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BETTER FRUIT 



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NEW MEADOWS, IDAHO 



April, 1921 



Knowing Spray Quanti- 

 ties Important 



By Leroy Childs, Superintendent Hood 

 River Experiment Station 



IN CONNECTION with the investi- 

 gational work on sprays and spray 

 practices carried on at Hood River 

 some interesting figures have been gath- 

 ered relative to the amount of diluted 

 spray required to obtain effective con- 

 trol of the various orchard pests pres- 

 ent. 



On all the problems of spraying 

 which come to the attention of the or- 

 chardist, the actual requirements of 

 trees of different ages for different 

 spray mixtures are least known and per- 

 haps least seriously considered. To this 

 lack of understanding can often be 

 traced the failure to check the ravages 

 of the many familiar insects and di- 

 seases. Thorough spraying is to be de- 

 sired, but over spraying is a waste of 

 expensive materials and time. Incom- 

 plete spraying, on the other hand, is a 

 double disaster, a waste of materials 

 and time, and a failure to control the 

 pests. Every orchardist should more 

 closely check up his average tree usage 

 for every spray applied (during the 

 season. There is no more clear-cut 

 method of telling just what has been 

 done in the orchard, from the stand- 

 point of spraying than an analysis of 

 this sort. With sprays of a similar na- 

 ture in an orchard of more or less uni- 

 form trees, a very high degree of uni- 

 formity in the number of trees covered 

 should be maintained with each tank 

 of spray applied. If this is not main- 

 tained, there is something decidedly 

 wrong in the technique of the applica- 

 cation. During years of light crops 

 growers who "spray for fruit" in their 

 codling-moth control are frequently at 

 a loss to account for the many wormy 

 apples present in picking time. A study 

 of the average quantity of spray used 

 per tree in an orchard thus sprayed as 

 compared to a well-sprayed orchard 

 usually proves a revelation of start- 

 ling inadequacy. Spraying for fruit 

 in the case of both apple-scab and cod- 

 ling-moth or for the control of other 

 insects or diseases, for that matter is 

 not an advisable practice. In the early 

 applications it is almost impossible to 

 determine accurately whether a tree has 

 fruit on it or not. If the missed or part- 

 ly sprayed tree turns out to have a box 

 or even a portion of a box of fruit on it. 

 a large portion of the fruit will be 

 ■wormy. Not only is this fruit lost, but 

 the very fact that a good number of 

 worms have been propagated and have 

 spread to surrounding well-spra) ed 

 trees results in a general increase in the 

 percentage of wormy apples and a very 



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