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A. After the petals have all fallen, while it sticks out on the 

 stem, before it gets heavy enough to bend it. If I understand it 

 correctly the first brood of coddling moths commence their oper- 

 ations in the blossom end of the apple, and you want to spray 

 while that is exposed so that your spray will take that in. Spray 

 again the third time when the apple is perhaps as large as a small 

 walnut, or a pigeon's egg, something like that, according to the 

 season. Now in this connection there is something I want to say. 

 Last year I was situated so I could not spray my orchard at the 

 proper time. When I picked my apples in the fall they looked as 

 fair and nice as could be, but in the course of five or six weeks 

 after they were put in the cellar there wasn't more than a third 

 of them that were really fit to go into the market they were spot- 

 ted so badly. This year my apples have shown no indication of 

 a spot yet. They were sprayed this summer. Still further, I had 

 an opportunity to buy a few apples in a little orchard near me — 

 the party was not living on the place and he wanted to sell them 

 and I bought them on the tree and put them into my cellar. I 

 am packing now a carload of apples to ship away and I packed 

 those up first and out of sixteen barrels I picked from that 

 orchard I don't believe there are three barrels fit to sell. They 

 were all spotted — my apples in the same cellar are not spotted. 



O. Do you mean the scab or the black spot? 



A. A little spot that looks as if the apple had the small pox, 

 but I imagine it will develop into that fungus later on, but the 

 apple is spoiled for the market. 



Q. May I ask what you use to spray with ? 



A. Formerly I used the Bordeaux mixture as recommended 

 by our Experiment Station. I am using now a prepared form of 

 Bordeaux mixture which is both an insecticide and a fungicide. 

 The insecticide is in the form of arsenate of lead which is supe- 

 rior for fruit trees I think to Paris green, in that it won't burn 

 the foliage and it will stick on. The trees I sprayed last spring 

 there was sufficient poison on the leaves to kill the web moth, fall 

 web worm. When they hatch out in August or the first of Sep- 

 tember, they will hatch out on the tip of the limb and spin their 

 web back on the limb until they get to the old leaves, and they 

 will very soon drop oflf. I have no trouble at all with caterpillars 

 or web worms or any insects of that kind in the trees. I don't 

 think a man would make very big wages hunting for wormy 



