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Of the fruit from the unsprayed trees, 87.5 per cent was rather badly 
affected with scab and 37.6 per cent was affected with brown-rot, as 
shown in figures 10 and 12. In other words, the unsprayed crop 
was almost a total loss. 
The Bilyeu variety was given the same treatment as that applied 
to Salway and the results were about the same. In this case the fruit 
was not sorted and counted, but at picking time comparative notes 
were made, attempting to show the estimated percentages of brown- 
rot and scab. Fully 50 per cent of the unsprayed fruit was lost on 
account of these diseases, while there was a loss of only about 5 per 
cent of the fruit sprayed twice, although much of it showed some 
Fic. 9.—Crop from four Salway trees spraved twice, Okonoko, W. Va. Scabby fruit single basket on 
the left; remainder of the crop sound. 
slight spotting with scab. On the plat sprayed three times the 
scab was almost entirely prevented. Jn most cases three treatments 
will be necessary for the best results against scab on late-maturing 
varieties like the Bilyeu. 
EXPERIENCE OF FRUIT GROWERS. 
Following the recommendations of the United States Department 
of Agriculture, a considerable number of fruit growers have adopted 
the combination treatment, and in Georgia during 1910 perhaps not 
less than one-fourth of the peach orchards were sprayed for the 
curculio, brown-rot, and scab. In connection with the department’s 
experiments at Fort Valley, Barnesville, and Baldwin, Ga., an effort 
was made to give personal instruction to as many orchardists as pos- 
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