GOOD RESULTS FROM SPRAYING IN EASTERN ONTARIO. 



unsprayed. With the result of the 

 spraying I am more than delighted, the 

 apples of the sprayed trees were round 

 and large, the foliage a good rich color, 

 and the trees made more growth than 

 ever before in one season. In the fall 

 of 1897 I had no apples fit for use, all 

 were small and scabby. In the fall of 

 1898, on all trees sprayed I had perfect 

 large and round fruit, and although the 

 past season was an off year, I had some 

 of my trees propped, they were so loaded. 

 On the unsprayed trees the fruit was 

 poorer, even than in 1897, and perfectly 

 useless. I have bought the machine 

 with which the spraying experiment was 

 conducted, and I intend using it next 

 season, when I expect even better re- 

 sults, as my trees were in very bad 

 shape from the many insects that affect- 



ed them. This fall they look clean and 

 healthy. I am fully convinced that 

 with good systematical spraying and 

 ordinary care of the trees, we can raise 

 as good apples in this section of Canada, 

 and better than in most sections. 



"The spraying experiment of the Gov- 

 ernment was of very great value to this 

 section, and was much appreciated by 

 the people." 



Our protogravures show (Fig. 1548) 

 Baldwins unsprayed, almost bare of fruit 

 and with sickly foliage, and (Fig. 154?) 

 Baldwins sprayed, with healthy foliage 

 and a heavy crop of apples. 



Let us have thorough work all along 

 the line in this work during the summer 

 of 1899, and let no country excel Can- 

 ada in apple production. 



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Fig. 1548. — Bai,dwin not Sprayed. 

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