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and th(\y never lose their leaves as bad as the commercial 

 orchards because it is smaller, — like a small bunch of hogs 

 or chickens are usually healthier, —but the orchards that 

 were not sprayed lost their leaves, and those that were 

 sprayed did not lose their leaves and they look fine now. The 

 raspberry, blackberry and strawberry bushes look fine and 

 seem to be in fine condition for a crop for another year. 



Mr. Beltzer: I believe vou said the strawberries were in 

 number 1 condition now. 



Mr. Marshall : Yes, sir. 



Mr. Beltzer: Have you seen them lately? 



Mr. Marshall : I haven't seen them, but on our place we 

 have a cover of snow over them. 



Mr, Beltzer: You didn't cover them at all this year did 

 you? 



Mr. Marshall : No, sir, but we hope to have a chance to 

 cover them before sprins:; after the snow goes oft* before it 

 freezes up. But if the snow does not go off I don't suppose 

 we will cover them at all. 



REPORT FROM DISTRICT NO. 4. 



COMPRISING LANCASTER, GAGE, SALINE^ AND JEFFERSON 



COUNTIES. 



The season of 1909 opened fairly well with some loss by 

 freeze, but on the whole, the conditions were a little above the 

 average. 



Since there are very few commercial orchards within the 

 district, very little spraying has been done. The average 

 farmer has not as yet acquired the habit of spraying his 

 orchard either to control fungous diseases or to guard against 

 codling moth and other insect enemies. Most of our farmers 

 are still drifting in the old way, expecting that because in an 

 early day they were immune from insect enemies and fungous 

 diseases, they will continue immune. 



The month of June and the very early days of July were 



