EVENING SESSION 



President Margeson in the Chair. 



The hour has arrived to eall our P]vening Session to 

 order. Mr. S. R. Parker, County Agent Leader, is going to 

 speak on the 1916 State wide Spraying Campaign. The 

 campaign is over and Mr. Parker is going to tell us some- 

 thing about the results. 



THE 1916 STATE-WIDE SPRAYING CAMPAIGN 

 Mr. Sumner R. Parker, County Agent Leader, Amherst, Mass. 



The ])urpose of the 1916 spray campaign was four fold; 

 P'irst, to improve the apple crop. Second, to prove the 

 \alue of spraying. Third, to introduce better metht)ds of 

 spraying and Fourth, to unite the educational agencies in- 

 terested in pulling together on some common enterprize. 



It was called a state-wide spray campaign but it was 

 state-wide probably only in so far as County Agent AVork 

 was concerned. 



In each county several demonstrations were started in 

 order to secure data necessary for the work in that particu- 

 lar locality. Special lectures were given on this subject, a 

 new^ spray calendar was issued by the Department of 

 I'omology at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, a set 

 of lantern slides was also prepared to illustrate the common 

 diseases and insect pests which it is necessary to combat. A 

 special system of records was devised in order that the cost, 

 the increase in the amount of fruit and the profit per tree 

 could be found in order to report to the grower the amount 

 of profit he might expect to receive from his investment in 

 spraying. 



