NINETEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 31 



world. By scraping" off these coccoons in the winter it 

 will reduce the injury very much. You can see from the 

 picture what a difference there was in the productiveness 

 of the orchard. We picked about four barrels from this 

 tree and two barrels from the other, making a difference 

 of quite an amount in the two trees. When you come to 

 multiply that by the number of trees in an orchard you 

 can see it is quite a material sum. This was simply to 

 give you a comparison between two orchards where all 

 conditions were cared for, and in an orchard which had not 

 been cared for. 



Another thing, we never can spray very advantageous- 

 ly these old high trees. These old trees ought to come 

 down. They are nice things in the landscape, but they 

 are practically of no use. It is the same way with the 

 old pasture trees which are so far off that they produce 

 simply poor fruit. We cannot afford to let those trees 

 stand. They should come down. They will make good 

 firewood. 



Probably many of you say that a tree ought to be 

 thinned or trimmed out. Well, our people have not got to 

 the thinning stage, but we can show the result of spray- 

 ing, as we do in this orchard, which, it seems to me, is 

 a pretty good illustration of successful spraying. 



These trees show the results obtained from experi- 

 ments to find what the average benefit was from spraying. 

 Even if we obtained as low an average benefit as $1.15 per 

 tree, it is certainly one of the most profitable operations 

 we can undertake. 



I have omitted to mention the second spray, which 

 should be taken up here. Frequently, it used to be rec- 

 ommended to spray the second time for the codling moth 

 about ten days to two weeks after the buds appear. There 

 seems to be no particular reason for putting it three or 

 four weeks after the blossoms drop, which would bring it 

 about the last week in June. At that time the eggs are 



