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advisement program. Even allowing for scouting costs of $25.00 

 per acre (NY presently charges $17. 00/acre) , the IPM scouting 

 and advisement program appears to yield a greater net benefit per 

 acre than the alternate middle program. Perhaps the greatest po- 

 tential rests in combining the IPM scouting and grower advisement 

 program with the alternate middle program. We introduced this 

 approach to orchard spraying on a limited basis in some of our 

 IPM blocks in 1979 and 1980, with apparent success. We hope to 

 continue on in this direction in 1981. 



