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One more valuable result is the keeping quality of sprayed fruit, my 

 apples last year having kept better than for years, or ever, in fact. 



You may be sure I did not neglect a single tree this year. I have not 

 a large apple orchard, but have thought it was too large till now. After 

 my recent experience I almost wish my whole farm covered with apple 

 trees. I have quite a large peach orchard, having marketed this year 

 over a thousand bushels of peaches, but I believe there is more clear 

 profit in a good apple orchard, if properly cultivated and cared for, than 

 in a peach orchard ; for, while a peach orchard will yield returns sooner 

 than an apple orchard, it will be about worthless at fifteen or sixteen 

 years of age, while an apple tree, if set out by a young man just starting 

 in life, will bear him fruit his whole lifetime, a continual source of profit 

 and pleasure and comfort. 



But I wish to impress more thoroughly upon your minds the old adage, 

 that whatever is worth doing is worth doing well. In no work in life 

 does it more aptly apply than in spraying fruit trees. The pictures so 

 often seen in advertisements in agricultural papers, of a mc.n standing 

 on a wagon and driving through the orchard, throwing a little spray upon 

 his trees as he passes them, is a delusion and a snare. In order to do, 

 thorough work you must go all around your trees, and throw spray from 

 every direction, and not depend upon just throwing a little on the tops 

 of the trees, as the foliage will keep spray from reaching the apples, and 

 consequently will do no good in destroying the codlin moth. 



