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more about insects that affect our fruit trees. I was in- 

 terested in the remarks made by our President especially 

 his remarks upon continuous spraying. Some make but a 

 half hearted trial or worse still, send the hired man out with 

 an antiquated apparatus to do the work. 



''When I talk about spraying I mean thorough work 

 not only this year but the next year and the year after be- 

 cause I believe that is the only way to control the insects 

 and other fuugoiLs diseases. Spraying is really another kind 

 of insurance and just as you keep up your policy, in the 

 same way keep on spraying and the man who does is the 

 one who gets good fruit, gets high prices and makes a suc- 

 cess of fruit growing. 



The control of insect pests and fungous diseases affect- 

 ing our various fruit trees, is a problem of great importance 

 and no argument is necessary to demonstrate the economic 

 advantages resulting therefrom. We all know what it is to 

 happen upon a wormy apple, and there is always a widf- di- 

 vergence between the price paid for barrels of soun.i fruit 

 and that which can be obtained for a second quality prod- 

 uct. More than this, our markets are beginning to recog- 

 nize the beneficial results following spraying and as a con- 

 sequence some buyers are obliged, on account of market de- 

 mands, to make a difference of 25c per barrel between fruit 

 from sprayed and that from untreated orchards, even though 

 both be carefully graded and apparently of the same qual- 

 ity. This difference in price will more than cover the cost 

 of the necessary spraying from year to year, not to mention 

 the additional amount of marketable fruit resulting from 

 the adoption of this practice. 



There are a number of insects which demand attention 

 on the part of the orchardist in early spring. The apple 

 borers are common and occasionally very destructive pests. 

 This is particularly true of the round-headed apple borer, 

 which is sometimes very injurious to young orchards, and 

 older trees are by no means exempt from its operations. Our 

 attention was called recently to a young apple orchard 

 owned by an Irishman. He stated that, in his opinion, the 

 soil was not adapted to fruit trees. An examination resulted 

 in finding 11 borers at the base of a young tree with a trimk 

 diameter of less than 1 1-2 in. 



The situation was obviously "unhealthy," though the 

 trouble was due to insect depredations rather than soil de- 

 ficiency. There is no better method of controlling this apple 



