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TABLE 20. 

 Price per barrel of sprayed and unsprayed apples in 1903. 



TABLE 21. 

 Average price per bushel of sprayed and unsprayed apples in 1903. 



The average price per barrel of the sprayed apples was $2.02 ; of the 

 unsprayed, $1.80. From the sprayed orchards 15 per cent of the crop 

 was barreled; from the unsprayed, 12 per cent. Without considering the 

 apples that were evaporated by the grower, the average price of sprayed 

 apples was 31.8 cents per .bushel; of unsprayed, 27.7 cents. 



If we count the apples that were evaporated by the growers as worth 

 20.7 cents, the average price paid for apples by the evaporators, then the 

 income per acre from sprayed orchards averaged $77.84; from the 

 unsprayed, $63. (See tables 20 and 21.) 



Most of the sprayed orchards were sprayed but once. Apples from 

 many of these brought no higher prices than unsprayed ones, but some 

 of those that were well sprayed gave so much better yields and secured 

 so much higher prices that they were able to raise the average as shown 

 above. 



The kinds of sprays used. Nearly one-fifth of the trees that were 

 sprayed received applications of arsenical poison sprays only. The 

 smaller orchards were quite commonly so treated. This one-fifth of the 

 area included one-third of the number of sprayed orchards. In 21 orchards 

 Paris green and water were used without any other materials. (See table 

 22.) In view of this and of the exceptionally favorable year the showing 

 made by such spraying as was done is satisfactory. 



