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our packing this year we have only found two codling moths in 

 Highmoor orchard — from three thousand barrels only two cod- 

 ling moths have been found this year. That is a record, I think, 

 we certainly all ought to feel proud of. We had but very little 

 russeting under those methods. On the plot where we used the 

 Bordeaux mixture, the 3-3-50 formula, with the three pounds of 

 arsenate of lead added, there was a good deal of russeting. It 

 may be interesting to you to know that the foliage of the Ben 

 Davis is more susceptible to spray injury than any other apple 

 we have. The fruit is also susceptible of russeting. They show 

 it quite a good deal, and the spray did not control the fungous 

 diseases, the sooty blotch and the apple scab, enough better than 

 the lime-sulphur so that I would feel justified in recommending 

 that to any one else. 



I might say though, that we have done some cross pollenat- 

 ing and hybridizing of the apples. Por instance, we have 

 seedlings which we started, the Tallman Sweet for the male 

 parent and the Spy for the female. We have got about twenty 

 or thirty of the different crosses, the Baldwin and Tallman, 

 the Spy and Tallman, the Mcintosh with the Grevenstein. We 

 have got, of those small seedlings that are anywhere from six 

 to ten or eleven inches high, 1007 which are going to be tested 

 out the next year. Where there are three or more of the same 

 seedlings we are going to fruit one on its own root, the next one 

 we are going to fruit on one that has been worked to a Tallman 

 Sweet and the third one on a French Crab, to see whether the 

 stalk has any influence over the scion, and whether we will gain 

 anything by rebudding and re-working ; whether on its own root 

 it would produce apples sooner than it would if we budded it on 

 to one of the other varieties ; and to see whether by cross-work- 

 ing it a second time on to the Tallman Sweet it would be 

 improved in quality. 



Those are the experiments that we have tried out this year, 

 and we have succeeded in controllng the scab where we have 

 fought it out as we know we should, we have done away with 

 practically all the insect pests except the green aphis, and that 

 is a continual warfare. As the Bible says about the poor, — we 

 always have them with us. The only way you can kill them is 



