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A. We sold by the barrel ; we did the packing and barreling and 

 delivered them to a firm in Indiana. 



Q. How nnich would the entire crop bring? 



A. About ,1|!32..50. 



A Member — I understood that you sprayed the first time with diamond 

 sulphur before the leaves were out; second time with bordeaux; third 

 time with lime sulphur diluted, and then next time with arsenate of lead 

 and the next time with arsenate of lead. 



A: Yes that is right. 



Q. I would like to ask whether it would be advisable to take an old 

 run-down orchard and commence at the present time spraying for the 

 scale? 



Mr. Farrand — Yes. begin any time. Right now would be all right, 

 when the foliage is off. I cannot see how we can spray an apple tree to 

 very good effect for the scale when the foliage is hanging. If the foliage 

 is all off and you have your pruning done, do it now. Generally speak- 

 ing when it is cold we<Tther you have so much trouble Avith your nozzles 

 and other parts of your spraying apparatus that you do not gain much. 

 It is a matter of time. As far as value of spraying is concerned, now 

 will do the work as well as any other time. 



Mr. Smythe — If you didn't spray before you might get so discouraged 

 that you wouldn't go at it in the spring. 



Mr. Farrand — There may be something in that. 



A Member — I would like to ask Miss Taylor if she has any russeting 

 of apples back of a wind break? 



Miss Taylor — Do you mean russeting from the cold or whatever it mav 

 be? 



Member — What I want to know is, does the protection from wind 

 breaks do any good? In other words do you think that the protrction 

 from a wind break has anything to do ^vith preventing russeting? 



IMiss Taylor— We have had a few apples that showed a kind of rust 

 and it was supposed to be from the cold weather which we had. 



Q. Did you see any difference where the trees were exposed to ihe 

 wind and cold than right near this wind break? 



Miss Taylor — The whole orchard is protected so I could not tell. 



A Member — I have seen some orchards where there was a wind break 

 that protected them from the north east and seemingly the apples were 

 not so badly russeted there as where they were more exposed. In other 

 places there did not seem to be any diffei-ences and I was wondering 

 whether a protection of that kind really did help us. 



Miss Taylor — Of course as far as my experience is concerned I could 

 not say for certain. 



A Member— Miss Taylor laid stress on rye as a cover crop. Why not 

 use sand vetch and get the value of the nitrogen that it gathers from the 

 air? 



A. We are using that now. We are using sand vetch in the peach or- 

 chard but have not had it in this particular orchard until this fall. 

 Q. Do you grade your apples or straight-pack? 

 A. We grade as demanded. 



Q. What was the relative for No. I's and No. 2's? 

 A, There was no difference; they were all packed together and we 



