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Joseph E. Fowle, Amherst, N. H., 150 trees. Sprayed first in 

 1909. "Thej^ ran 70 per cent. No. Is; for the last two or three 

 years we have not had any No. Is. Unsprayed trees had two- 

 thirds seconds and were very small, dropped badly compared 

 v.-ith the sprayed trees." 



W. H. Batchelder, Stratham, N. H., 30 trees. Sprayed first 

 in 1909. ''Had four trees side by side with about equal bloom. 

 Two unsprayed yielded one-half bushel wormy and one peck of 

 good apples. The two sprayed trees gave 21/4 barrels of market 

 fruit and one peck wormy, gnarled and small. This is my first 

 experience, and I am unable to give exact figures as to cost, but 

 figure that one day's work on .'30 trees paid me at least $60.00 

 net profit." 



S. T. Worthen, :\Ianchester, N. H., 800 trees at Mount Vernon. 

 Sprayed first in 1905. Estimates the profit per tree from spray- 

 ing at $10.00. States that he secures 90 per cent, better fruit 

 on the sprayed trees. Mr. Worthen sprays five times, commenc- 

 ing when the blossoms fall and then every ten days until the 

 first of August, and has fruit of remarkably fine quality. 



Roscoe T. Harden, Portsmouth, N. H., 27 trees. Sprayed first 

 in 1907. As to profit per tree, he writes: "In 1907 about $2.00 

 per tree, 1908 about 75 cents per tree, 1909 about $2.20 per tree. 

 I tried spraying one year and got about twice the quantity and 

 75 per cent, better quality on sprayed trees over the unsprayed 

 compared with good bearing years." 



E. S. Walker, Alton, N. H., 40 trees. Sprayed first in 1906. 

 As to the value from spraying, he writes: "With six trees not 

 bearing I have 34 trees, from which we secured $150 to $175 

 worth fruit this year. The total labor, cost of packing, carting 

 and the barrels cost $45 or $50 at the outside. If I had not 

 sprayed I would have gotten about $20 worth of fruit. Last 

 year, 1908, I got only $10 worth of fruit, and the bloom was 

 heavier than this year, as they were all wormy and rotted heav- 

 ily. I presume the 34 trees netted $100, or $3 per tree." 



James C. Piper, Stratham, N. H., 300 trees. Sprayed first 

 in 1892. "Where we have sprayed we find nearly all the fruit 

 remains on the tree and is almost entirely free from worms, and 

 of much better quality." 



Fred C. Gowing. Dublin, N. H., 250 trees. Sprayed first in 

 1894. Estimates his profit from spraying in 1908 at $300 to 

 $400 and in 1909 $100 to $200. "We get quite a lot more fruit 

 and better quality. Buyers will generally give more for my 

 fruit, and I get a better price on the foreign market. Trees 

 should be well pruned and well manured. As sprayed trees will 

 set a heavier crop, a farmer that has apple trees can do no other 

 work so profitable as spraying." 



