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agitator I have never had to burn the foliag^e. It v/ill take 

 as much as this to kill tent caterpillars and other insects 

 quick, which is an item when a rain follows- shortly after 

 the spraying-. I believe Green Arsonoid, sold by the Adler 

 Color & Chemical Co. of New York, is just as valuable as 

 Paris Green and certainly much cheaper. It could be 

 bought last season for fourteen cents per pound. For those 

 who are doing miich work, white arsenic will be found 

 cheaper still. This needs to be boiled with sal-soda, and 

 while not a difficult job, a beginner had better use the 

 Green, as the simpler he can make the operation the better- 

 I find a good deal of the first spraying can be done best 

 from the center of the tree. This I learned from spraying- 

 large elms for the elm leaf beetle, when we put a pair of 

 telegraph lineman's spurs on a man and sent him into a 

 fifty or sixty-foot tree with forty feet of hose and an eight- 

 foot rod. Ordinarily, a good powerful hand pump with a 

 good agitator will do the most practical and thorough 

 work. Half way spraying leaves plenty of uncovered foli- 

 age and fruit for insects and fungi to feed on ; where the 

 work is thoroughly done there is no choice but to eat and 

 die. From eighty-five to ninety per cent of fruit may be 

 made absolutly oerfect if the work is properly done. 



To show the advantage brought about by the Bordeaux 

 in giving vigorous foliage, I will cite you an instance that 

 happened a few years ago. My men ran out of Bordeaux, 

 in spraying the Greening trees, and as they were only 

 short a half barrel I told them to finish with Green and 

 water. The next spraying I helped to do myself, and 

 came first to the side of the Greenings that the men had 

 sprayed last. I at once noticed that the foliage was yellow 

 and sickly looking, and as I had forgotten about the lack 

 of Bordeaux, I was planning to give them some increased 

 fertility, but on coming back on the other side, found that 

 side as healthy as any foliage in the orchard, then I recol- 

 lected that those were the trees one side of which had no 

 Bordeaux. This showed the value of Bordeaux where it is 

 applied and only there. 



Now an illustration for the scab on fruit: I have a 

 block of Newtown Pippin trees standing below a hill on 



