MORNING SESSION 



Friday. Jaiiiiaiy 12. 1917. 

 Vice President Tuttle in the Chair. 

 Gentlemen and Fruit Growers : Various questions of the 

 fruit growing proposition were before you yesterday and 

 last evening, and this morning spraying will be taken up. 

 I have pleasure in introducing Mr. Davenport, Instructor at 

 Essex County Agricultural School, Danvers. 



SPRAYING FOR 1917 



By S. Lothrop Davenport, Instructor in Fruit Growing, 

 Essex County Independent Agricultural School, Danvers 

 ]Mr. Chairman, ^Ienil)ers of the Fruit Growers' Associa- 

 tion, and others, it is with quite a good deal of pleasure thi.s 

 morning I come up here to speak on the sul).iect of spraying, 

 because I realize that spraying perhaps is one of the most 

 important parts of fruit growing. We have heard a great 

 deal said in the past about tlie various operations of fruit 

 oroAving, and we have heard different men speak on the 

 different i^lubjects, telling how 'hnportant Ijhose vajrious 

 ]»hases were, and possibly we get the idea that one or two of 

 those particular lines of work, like ])runing, are really the 

 most important parts of fruit growing, and we may also make 

 the same statement as to spraying. — that we consider spray- 

 ing to be the most essential or most important part of fruit 

 growing, yet, I think most of us will agree at the present 

 time there isn't any one of those operations which is so im- 

 portant in themselves that they can stand alone, that we 

 ••an expect to be successful in fruit growing by simply car- 

 rying out any one of those particular lines. Yet, if there is 



