the Northern Spy. It is readily distinguished from the scab, 

 which usually occurs in darker, thicker, and more sharply de- 

 fined spots. The following table shows the percentages of 

 scab and moth patch on the sprayed and unsprayed trees : 



Unsprayed. Spraj'ed. 



Scab, 36.1 pel' cent. 3.5 per cent. 



Moth patch, 98.9 " 1.3 



Giving a decrease of 33 per cent of scab and 97 per cent of 

 moth patch on the sprayed trees. 



APPLES 



About forty Baldwin apple trees in the orchards of the col- 

 lege farm were sprayed with Bordeaux mixture. The apples 

 from these trees and from unsprayed ones for comparison were 

 gathered and stored in the barn which was burned Nov. 3, '94. 

 The apples were all destroyed. The apples from five trees only 

 had been sorted. Of these trees, two were sprayed and three 

 unsprayed. The two trees were sprayed four times with 1 to 

 12 Bordeaux mixture, viz., on April 28, May 23, June 13 and 

 30. On May 23 and June 13, six ounces of Paris green per 

 fifty gallons was added to the Bordeaux mixture for the codling 

 moth. The following table shows the result : 



Giving an increase of first quality in favor of sprayed trees 

 of 21 per cent. 



The percentages of scabby and wormy fruit were : 



Unsprayed. Sprayed. 



More or less scabby, .33 per cent. 3 per cent. 

 Wormy, 17 " 6 



In the orchard of Mr. DeMeritt twenty-four Baldwin apple trees 

 were sprayed with 1 to 12 Bordeaux mixture. The first spray- 

 ing was done May 2, just as the leaf buds were beginning to 



