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it is a wet season, we can take out the buckwheat grain and 

 leave the straw on the ground. If it is a dry season, the 

 growth is not so good, and we usually let the whole thing 

 mat down on the ground. I have been told that this is a lazy 

 method of handling an orchard, but it has given us good re- 

 sults thus far. Personally, I do not think the New England 

 people have ever given anything like a fair chance to Sweet 

 clover. Judging from my experience, and what I have seen 

 of it elsew,here. I think this Sweet clover can be made re- 

 markably useful in our fruit growing, and it ought to be 

 taken up and tested elsewhere. The great problem with us 

 has been how to spray to best advantage for the coddling 

 worm and scab. The liquid sprays for the scale can be put 

 on over a range of several months, but the coddling worm 

 must be fought at just exactly the right time or he will win 

 out. I do not expect to have the labor for careful liquid 

 spraying this year. My water supply is far removed from 

 the orchard, and usually the winds are very high just at the 

 time that the spraying will be done. We intend, therefore, 

 to break away from the old habits, and use dust this year. I 

 have bought a Power Duster, and we intend to use the dry 

 sulphur, lime and arsenate of lead at least three times during 

 the season. I have not believed that this would take the 

 place of the liquid until this past season, when the results of 

 experiments in several orchards in the Hudson Valley have 

 certainly proved convincing. I do not for a moment believe 

 that the dust will have much effect against the scale. 

 Where that insect is present we shall be obliged to use the 

 liquid, but for the worm and the scab I feel sure enough of 

 the dust to give it a fair trial. 



Another thing which I think will pay well this year is 

 the production of good seed corn. There has never been a 

 time in the country when the seed corn situation was worse 

 than it is today. The early frost cleaned up vast quantities 

 of corn which was intended for seed, and careful testing is 

 now showing that much of the corn which farmers are de- 

 pending on is more than half dead, that is less than half 



