SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING . loi 



marked decrease in the amount of yellows and little peach 

 in our orchards. Within three miles of this orchard, on 

 either side of the river, there are farms of 100 acres each, 

 portions of which are well adapted to fruit growing, where 

 the sales from the entire farm would not amount to the 

 returns from an individual acre of this orchard. The 

 owners are living principally upon scenery. 



About eight years ago the San Jose scale appeared 

 in our orchards, coming from an infestation in Canada 

 four miles away. We think it was carried by crows which 

 migrated back and forth and made their nests in our large 

 apple orchards. At first we received very little practical 

 assistance from our Experiment Stations. I often think 

 of the crude way we started in to prepare the lime and 

 sulphur in iron kettles and applying it with antiquated 

 hand-pumps. We had about concluded if we had to fight 

 it on our four hundred acres of orchard, that we would 

 surrender. If Will Carleton could have been with us at 

 that time, we can imagine him saying, "Storm and Tem- 

 pest, blight and fungus, o'er our orchards may befall, but for 

 first-class ruination, put the scale against them all." 



The fall that we first found scale in our orchards we 

 marked all infested trees when we were picking the fruit and 

 treated them the following spring as best we could with 

 Kerosene Emulsion and whale oil soap. As we had no con- 

 veniences for treating the whole orchard, we did the same 

 thing the next year. We seemingly checked it some, but of 

 course were not doing thorough enough work to hold it 

 entirely in check, and the third year of this treatment we 

 could see that we must do more spraying if we were going 

 to save our orchards. 



Our Greenings were much the worse infested, while 

 among our Baldwins it seemed to be in spots here and there 

 throughout them. The next application we sprayed most of 

 our Greenings and the parts of our Baldwins where it was 

 making most rapid progress. We kept increasing our oper- 

 ations until two years ago, with most discouraging results. 

 At that time our Greening orchard was so l)ad that we took 



