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only three hundred barrels it was a very easy thing to take 

 tliose apples and bring them to the barn and pick them over, 

 but when it had multiplied itself by ten and we were going to 

 have three thousand barrels instead of three hundred it was a 

 different thing. We had to go to work then and put up a 

 packing shed large enough to accommodate us. The Director, 

 by permission and consent of the Board of Trustees or Council 

 as it is called, went ahead and built a packing shed 40x80 feet. 

 We made a mistake in not putting it up 100 feet, because it 

 would have been considerably more economical to handle the 

 apples witli the larger sorting space. We shouldn't have had to 

 handle the barrels over so often. We needed that shed very 

 much indeed and in the short time that we had this year to 

 handle the crop it facilitated it very greatly and allowed us to 

 handle it a great deal more economically. 



It may be interesting to all to know what effect our spraying 

 has had in controlling the insects and fungous diseases which 

 have attacked the orchards — ^not simply our orchard there at 

 Highmoor but all over the State. We found that we had got to 

 get rid of the insects which were bothering us. In order to 

 control them we have tried diff'erent methods of spraying, differ- 

 ent spraying materials, different strengths, different methods of 

 applying them. The commercial orchards were practically all 

 sprayed with the lime sulphur of the commercial strength, that 

 tested out 33, or 32 to 33, degrees. The dormant spray was 

 given I to 10, the spray just before the buds were opening, 

 when they showed the pink, i to 20, the summer spray after the 

 lieaves were all open, i to 40. Where we gave those three 

 sprays we practically controlled all of the scab and other fun- 

 gous diseases. In the experimental plots in the No. 2 orchard 

 there were different strengths, and different materials used. For 

 instance, the lime-sulphur alone without any other insecticide 

 put in. Then there was arsenate of lead, just simply the in- 

 secticide and no fungicide, applied, and all of those different 

 applications, which Dr. Morse told us about this morning, in 

 different strengths. I will say right here that with lime-sulphur, 

 the combination of the lime-sulphur with the three pounds of 

 arsenate of lead at the commercial strength, gave us the best 

 result of any. Those apples were free from worms. In all of 



