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to how easily it is. After cutting out the weeds and pruning, 

 spraying 3 times constituted the care this year. We sprayed 

 the first time just before the blossoms opened with a 4-4-50 

 mixture of Bordeaux and in spraying that time we aimed to 

 use the power sprayer, but we broke one of the engines and 

 lost a day or two; therefore we had to take two small Moreley 

 pumps and spray with hand power, so almost a third of our 

 orchard was sprayed the first time with a hand sprayer. The 

 second spraying was begun a little after the blossoms fell. 

 A part of this spraying was done with a hand pump, but it 

 was not satisfactory at all. We got our results where we used 

 our power sprayer. We kept the pressure up pretty well,— - 

 from 160 to 200 pounds. The University boys looked after 

 that, we didn't spray any with less than 160 pounds presswe. 

 The 3rd spraying was applied about 3 weeks after the second. 

 We intended to spray again the latter part of July, but could 

 not find any worms or any indications of them so we dis- 

 pensed with that spraying, going on the cheap plan like the 

 Nebraska people nearly always do. I suppose we would have 

 had a little better fruit if we had sprayed again, yet when it 

 came gathering time we found less than 2 per cent of worms 

 and not enough scabs to mention. We had some defective 

 apples because we had a hail storm, of fine hail. They were 

 not damaged badly, but were pecked just enough to keep them 

 off the fancy market. 



What Ave noticed in spraying led us to believe that we 

 had better watch the varieties for scab. We noticed that the 

 Winesap needed more Bordeaux and fortunately it was harder 

 to injure them with Bordeaux than the Ben Davis. We 

 noticed that the Grimes Golden was more easily injured with 

 Bordeaux and did not need so much. It seems that we could 

 not hurt the Winesap but could easily hurt the Grimes Golden 

 with the mixture and the Grimes did not need as much. 

 For the second spraying we used Bordeaux on the Winesaps 

 only, using a 3-3-50 formula with 2 pounds of arsenate of 

 lead. On the balance of the orchard we used 2 pounds of 



