M. Brown and 

 Mr. E. Remey. 



I had a talk with these gentlemen and found them so much in 

 earnest in their belief in the superiority of the dust spray that they 

 had but little patience with a man who advocated anything else. 

 This decided me to give it a trial, as I had rather take the word of 

 one man who succeeds than of a dozen who fail. So I bought a 

 "Cyclone" dust spray machine with the intention of giving it a trial 



