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after the blossoms fall, and that is bordeaux with a half- 

 pound of Paris green added. Right here I may say that most 

 of us use white arsenic, because it is a great deal cheaper, year 

 after year. White arsenic has cost four cents a pound, and 

 Paris green thirteen, and this year I don't know where Paris 

 green is going to ; the manufacturers will not make a price at 

 present. We dissolve that arsenic of course in order to render 

 it soluble ; we dissolve it first in washing soda, and when it 

 comes into the bordeaux it becomes a soluble compound, unit- 

 ing with the lime. We use that white arsenic in preference to 

 to Paris green, most because it is cheaper. Remember, I am 

 speaking of Delaware, and not of Connecticut. I don't know 

 your conditions here in Connecticut, but with us the coddling 

 moths are there practically all the season, and the}- do damage 

 through the season, and we found that out in Oregon they 

 practically sprayed the season through. When they showed 

 lis some of the nice fruit, we could see where they rubbed the 

 Paris green and the bordeaux off ; we could see it in the stem 

 €nd of the fruit, and they had beautiful fruit to show us, and 

 I may say that the best fruit grown in Delaware this year 

 was practicallv so sprayed. Now, if you have scab badly in 

 your orchard, and if you are growing Jonathan, you will 

 iind that the Jonathan has scab very bad, and you want 

 about five sprayings. If you have bitter rot in your orchard, 

 you may find that you want six sprayings, or seven and eight 

 spra}ings. We find we have got to spray if we want the pear 

 free from blight and free from rust, and keep the tree growing 

 nicely. A good many of our growers in Delaware haven't 

 iDcen spraying their pear orchards, and in consequence in July 

 and August the leaves fall ofif, and the next year the crop 

 is practically ruined, for the reason that there is no foliage 

 on the tree to provide buds for the succeeding crop. We can- 

 not grow good Bartlett pears ; we cannot grow any fruit, or 

 plums or peaches, or pears, or apples without spraying. But 

 we cannot spray them all alike, nor can we spray them all with 

 the same strength of the bordeaux. On our peaches we found 

 we could not use over two pounds of bluestone to fifty gallons 

 of water without injuring the leaves, so most of us 

 liave dropped th.at part of it. but we try to get two sprayings 



