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spleiulicll\ , and altlumgli our inarla't is very liberally supplied, 

 particularly from Canada and Nova Scotia, we obtained for them 

 absolutely the highest price of the day." And later: "The 

 condition of your fruit was perfect, and not a single barrel was 

 in defective condition." Mr. Gould writes: "The results ob- 

 tained this 3'ear are largely due to spraying, as other apples in 

 the neighborhood were very poor." 



At Chester, N. W. Goldsmith writes: "Where I sprayed the 

 trees I had only 5 per cent, drojiped apples before October 1. 

 Ninety-five per cent, picked from the trees were smooth and 

 nearly all free from worms. "Where the trees were not sprayed 

 33 per cent, dropped, all of which w^ere wormy, and of the 67 per 

 cent, picked from the trees, 33 per cent, were wormy or did not 

 grow smooth. I believe that if we are to raise good fruit, smooth 

 and free from worms, we have got to spray our trees in order to 

 be successful. And I consider that spraying is the only eifective 

 and practical way." 



A. A. Bean writes: "I know that the spraying that was done 

 last spring was successful and effective^ and is what we have got 

 to do in order to have good fruit. The apples on the trees that 

 were sprayed were fair, smooth and nice, but on the trees that 

 were not spraj^ed the fruit was woiiii\'. gnaily. and hardly any 

 fit for market. For example, one russet tree by the side of the 

 road was sprayed on one side, on which the apples were nice and 

 fair, while on the other side they were neai'ly all cider apples. 

 As I have not graded the apples. I cannot give the proportions, 

 but there will be but few twos from the sprayed trees, while on 

 tho.se not sprayed there will be as many twos as ones." 



Orchards of W. E. Jones and A. H. Wilcomb were also 

 sprayed and, although a decided benefit was shown, no definite 

 figures as to the results have been obtained. 



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At Derry, ^Ir. F. IM. Moore, at whose request tlic work in 

 Derry and Chester was undertaken, writes as follows : 



"It gives me pleasure to report to you the results of spraying 

 my orchard here at Derry. As you undoubtedly know, we 



