32 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The Cheshire Orchard. This orchard is on the farm 

 of S. A. Smith and Sons, on the New Haven and Waterbnry 

 trolley line, near Ives Corners. The orchard was about fifty 

 }ears of age and had received little attention so far as prun- 

 ing, feeding and cultivating were concerned. It was badly 

 infested with San Jose scale and other injurious insects. Two 

 rows of these old trees were severely pruned, and thoroughly 

 sprayed with miscible oil for scale, and later with arsenate 

 of lead and a fungicide for other insects and for diseases. 

 The soil treatment consisted in breaking up the sod with a 

 cutaway harrow and frequent cultivations up till midsummer. 

 The fertilizer used was as follows : 



Raw ground bone 400 pounds 



Basic slag 500 pounds 



Sulfate of potash 300 pounds 



A clover cover crop was sown the latter part of July and 

 has made a good growth. 



The result of the first season's work in this orchard are 

 very fittingly expressed by the senior proprietor in his letter 

 to the Connecticut Farmer and published under date of Jan- 

 uary 28, 1911. A few extracts may be admissible here. 



"The work in our orchard has shown up far more satis- 

 factorily than we had any visionary hope it would." 



"Our old apple trees had gotten so high that we could not 

 spray them, and without spraying them they were valueless. 

 I had cut down two out of nine rows, and if Prof. Jarvis had 

 not put in his appearance just as he did I should have chopped 

 down all of them. We demonstrated on one-cjuarter of what 

 was left of the trees, over 50 years old. My faith has risen 

 so much on the value of this work that we have begun the 

 'dehorning process' on the other three-quarters. When this 

 lot is finished we shall begin on another lot of 10 acres con- 

 taining trees of the same age." 



"All in all, the demonstration work seems to be of 

 marked value to anyone who will acknowledge a good thing 

 when they see it." 



The Pomfret Orchard. This orchard is located on the 

 farm of Mr. Joseph E. Stoddard and situated in one of the 



