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come curled. In the case of an orchard 

 badly affected with apple scab or brown 



spray fluid per acre, with motor 

 using 6 nozzles, 13 men sprayed 8 



pump 

 acres a 



Second Spraying, petals fallen, but calyx still open; the object being to kill 

 the young caterpillars hatching out from eggs laid in the open flowers. 



rot, the best treatment may be to spray 

 with lime-sulphur in winter, and with Bor- 

 deaux mixture in spring. 



CoDLiN Moth CATEUPiLL.'m in an Apple. 

 To prevent damage by this insect spray with a 

 poisonous insecticide directly the petals have 

 fallen. 



To spray well-grown apple trees 20 

 years old, it took about 500 gallons of 



day on Colonel C. Murdoch's farm near 

 Maidstone. 



The apple sawfly maggot has not yet 

 been conquered, and apparently the only 

 check at present is to pick up the young 

 fallen apples from the ground , and to 

 gather from the trees the fruits that show 

 themselves worm-eaten and destroy them 

 all. 



Good cultivation in the way of frequent 

 hoeing, sufficient sunlight and sufficient 

 manuring is a great help towards resisting 

 fungoid and insect attack, by keeping the 

 trees healthy. I have seen a magnificent 

 crop of api")les on land having two or more 

 inches of tilth, obtained by hoeing some 

 six times during the season with the 

 maxim that a good tilth resists drought. 



Gathering. 

 In gathering apples from a ladder, a 

 picking basket with handle is generally 

 used, which can be hooked on to a rung of 

 the ladder. Some gatherers use a sack 

 slung under the left arm, with a slit in the 

 sack where the fruit is put in. Gathering 

 sacks are made with hole at bottom of 

 sack to let fruit slide out, but the fruit is 



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