ORCHARD NOTES. 



W. M. MUNSON. 



The fact that the apple grows in many parts of the State as 

 though it were indigenous and that orchards will exist and bear 

 a partial crop of fruit though seriously neglected, is responsible 

 for much of the ill-treatment so common to the orchards of 

 Maine. There is little doubt, however, that a well managed 

 orchard is a most valuable farm property, and one of the surest 

 sources of income. For many years the Experiment Station 

 has devoted a large amount of attention to the orchard industry, 

 as evidenced by its publications on this important subject. It 

 is the purpose of the present bulletin to report recent observa- 

 tions and experiments upon successful orchard management. 



Notes on Spraying. 



" Watch and spray," as well as " cultivate and feed," must be 

 the motto of the successful orchardist. The importance of 

 watchfulness, and the direct value of spraying, as a means of 

 holding in check insect and fungous enemies of the orchard, 

 have been repeatedly urged by this Experiment Station * and 

 in so far as suggestions made have been followed, the results 

 obtained by the fruit-growers of the State have been satisfactory. 



By the work of this Station it has been shown beyond doubt 

 that, by spraying at the proper time, and in the proper manner, 

 the canker worm, tent caterpillar and forest caterpillar may be 

 held in check; that the "apple worm" or codling moth may be 

 controlled ; that scale insects may be destroyed ; that the green 

 aphis or plant louse may be killed ; that apple scab, cracking of 

 pears, and rotting of plums may be very greatly reduced; — and 

 still spraying is not a common practice among the fruit-growers 

 of Maine ! 



* Repts. Maine Expt. Sta. W91, 1892, 1893, 1894; Buls. 8, 52, 56. 



