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The old orrlianl liiis Itccii liadly iiiiV-sted with worms Cor inaiiy years, ai\d until the 

 j»rfs»'iit season the north halt'otiny orchard has been practically wortiiless, the trees 

 siicddinjj; most of their tVnit in May and early ])art of.Inne. the little which remained 

 Itcin-;- so wormy as to he lai'jfely unfit tor market, while the sotith hall" has Ijorne lair 

 crops, comparatively free from worms. 



Soil, draiuaj^c, and other conditions hcin<;' simij.ir t lirouf;'hout, 1 am constrained to 

 the belief that the near jtroximity of the old and worm-infested trees to the nortii 

 side of my orchard is tln' cause of the ditl'erence ahov«' noted. 



Actiufj upon information ohtain«'d from one of your pamphlets, I bought last sj)rinfi 

 u full spraying outfit, using the Climax i)rei)aration of Loudon purple sold by the 

 Nixon Com})any. 



Soon after the blossoms fell I began spraying on the side nearest the old orcharil, 

 the machine working i>erfectly, the Climax nozzle breaking up the solution into a 

 tine mist whi<h completely enveloped the trees. 



After working a day and a half and applying the poison to about one-third of the 

 trees, I snsjiended operations on account of the weather beeomiug so windy as to 

 make the work exceedingly disagreeable, oue of the meu being made sick by Laving 

 the ])t)ison 1)lown into his face. 



Intltu'uced to some extent by the ske))tieism of my neighl)ors, most of whom re- 

 garded the experiment as highly dangerous, aud confessing to no small lack of faith 

 myself. I regret to say that I allowed other work on the farm to interfere, and never 

 finished the work of spraying. 



With the mental reservation that should the heretofore barren north side where 

 the poison had been applied do as well as the south half, I would spray more thor- 

 oughly next year, I waited the outcome with an iudiffereuce born of uul)elief. 

 Please note the result. From the sprayed trees, not quite one-third the whole num- 

 ber, I gathered 1,000 barrels of A 1 merchantable fruit so entirely free from worms 

 that sorting was almost unnecessary, while tlu' remaining two-thirds of the orchard 

 yiehled 8><3 barrels of good fruit, (luite one-tifth of the ajtples on the unspraye<l trees 

 being wormy aud unfit for sale. The market price of apples in this section the past 

 season was from 60 to Ta cents per bari'el, oue t)r two choice lots of lieu Davis and 

 York Imperial bringing $1 per barrel, while my fruit sold iu the orchard nearly a 

 month before picking at $2..>o per barrel. 



I estimate the cost of failure to spray the whole orchard at $2,.500, but consider 

 the lesson cheap at the price, as I shall never have it to learn again, and feel confi- 

 dent that with ordinary care no harmful results will follow the spraying. — [John S. 

 Lupton, Virginia, November 20, 1891. 



The Tin Can Remedy for Cut-TTyorms. 



To protect cabbage, tomato, and other small plants, after transplanting them, 

 from the ravages of " Cut-worms " can be accomplished cheaply and effectually by 

 inclosing the plant and fencing out the depredators. Around almost every dwell- 

 ing are to be found numbers of discarded tin cans that have been used for preserv- 

 ing fruit, oysters, and the like. If these cans ])e collected aud each held for a few 

 minutes over a hot tire the bottoms aud to]»s will droji off and then the rest of the 

 can should be slipped over a round stick of wood aud with a chisel cut in the miildle 

 aud the two halves hannnered smooth and round, and it will then make the fence to 

 protect the plants. See that no " Cut-worms " are in the ground near the plants, 

 then place this fence around the jdant aud push it a little into the earth, and the 

 l»lant wall be protected aud beyon<l the reach of its sjioilers. After all danger from 

 "Cut-worms" is past the fencing can be taken away aiul housed for future use. 



There is no better or more profitable use that old cans can be put to than doing 

 the work of protecting our garden plants from oue of their greatest enemies. 



