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First and Oak Streets 

 Main 165; Auto 51 1-65 



Portland, Oregon 



BETTER FRUIT 



Spraying Tests Developed 

 Important Results 



During the season of 1919 the United 

 States Bureau of Entomology, in co- 

 operation with the Washington Experi- 

 ment Station, carried on an extensive 

 experiment for the control of the cod- 

 ling moth in a 13-year old orchard near 

 Yakima. Tests were made of several 

 arsenical poisons, and of various 

 methods of applying them. These in- 

 cluded the use of guns in place of rods, 

 the use of a spreader, and extra calyx 

 and cover applications. 



"We have carefully compared all 

 these variations with a standard meth- 

 od of spraying, which consisted of one 

 calyx and four cover sprays, five sprays 

 in all, using the rods and powdered 

 arsenate of lead, one pound to fifty 

 gallons. 



We have figured the results, not 

 only in percentages of wormy and clean 

 fruit obtained, but also in dollars and 

 cents. First, we have figured the actual 

 value of the fruit, then the actual cost 

 of spraying, and from these figures we 

 have obtained the net value of the fruit 

 sprayed by each method. Other or- 

 chard costs and damage to fruit from 

 causes other than the codling moth, are 

 not considered, since they would be the 

 same, no matter what method of spray- 

 ing was used. These figures are much 

 more satisfactory than the figures 

 showing the number of the wormy 

 apples, since these latter do not take 

 the cost into consideration. 



Probably most growers, if they have 

 not already decided it for themselves, 

 want to know whether the gun is more 

 efficient than the rod. Many people 

 already realize that it is quicker and 

 takes less spray, but does it do the 

 work? In other words does it pay? Our 

 single year's work shows that it costs 

 about one-fourth less to spray with a 

 gun than with a rod, and that if prop- 

 erly used, the fruit will be just as 

 clean as though sprayed with a rod, if 

 not cleaner. It therefore does pay but 

 the amount saved is not very great, 

 and may be lost with careless work. 



Another question frequently asked is 

 whether it does not pay to use more 

 lead per tank. We used three pounds 

 of powdered lead to every fifty gallons 

 in one plot, and got enough more clean 

 fruit, as far as worms are concerned, 

 to pay for the extra lead. But we had 

 too much poison on the fruit at picking 

 time, and with many varieties the 

 amount of color may be reduced. 



We cannot recommend using lead 

 stronger than one pound to fifty gal- 

 lons. If you have some extra lead you 

 want to use put on six sprays instead 

 of five. It only costs about 10 cents 

 to spray a tree once, and if timed right 

 you can save a dollar's worth of fruit. 

 In the orchard we sprayed, we actually 

 did save the owner more than a dol- 

 lar's worth of fruit on every tree we 

 sprayed six times instead of five. This 

 was with an average yield of fifteen 

 boxes per tree. 



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Use the Bastian Pole Shear 

 and cut the shoots from each 

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