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about 4 cents or less per barrel of fruit. Thus o foliage 

 spra^^s would cost less than 12 cents per barrel and four 16 

 cents. Can we not afford to spend more than from 12 to 

 16 cents per barrel of fruit for spraying? I believe that we 

 can. in fact I am convinced that we can spend at least 20 

 cents per barrel of fruit for spraying if necessary and come 

 out far better in the end. 



Look at the apples the past season that were covered 

 with Sooty fungous and Brook's spot, worth about $1.00 

 per barrel. Would it have been worth while to spend 10 to 

 15 cents more for spraying and made them worth $2.00 per 

 barrel? If we must economize let us start somewhere else 

 than on the number of sprayings. I^et us keep some ac- 

 counts and see what our spraying is costing us, and whether 

 it is the sprajMng that is increasing the value of our apples 

 or not. 



Next let us consider for a few moments the spray ma- 

 terials. At the present time we find that there are many 

 spray materials on the market and wc find that the tendency 

 is today, to change the liquid and j^aste materials into a 

 powdered form. Thus Ave have a liquid lime sulfur and a 

 powdered soluble sulfur, a paste arsenate of lead and a 

 powdered, and the question is Avhich to buy. 



In general I would say that this is a question to be 

 settled by the buyer, for most of the materials are good. 

 Of course, it costs to make a powder from a paste and the 

 bviyer must pay for it and unless the powder has some ad- 

 vantage for you. it is not economy t') l)uy it. We must, 

 however, buy those materials that can be mixed together 

 making a combined spray rather than those that must be 

 used sepai-ately. That is why T am recommending lime 

 sulfur, arsenate of lead and "Black Leaf 40" in the Spray 

 Calendar, because they may be mixed giving us a mixture 

 •which is not injurious and at the same time T believe a most 

 economical combination. 



One other point we must also keep in mind is that 

 freight is moving very slowly and we must order our spray 



