130 DECIDUOUS FRUIT INSECTS AND INSECTICIDES, 
EXPERIMENTS IN VIRGINIA. 
The experiments in Virginia were carried out in two localities, 
namely, at Crozet, in the orchard of W. 8S. Ballard, and at Mount 
Jackson, in the orchard of the Strathmore Orchard Company. 
W.S. BaLuarp’s ORCHARD. 
W. 5S. Ballard’s orchard is located in the eastern foothills of the 
Blue Ridge Mountains and is composed mostly of the Yellow New- 
town (Albemarle Pippin) variety, which sort was used exclusively 
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Fic. 35.—Diagram showing arrangement of plats and trees in the W. S. Ballard orchard near Crozet, Va. 
Trees counted are indicated by circles, the numbers agreeing with the numbers of trees in the tables. 
Variety, Yellow Newtown (Albemarle Pippin). Trees marked S sprayed by owner. 
in the experiments. The location of the trees sprayed, with refer- 
ence to adjacent trees in the orchard, is shown in figure 35. The 
surrounding trees not included in the experiment were sprayed by 
the owner. The size of the trees and general character of the loca- 
tion are shown in Plate X, figure 2. 
