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you can easily market your fruit and where you can get help to pick 

 it. and don't plant too extensively until you are sure you can handle 

 the business, and don't expect to have time to read stories, papers, call 

 on your neighbors or embroider during the summer months. I heard a 

 joke on a man who bought some land in Florida, unsight and unseen. 

 After the bargain was all made and the price paid he thought he 

 would go and see his new farm. The land shark took him out in a 

 boat and after paddling around awhile said: "Your farm is under here; 

 when you get it drained it will be all right." Don't buy land un- 

 sight and unseen. Let the men do that. We women may be easy but 

 there are others. 



CODLING MOTH AND APPLE APHIS. 



PROF. R. H. PETTIT, M. A. C. 



Friends — In our ordinary spraying for the codling moth we use two 

 sprays, one spray just as the petals fall, and another spray the first 

 week in August. Beside these, we sometimes put on another about 

 fourteen days after the petal spray, and sometimes one between that 

 and the first week in August. These two last sprays are applied for 

 the scab fungus primarily but we usually add a little poison on gen- 

 eral principles. We time the first spray something after this fashion: 

 The petals fall, and for a while the stamen bars fill the calyx com- 

 pletely full. Sometimes this condition lasts for two days and if the 

 weather is very moist sometimes for ten days but sooner or later the 

 stamen bars will wither leaving the calyx open for two or three days, 

 and just at that time we get the best results with an arsenical spray. 

 I have waited in experimental work for ten days in order that the 

 stamen bars might wither and allow the poison to fall into the calyx 

 cup. Now, with most varieties the young sets are in perfect condi- 

 tion for only about two days. If we could all put on our. sprays at 

 that period we should get the optimum results but the time is too short. 

 We have not enough rigs to get over the orchard or enough skilled 

 men to operate the rigs so we must try to get the poison into the calyx 

 cup in some other way. Professor Melander of Oregon has been ex- 

 perimenting for some time along these lines and while his recommenda- 

 tions for Oregon probably will not suit our conditions in toto, still 

 theoretically there is much to be said in favor of this plan. This idea 

 is to force the spray in between the stamen bars so that it will fall into 

 the calyx cup and thus utilize all the time that elapses between the 

 falling of the petals and the closing of the calyx followed by a downward 

 turning of the fruit. This gives us about ten days instead of two in 

 which the work can be done. Professor Melander also advocates get- 

 ting along with one spraying. I do not think we should find this to 

 any advantage even if we could get along with one spraying, since we 

 have to spray for scab anyway in this country and the cost of the 

 additional poison is so little in comparison with the benefit obtained 

 that we would all of us rather put the poison in for insurance if for 



