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A. If it is a Baldwin I cut off all but one and afterwards let 

 the leading limb dominate. 



Q. How low do you start your limbs as a rule? 



A. We start them so that when there is any crop we can 

 drive our horses close enough to cultivate well. 



Q. I would like to ask if you think spraying is injurious. 

 The man who raises the best crop of apples that I know of, 

 doesn't spray, he said a man told him that his orchard had been 

 injured by spraying? 



A. You can take every leaf oft your orchard and do it in 

 twenty-four hours after it has been sprayed if you use Paris 

 .green strong enough. You have got to use a good deal of judg- 

 ment. The insect that has been the most trouble to us is the 

 canker worm. 



Q. What is the best poison to use ? 



A. Paris green if you can get it pure. If you spray early 

 enough in the season, when the canker worm isn't very strong, 

 there is no trouble about killing it with Paris green; but if it 

 is left imtil after the blossom has fallen, your canker worm has 

 got so strong that it takes a good deal to kill it, and if there is 

 enough to make it distasteful put on, he would pass round, and 

 only eat the leaves that have got the least amount of poison on 

 it, and by eating a little at a time, he will keep on imtil he ends 

 his natural existence. If you only put your Paris green on early 

 enough in the season you are sure to kill the canker worm. 



Q. What strength then would it require? 



A. Four ounces to forty gallon cask. Later you may use 

 ■one-half pound or even three-fourths pound to accomplish the 

 same purpose, but if you have to do that you are almost sure to 

 bring off the leaves. 



O. Do you always use lime with it? 



A. Yes. 



Q. Do you ever use it without lime? 



A. Xot nowadays, but they used to get desperate and would 

 take every leaf oft' to kill the worms. Since we have used the 

 lime there is not so much injury to the trees, and now you seldom 

 see a tree injured. Spraying is universally used where I live. 



The apple we call the Nonpareil came from England over 130 

 years ago, it is a Russet of the same family as your Roxbury 

 B-Usset, and by manv considered the same article. 



