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largely planted with apple, as well as with peach trees, the 

 apple trees being- all the way from one year to fifteen years 

 old. We took November for this job, what good weather we 

 could get, and the orchard being some distance away from 

 our central place of business, we moved our men and appli- 

 ances to the orchard and stayed there. I might say that 

 some of the apple trees, particularly, and some of the peach 

 trees were very large, they being trees that had borne a 

 great many crops of fruit. I was rather surprised, on exam- 

 ining carefully, to find much scale on these old trees. I was 

 there in that orchard some days ago and looked it over, and 

 was rather inclined to feel that the spraying at this time was 

 not showing on these trees as much as it ought to. I do not 

 know just what the result will be, whether we have been suc- 

 cessful in killing the scale or not. I shall not be able to tell 

 definitely about that without some further examination. 



Now, I would like to emphasize one thing in particular 

 in this spraying work, which I presume we are all of us 

 coming face to face with, and that is the desirability of being 

 very thorough with the work. Throwing the spray from 

 one direction upon the tree I think is not sufficient. It will 

 take two different sprayings to finish up the trees. Try to get 

 a day when there is sufficient wind to drive the sprav in a dif- 

 ferent direction from the first time, going over the trees. I 

 found last fall the desirability of using caps with very fine 

 openings for spraying nozzles, also very much longer lengths 

 of hose than we ever used before, and that gave us plenty of 

 room to get around, and did not bother the men so much by 

 getting the spray in their eyes. 



Now, at the present time we are up against the problem of 

 spraying an apple orchard of large trees. The trees are many 

 of them large. I think there is no large amount of scale in 

 it, but there is some, and I feel that this operation is the most 

 severe one of its kind that has ever confronted us. I have 

 a man that is specially fitting those trees for the job. We 

 are removing the rough bark, that can be broken easily with- 

 out injury to the trees, and thinning out the limbs where 

 necessary so as to get into the interior of the trees easily with 

 the spray. 



