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BETTER FRUIT 



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Each grower was checked up as to 

 the amount of acreage to cover and 

 equipment with which to do it. If the 

 equipment, was not right, or was insu- 

 fTicient, he was advised to get the nec- 

 essary equipment and in most cases fol- 

 lowed the advice. Spray dates were de- 

 termined and each grower was checked 

 up on his methods of application. Spe- 

 cial attention was given to each in- 

 dividual straight through the season. 

 Attention was also given to thinning 

 and picking off what first brood worms 

 got by the early sprays. 



The consequence is that Sunnyslope 

 in 1919, instead of being the wormiest 

 section in the district, is the cleanest 

 of all the old infested areas. Worm 

 infestation in Sunnyslope will not ex- 

 ceed 2 per cent for the whole commun- 

 ity. There are a number of orchards 

 in this section that will have scarcely 

 a perceptible portion of 1 per cent in- 

 festation this year, and I do not know 

 of a single orchard in the community 

 that will exceed 5 per cent. 



These growers are well pleased with 

 the result, and while I have not made 

 a careful canvass of the situation, a 

 number of the growers have voluntarily 

 told me that they want the service 

 again next year. 



Now, my idea is this. If we can re- 

 duce a whole community, of 1400 acres, 

 from 20 per cent to less than 2 per cent 

 infestation the first year, I am confident 

 enough to believe that if we can carry 

 the work on next year under the same 

 conditions, we can reduce the worm in- 

 festation in Sunnyslope to a very small 

 point and perhaps in the course of two 

 or three years, practically exterminate 

 the moth in this area. Such a thing is 

 possible. British Columbia has proven 

 and is proving that it can be done. Is 

 it worth trying? I'll say it is, even if 

 we should never reach the goal. 



Let us see if this work as far as we 

 have gone, has been profitable to Sun- 

 nyslope. As stated above, Sunnyslope 

 took a loss of 20 per cent on a four 

 hundred carload crop, which amounted 

 to a loss in money to about ^lOO.OOO. In 

 1919, the loss was reduced to 2 per cent 

 or a gain of 18 per cent over 1918. Sun- 

 nyslope produced this year seven hun- 

 dred and fifty carloads of apples and 

 18 per cent gain on 750 cars of apples 

 will amount to about $200,000. 



Codling moth control or extermina- 

 tion? Which? 



If it be possible to exterminate the 

 worms in a community of 1400 acres, 

 the edges of that community can be 

 continually pushed back, so that that 

 area can be made continually larger. 

 Other areas can be treated in the same 

 way. There are no limits to the possi- 

 bilities. It is possible to exterminate 

 the worms from a whole country or 

 even from a whole state if we become 

 properly organized to do it. 



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