THE STRAWBERRY MARCH 1907 



urer, C. H. Darrow, Geneva; executive 

 committee — B. J. Chase, Sodus; S. W. 

 Wadhams, Clarkson; L. L. Moirell, Kin- 

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Spraying at "Pioneer Gardens" 



By Irving C. Smith 



WE began using a spray pump in 

 spring of 1904. We made more 

 or less mistakes the first year; but 

 where work was well done success fol- 

 lowed in its wake. 



Our work with Bordeaux has been 

 chiefly confined to potatoes, celery, toma- 

 toes, currants, gooseberries, and we think 

 most of it will come under the head of 

 "Striking results." 



Before we used the spray our Early 

 Ohio potatoes would blight and die before 

 the proper time. With the spray they 

 ripen naturally. The celery blighted so 

 badly as to be almost worthless, but with 

 the spray it grows to the end of the season. 



A neighbor was looking at our beds this 

 past season — we had 275,000 plants — and 

 remarked, "The spray does the work all 

 right; mine are blighted so they are not 

 worth anything!" Ours were doing very 

 well. 



Three years ago the leaves blighted and 

 fell off of the currant bushes soon after 

 fruit was picked. Two years ago we 

 sprayed and the leaves were still green 

 when the hard killing frosts came in the 

 fall, while the bushes of our neighbor 

 (without spraying) were stripped bare be- 

 fore September 1. 



In 1905 we neglected our gooseberries 

 (we have only sixty bushes) and the ber- 

 ries were about as fuzzy as a bumble bee, 

 and about as salable. This season past 

 (1906) we sprayed properly and got a fine 

 crop which brought $1.26 '2 per case. 



Three years ago (1903) our early toma- 

 to crop was nearly a failure. In 1904 we 

 sprayed and from a little over an acre of 

 early tomatoes we sold over $300 worth 

 before the main crop was in market, and 

 had about the only patch of early tomatoes 

 in the neighborhood that was not killed 

 by blight. 



The wax beans have been struck by fire 

 blight two or three times and we rushed 

 to the rescue and checked the work of the 

 blight as one might check flames in the 

 dry grass. 



We use an Eclipse hand pump and 

 Vermorel nozzles. 



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 you would be sure to bring out some of 

 your old chestnuts. May I have some.' 

 Do, please!" — Punch. 



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