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A iMeiiiber : \\ hat price did you get compared with the 

 better apples? 



Mr. Marshall : We got from 50 to 75 cents per 100 pounds 

 for the culls. 



Mr. Williams: What did you get for your best apples? 



Mr. Marshall : I never measured the orchard, but I expect 

 there is about 40 acres. In the items of expense there ap- 

 peared one power sprayer, and I think our net return was a 

 little more than |3,500. 



A Member: How many acres are there? 



Mr. Marshall : W ell, between 40 and 50 acres, but part of 

 the orchard is only 11 years old. The bulk of it is over 11 years 

 old, — from eleven to sixteen years. A\ e didn't have a half a 

 crop of apples this year, we got 12,000 bushels ; we got 6,000 

 bushels off of 8 acres that was sixteen years planted, they 

 were planted in 1893. There was about 575 or 600 trees on 

 that 8 acres, while there were acres of ground that did not 

 have over 50 bushels to the whole acre. Mr. Howard has been 

 in the orchard and he knows that tree after tree did not have 

 an apple on it at all. The youngest orchard only yielded 

 1,300 bushels and there is eleven acres in that, and the fruit 

 was all on certain trees. 



Mr. Atkinson : Did you spray the third time, whether they 

 had apples on or not? 



Mr. Marshall : No, we sprayed all of them the second time. 



A Member : What was it Professor Whitten told us about 

 that curculio? 



Professor Whitten : Most of our orclmrdists did not spray. 

 They did not give much care to their orchards. We have some 

 men who do, and those men Avho take care of their orchards 

 find that they can kill the curculio by spraying very well. 

 You see you will get some of the curculio on the first spray- 

 ing. I think you ought to use the arsenate of lead for the 

 first spraying, two pounds to 50 gallons of bordeaux. 



A Member: Is that after the petals fall? 

 ■ Professor Whitten : No, before, and with the next spray- 



