r>0 THE CONNECTICUT TOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



not get g-ood results? It is better to spray late in the season, 

 also, as in that way yon will get a good clear color on your 

 fruit and it also keeps your foliage healthy, as well as catching 

 the second brood of codling moth. 



Question : How late do you last spray ? 



Mr. Cox : \Yq begin a1)out Jul}- 20th and do not usuall}- 

 finish until the first of August. 



Question: Is there danger in over-spraying? 



Mr. Cox: There is no danger in over-spraying if you 

 don't have the chemicals too strong in the mixture. 



Question : You would not spray where you were going 

 to cut the hay to feed to stock, would you? 



Mr. Cox : I would not cut it as a feed, but if I did I 

 would not be afraid to do so. There is no danger to stock. 



Question : Does the foliage look blue when you get 

 ready to harvest the crop ? 



Mr. Cox : Yes. sir. And in Southern Ohio the man 

 who sprays will not l^e troubled with bitter rot. One of our 

 trees on a hillside was so situated our hose was not long 

 enough to reach all around it ; we sprayed one side and the 

 other we could not get at. On the side we sprayed thoroughly 

 the foliage was healthy, the fruit fully developed and was free 

 from bitter rot ; the other side was covered with apple scab, 

 had the bitter rot and the foliage and the fruit fell oft. That, 

 you see, is the difl:'erence when you spray and when you do not. 

 And then, too, the side we sprayed was toward the north and 

 the side we didn't spray was toward the south. Nothing but 

 the spraying would save that tree from fungous diseases. \\'e 

 have no trouble at all with the codling moth any more, neither 

 the canker worms nor curculio because we spray so thoroughly 

 and kill them all, practically. 



The people in the United States having old orchards do 

 not spray as a general thing; some do but not thoroughly 

 enough. Some go into an orchard and spray a little, just 

 about a third enough and promise to come back in a week and 

 then forget all about their promise. Those people are not 

 honest with themselves or their fellowmen or the apple trees, 

 as far as that goes, and usually they are not honest in grading 

 or in packing their fruit. 



