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500,000 trees, making on a conservative estimate a grand total of 
4,500,000 to 5,000,000 trees sprayed during 1910 with the self-boiled 
lime-sulphur wash and arsenate of lead. 
We have been able to personally examine some of these orchards, 
and have had reports from many of the orchardists regarding the 
results of the treatment. So far as it has been possible to determine, 
the results have been uniformly satisfactory and the slight injury 
from the spray comparatively unimportant. It seems rather remark- 
able that so many growers in different parts of the country should be 
so successful in using a new treatment for the first time. This may be 
taken to indicate the entire practicability of the recommendations. 
EFFECT OF SPRAYING ON THE QUALITY OF THE FRUIT. 
The good results from the treatment do not end with the control of 
the curculio, scab, and brown-rot. The sprayed fruit is as a rule 
Fic. 11.—Crop from four Salway trees sprayed twice, Okonoko, W. Va. Rotten fruit in upturned basket 
on the left; remainder free from rot. 
somewhat larger, much more highly colored, and firmer than unsprayed 
fruit. It keeps longer, carries to the market in better condition, and 
brings better prices. A carload of Elberta peaches shipped from 
Baldwin, Ga., on July 29 contained 166 crates of sprayed fruit and 
324 crates of unsprayed fruit. This fruit was sold on the New York 
market on August 2, the 166 crates of sprayed fruit bringing $2.50 per 
crate, while the 324 crates of unsprayed fruit brought an average’of 
$1.75 per crate, a difference of 75 cents per crate in favor of the 
sprayed fruit.” 
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