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one from vines sprayed with tiie Bordeaux mixture throughout the 

 season, and which were very badly disfigured, and the other from 

 vines iliat were treated with the Bordeaux mixture up to the middle 

 of June, tlien with two applications of the amnioniacal carbonate of 

 copper and which were not in the least disfigured. 



An analysis of these two samples was made at the State Experi- 

 ment Station. In the first, sample No. 1, there was found only -j-q^js 

 of 1% of oxide of copper, an amount so small that one would need 

 to eat from one-half to one ton of these grapes, stems, skins and all, 

 to obtain the least injurious eflect, and that, notwithstanding the fact 

 that the bunches were selected from those having the largest amount 

 of the copper mixture adhering to them. 



In sample No. 2 not a trace of copper could be found. It would 

 seem from the above that even under the most careless use of the 

 copper solutions, no injurious effects need be feared, and that when 

 properly applied there will not be a trace of copper left upon the 

 fruit at harvesting. 



APPLES. 



Early in December, the Pall Mall Gazette of London. England, 

 published an article headed '•'■American Apples. Alarming Allega- 

 tions — Are They Doctored with Arsenic." Then the statement is 

 made " that American orchardists use arsenic in such large quanti- 

 ties to protect their fruit from insects as to completely saturate it, and 

 that the bloom or white powder found on the surface of American 

 apples is arsenic, brought to the surface by evaporation, and if the 

 fruit is eaten, this should be wiped off to avoid injurious effects. 

 " That the delicate, unnatural (?) bloom of the American apples is 

 due to arsenic, a drug that is largely used by people, especially the 

 fair sex in America, to make the complexion fair," and other state- 

 ments equally absurd and without a shadow of foundation. These 

 statements were undoubtedly made in the interest of speculators for 

 the purpose of injuring the sale of American apples in the English 

 market. 



To determine the amount ot copper and arsenic adhering to the 

 surface of apples (for it could not have been absorbed into the sub- 

 stance of the fruit) which had been sprayed three times with the Bor- 

 deaux mixture and Paris green, twenty apples, measuring one peck, 

 were taken to the State Experiment Station for analysis. The 

 amount of copper oxide found on these apples was fourteen ten- 



