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SPRAYING THE APPLE ORCHARD. 



scraped, hogs kept most of the droppings destroyed and 

 the rest were collected and removed. Otherwise, the trees 

 compared were not very dissimilar, neither being sprayed. 

 The diagram shows the records, kept the same as those of 

 the sprayed trees, from five trees in each orchard. In 

 the neglected orchard one half of the fruit dropped, three 

 fourths of the windfalls being wormy, while in the other 

 only slightly over one fourth (27%) dropped, and but half 



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Fig. 23.— The ground covered with the droppings of the whole summer in 



the neglected orchard. 



of it was wormy. Of the picked fruit one sixth was wormy 

 on the neglected orchard, while only one ninth was wormy 

 on the other, but the wormy picked fruit formed 8% of 

 the total crop of the tree in both cases. In the neglected 

 orchard 42% of the total crop of the tree was picked free 

 from worms, making two barrels, worth $2 net, while in 

 the orchard cared for, 65% of the fruit was picked not 

 worm3% making 314 barrels, worth $3.25 net, and showing 

 a benefit of $1.25 per tree at hiil slight cost for scraping 

 the trees and picking up the drops, which pay for them- 

 selves in cider. Altogether the records showed that there 

 were but about one half as many wormy apples during the 



