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off, leaving the rusty-colored spot, the scab has left the apple (Bulletin 

 226, page 337). A still larger number see the scab but underestimate 

 its importance, thinking that the scabby apples keep as well as others and 

 are therefore as good. Such apples do not often keep as well as others, 

 but the serious error in this reasoning is that it leaves out of account 

 the value of beauty in selling fruit. Even if the scabby apple should 



TABLE n. 

 Relation of spraying to the apple-scab fungus in 1904. 



TABLE n (Concluded}. 



happen to keep as well and should taste as well, it would still be a cheap- 

 selling product. To be No. i, apples must be attractive to the eye. Many 

 growers have honestly considered that their fruit was practically free 

 from scab, when not more than five or ten apples in a hundred were 

 free from it. In order that the question of opinion might not enter into 

 the work, the percentage of scab was determined by counting. Table II 

 shows the results. 



