28 SPRAYING THE APPLE ORCHARD. 



the picked fruit. One dollar per barrel is taken as the net 

 value of picked apples that were not wormy — most of which 

 would be No. 1 fruit. This is probably slightly below its 

 actual value in 1906, for the market price ranged from 

 $1.75 to $2.00, while barrels, picking and packing, would 

 hardly cost more than sixty-five or seventy cents. Inci- 

 dentally it might be noted that this is the average price 

 for winter apples on the Boston market for the past fifteen 

 years. October 15. 



Spraying at Walpole, N. H. — Three Baldwin and six 

 Bhode Island Greening trees were sprayed in the orchard 

 of H. H. Thompson, the record of fruit on five unsprayed 

 trees being kept for comparison. The trees bore and aver- 

 age of about 2,600 apples each for the whole season. Of 

 these one half dropped from the unsprayed trees, while 

 only one fourth, or half as many, dropped from the 

 sprayed trees, about one third of the dropped fruit being 

 wormy in each case. Of the 50% of the total crop which 

 was picked from the unsprayed trees, 19% was wormy, 

 leaving 31% of the total crop of the tree as picked fruit 

 free from worms, which would be about one and one-third 

 barrels (1 1-3) worth $1.33 net. On the sprayed trees but 

 11% was wormy, and as three fourths of the fruit remained 

 on the trees, there was picked 65% of the total crop of the 

 season, free from worms, or about 2 4-5 barrels, worth $2.80 

 net. Thus considering merely the value of the un wormy 

 picked fruit, which is mostly No. 1, there was a gross profit 

 of $1.47 per tree, and as the spraying cost about twelve 

 cents a tree, a net profit of $1.35 per tree. 



Spraying at Hancock, N. H. — Twenty-five Baldwin 

 trees were sprayed in the orchard of C. E. L. Hayward, and 

 a record was kept of five unsprayed trees. The trees bore 

 an average of about 3,600 fruits per tree for the whole 

 season. About one fourth (26%) dropped as windfalls 

 from the unsprayed trees and an almost e<iual amount 

 (24%) from those sprayed. But of the fruit remaining 

 on the trees and picked, 28% was wormy on the unsprayed 



