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it does seem to me that the tree has an advantage over the Baldwin 

 though I do not feel fully confident of that. 



Sec. Gilbert. Allow me to add a few words which I thought 

 best to omit from the paper read, in regard to what I have learned 

 from personal observation and conversation here in our own State. 

 Since I have had the matter under inquiry it has been my purpose to 

 learn all I was able to in regard to the character and habits of growth of 

 this tree and the merits of its fruit. I find it scattered around in vari- 

 ous sections among the orchards of our State, grown to a limited extent, 

 and yet the testimony in regard to it is universally the same and 

 such as has been brought out here. The wood is not the Baldwin 

 wood ; it is a finer grained, firmer wood, corresponding very closely 

 with the character of the fruit itself as compared with the true Bald- 

 win, a firmer, solider, heavier wood than the Baldwin. To me, 

 therefore and those whom [ have consulted, it appears to be a rug- 

 ged health}^ tree, inform and general appearance very much like the 

 Baldwin and in bearing properties very similar. So far the apple 

 has no distinction in the market ; they pass as Baldwins, as Mr. 

 Merrill has stated, without question on the part of the purchasers. 

 The distinction of apples borne on the same tree, I have not been able 

 to find to exist generally, onl}" so far as color is concerned and the 

 russetty appearance. There will be a difference in that respect ; some 

 will have a clean, smooth skin while others will be russetty ; and gen- 

 erally the red is deeper than that of the Baldwin. 



Mr. SwEETSER. I would like to hear from Mr. Augur something 

 in repect to the apple maggot. 



Mr. Augur. I will sa}' in reference to the codling moth, as an in- 

 troduction, that within a year or two we have settled upon it as a 

 rule to spray our trees pretty thoroughl3' with either Loudon purple 

 or Paris green, it doesn't matter which. We have been exceedingly 

 troubled with the apple maggot ; so much so that it has broken our 

 confidence in some varieties of apples, so that we have hardly dared 

 to sell them, we have found them so generally affected by the apple 

 maggot. We have found, as it is admitted now by everybody, that 

 a spraying with some arsenical poison is a complete, or very nearly 

 complete, remedy against the codling moth. The matter of sprajing 

 we make a very thorough one, perhaps more so than we need to ; 

 but I think the trees ought to be sprayed two, if not three times, to 

 be perfectly sure of getting 80 or 90 per cent of the apples free from 

 worms. Last year our orchards bloomed^well, and we gave them a 



