THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST, 



Trees should be carefully inspected for 

 blight during the winter, and in spring be- 

 fore the blossoms come out, in order to de- 

 stroy any affected parts that may have been 

 missed at previous inspection. 



All wild trees of the pome family in the 

 vicinity should be examined as well, as 



these, if blighted, may serve to reinfect an 

 orchard which has been carefully treated. 



In cases where the bark of the trunk is af- 

 fected it can be cut out and the wound cov- 

 ered with a lead and oil paint. The cut sur- 

 face of branches over one-half inch in dia- 

 meter should be painted. 



TEN TO ONE IN FAVOR OF SPRAYING 



MY attention was called in your De- 

 cember number to an article, Does 

 it Pay to Spray? 



I used an apple orchard of 300 trees 

 owned by my father and myself as a com- 

 parison, and to the interest to the fruit grow- 

 ers I feel it my duty to make a reply before 

 next spraying season, giving cost, etc. 



Cost of Spraying and Quantities Used. 



5,000 gallons water. 



1,750 lbs. lime, 25c. per bush $ 6 25 



400 lbs. vitriol, 6^40. per lb 25 00 



20 lbs. white arsenic, 10c. per lb 2 00 



20 lbs. Paris green, 16c. per lb 3 20 



40 lbs. sal soda, 2%c. per lb 1 00 



8 days team and man, $2.50 per day . . . . 20 00 



16 days work, $1.25 per day 20 00 



$77 45 

 Cost Harvesting. 



Picking and packing $ 65 25 



500 empty bbls., contracted in Aug. 160 00 

 106 empty bbls 42 40 



267 65 



Total expense $345 10 



Sold. 



606 bbls. apples, at $2.50 per bbl $1,515 00 



114 bush, evaporating apples, at 20c. 



per bush 22 80 



Total receipts $1,537 80 



Canning factory prices, figuring 3 bushels 

 in each barrel, with 114 bushels windfalls 

 and culls, would be 1,932 bushels at 25c. per 

 bushel, $483.00, less 2 cents per bushel for 



picking up expense, would leave $444.36 

 net from the canning factory, while the net 

 on the barreled apples, after deducting all 

 expenses, would be $1,192.70. An invest- 

 ment of $77.45 for six months gives us a 

 profit of $748.34 more than we would have 

 got if it had been taken to the canning fac- 

 tory ; nearly ten dollars for every dollar in- 

 vested for spraying. Owing to my being \n 

 the apple business we probably got 50 cents 

 per barrel more than most other growers 

 would have got ; even at 50c. less this would 

 leave $445.34 profit in favor of spraying to 

 the grower. The expense we were to in 

 pruning, fertilizing and cultivating only 

 went last season in this section towards pro- 

 ducing the fungus canning factory apples, 

 and I consider the $748.34 was realized 

 from spraying, as I see unsprayed orchards 

 in this locality that had in previous years 

 better care in pruning, fertilizing and culti- 

 vating than our orchard that would not pack 

 (according to Fruit Marks Act) one barrel 

 of No. I apples out of fifty barrels of fruit 

 as picked from the trees. Such fruit would be 

 too expensive work to sort, consequently they 

 should go to the canning factory, as experi- 

 ence has taught the apple buyers that no 

 matter how cheap they buy the fungus ap- 

 ples it will, before the end of the season, 

 show up a loss. My opinion is, had the 



