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jMr. Emery writes: '*I firml}- believe that the spraying was 

 successful and effective, because I never had so few drop apples 

 as there was this season and never had the quality of fruit so 

 good. It is practical because the expense is so small compared 

 with the benefits derived. ' ' 



]\Ir. S. C. Huntington, superintendent of the summer home of 

 Judge R. ^r. Wallace, reports avS follows: 

 "19 Baldwin apple trees sprayed. 

 Picked 70 barrels. 



Dropped 1.8 bushels. Not over 5 per cent, picked fruit 

 wormy. 

 2 trees unsprayed. 



Picked 1.5 barrels. 



Dropped 0.5 barrel; 20 per cent, wormy." 



L. W. French writes: "I consider the spraying on apple trees 

 as successful, very- effective and also practical. The trees 

 sprayed produced an average of 25 per cent, more fruit (this 

 amount dropped from unsprayed trees) than those not sprayed, 

 and about the same percentage more of perfect fruit was grown 

 on the trees sprayed than on those that were not." (That is 

 25 per cent, more of the picked fruit was perfect on sprayed than 

 on unsprayed trees, making a total of 50 per cent, more perfect 

 fruit picked on sprayed trees. E. D. S.) 



The orclinids of A. G. and G. C. Preston were also sprayed. 



R. T. Gould, Contoocook: "In 1908 we picked from my 

 orchard about 150 barrels of apples, which sorted 90 barrels of 

 salable mixed grade fruit, the culls being very wormy. This 

 year, 1909. we picked 380 barrels, 335 being No. 1 grade of fine 

 quality, .'}() barrels of seconds, mostly fair l)ut under-sized, and 

 but 15 barrels of culls. While we have no means of knowing 

 what tbc crop would have been had we not sprayed, I am thor- 

 oughly convinced that it is necessary to spray to produce our 

 best crop of apples." 



Later, November 29, INIr. Gould sent us letters from his Liver- 

 pool, Engliind, agent, stating: "Your Baldwins showed up 



