December 11, 1909 



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was used in the article, has been the 

 recipient of a number of letters In- 

 quiring as to the truth of the state- 

 ments made. To each letter an affir- 

 mative answer was given. As the ar- 

 ticle is worthy of the widest publicity, 

 it is given here in full: 



"What is considered the most re- 

 markable 1909 apple crop in Pennsyl- 

 vania has just been sold at the orchard 

 of C. C. Gelwicks, St. Thomas. York 

 Township. Franklin County. Gelwicks 

 raised 4500 bushels of apples on a 30- 

 acre plot and sold them at the orchard 

 for $5000. 



"Three years ago, Mr. Gelwicks was 

 unable to get even ten cents a bushel 

 for his apples and decided to chop down 

 all of his trees and raise wheat and 

 corn. 



"The entire orchard in 1906 was af- 

 fected with San Jose scale. The trees 

 were withered looking and the apples 

 very small and wormy. Economic Zo- 

 ologist Surface heard of the decision 

 of Gelwicks. visited the orchard and 

 found it filled with trees about eleven 

 years old. He advised the spraying of 

 the trees with a boiled lime and sul- 

 phur solution. 



"The trees were sprayed in 1907 and 

 that year off of six acres he got 600 

 bushels of the finest kind of apples. 

 Last year the crop was fine again, but 

 this year, when all the neighboring or- 

 chards were bearing only a third to 

 one-half a crop the trees were loaded 

 down with apples, some of the limbs 

 being pressed to the ground by the 

 weight of the fruit. 



"After spraying the trees none of 

 them died and now all are in a most 

 fiourishing condition. The spraying 

 has had a beneficial effect upon all of 

 the orchards in the neighborhood, for 

 all of the farmers, who formerly be- 

 lieved only peach trees could be helped 

 by spraying, now know that the San 

 Jose scale can be driven off of apple 

 trees for good. 



"It is necessary in spraying that 

 the proper solutions be used. S. B. 

 Rinehart, of Mercersburg, recently 

 sprayed 22,CC0 trees in his orchards 

 with an oil solution and practically 

 every tree has been killed." 



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