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with us, and I am sure will be glad to answer any questions. 

 The time is short, so let them come quickly. 



Mr. Fenn: I would like to ask what the trouble is 

 with our spraying? Can the speaker tell us why it is we get 

 so much rusty fruit? 



Mr. Tenny: We are up against two difficulties m 

 spraying. One is, if we spray heavily we rust our fruit. If 

 we dO' not spray heavily then we are pretty apt to have wormy 

 apples. Now last year and the year before we had a tre- 

 mendous amount of rusted fruit. Last spring we were very 

 careful to institute a thorough system of spraying, but spray- 

 ing lightly with mist spray, forcing it into the blossoms as 

 much as possible. Do not spray until the bloom begins to 

 drop. Well, the result was that we had more codling moths 

 than we needed, and yet many of our best orchards were 

 sprayed three or four times. 



Mr. Fenn: What do you use? Do you use the ar- 

 senate alone? 



Mr. Tenny : Yes, that is practically universally used. 



A Member : I would like to ask the speaker if he 

 would recommend us in Connecticut to mix our varieties 

 more? 



Mr. Tenny : Well, of course, I do not know to what 

 extent you have done that. 



A Member: How do you do about that in New York? 



Mr. Tenny: The majority of our growers are mix- 

 ing their varieties. I think very few of our growers plant 

 over two hundred trees of any one variety together. By 

 planting not too many of each variety together, we are getting 

 good pollenization. The\- are doing it, however, not altogether 

 with that special thing in mind. 



Vice-President Drew : Mr. Tenny, you spoke of co- 

 operation. How would you work it out? What would be 

 your plan — would you start it as a state-wide proposition 

 or as a county proposition? 



Mr. Tenny : I would start co-operation at the right 

 end, the end that has alwavs been successful, viz. : with 



