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that if you can't protect the lYealthy apple you can so-and-so well get rid of the 

 tree. 



Then along came the good Doc VvTieeler, prescribing "smelly stuff" (F'r:) ar.d 

 "my \vord don't spill that"' (7EPP) and some others, and George Greaney of " .'iagara 

 came up v.'ith the g^ods to compare with the standard lead. Some general conclusions 

 were reached. Don learned that TEPP is a real "kill 'em deader" on contact, but vre 

 Wanted to know more about the protection angle of the cover spray. 



So this year we rigged up a similar deal with amiable Aubrey Amidon, Jr., of 

 South Halifax, Vermont. Taking only slight geographical liberties, Aubrey's 

 orchard is astride the L'assachusetts-Vermont line, and everyone knows that the 

 apples that qualified him for Red Apple Club in '[t6 and 'U9 came from spurs under 

 the Massachusetts environment. However, on the Vermont side, apple "cutcS" were 

 lurking in the brushy walls and corners. Plenty of varieties in the Amidon 

 orchard and the beetles liked them all, especially a scattering of Winter Bananas 

 near the graveyard (no connecticn) , 



To bolster Doc Wheeler's morale, he v;as sulking because he couldn't find any 

 red-banded up there, we let him in on it, and of course, reliable George Greaney, 

 The come-on was DDT and lead; DHC and lead; Ghlordane and lead; and (gxap!) 

 Parathion. TEPP v.-as also on hand for a "fireman treatment" if needed. Check 

 trees v:ere left unsprayed in each rcvr in the block of thirty-year-old V/ealthies, 

 Combinations were put on in calyx, 1st and 2nd cover, except Parathion v/hich was 

 applied separately at about the same time. Table 1 below sums up the results. 

 There remains but one variable to be explored; is there any correlation between 

 lead applications for Odocileus virginianus virginianus(look it up) and build up 

 of apple curculio in the Amidon orchard? 



Table Shcv-dng Apple Curculio Control on Wealthy 



Note 1: One half the normal concentrations of Kolofog and lime sulfur were 



included in each application of insecticides. 

 Note 2: Injury probably caused by lime sulfur - chloixiane combination and 



not by chlordane alone. 



