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dred dollars an acre, and see how people will grab it. If 

 they think the land is bringing a high price they will all 

 want it. When it is twenty-five and thirty dollars an acre 

 nobody wants it. It may not be worth more than that for 

 the apple business, but after it gets up to a thousand dollars 

 an acre it is going quick. You have got the same conditions 

 here. You take the greatest orchard lands you have got, 

 and you once let the people know that that land is held at 

 a high valuation and they begin to think there is big money 

 in the business. You can sell your land all right. 



A Member : Do you have the apple aphis out with 

 you ? 



Mr. Castner : Yes, but the lime and sulphur is g'ood 

 for the aphis. We use tobacco, too. 



A ]\Iember : I understand that ycu are troubled more 

 with the codling mioth? 



Mr. Castner: Well, I do not know about that. I 

 think, however, we have more fungus troubles in the West 

 than you do here. We have to spray more to keep the 

 worms down, too. 



A Member: How do you have more fungus troubles 

 when you have no rain? 



Mr. Castner : With us the damage from fungus is 

 done in the fall and in the early spring. If we do not spray 

 for it then we might as well leave it alone. 



Questiqin : You control your fungus by spraying the 

 dormant trees? 



Mr. Castner: Yes sir, and by doing it early. We 

 spray for the fungus after the leaves have dropped. That 

 fungus is there and will get into the apple. You see, often- 

 times, apple scab right in the calyx end of the fruit. 



A Member : Didn't you say that you don't have rainy 

 weather from the time the apples set? 



Mr. Castner: It is rainy weather up to about the 

 first of April, but we do occasionally have some rain in 

 May. Here is the proposition. You wonder where the 

 •f unguis exists. The leaves drop. Those leaves are covered 



