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the appearance of the fruit and probably checked its development 

 to some extent, hence care should be exercised not to use too strong 

 or irritating sprays. 



Data from Various Orchards 



A comparison of results obtained in the different orchards is inter- 

 esting though the returns are somewhat anomalous. It will be 

 noted by referring to the preceding tabulations that in the plots 

 sprayed once at Kendall and Albion, the percentage of wormy fruit 

 was 9.68 and 10.53, while those similarly sprayed at Newfane and 

 Hilton gave 14.45 an d 17-55 per cent of wormy fruit. In our judg- 

 ment the smaller yields of the plots sprayed once in the two orchards 

 last named is hardly an adequate explanation for the difference. 



Again, the plots sprayed twice in the Kendall and Albion orchards 

 produced 8.68 and 11.04 P er cen t of wormy fruit, while those 

 similarly treated in the Newfane and Hilton orchards bore 18.39 

 and 16.05 per cent of wormy apples. Plot 2 of the Newfane orchard 

 produced about two-thirds of the crop as compared with the Kendall 

 and Albion orchards and less than one-half the number of apples 

 on plot 2 in the Hilton orchard. Here again we have a higher 

 percentage of wormy apples without an adequate variation in the 

 size of the crop. 



Finally, the Kendall and Albion orchards produced 14.27 and 

 8.41 per cent of wormy fruit on the trees sprayed three times, while 

 the Newfane and Hilton orchards yielded 16 and 12.54 per cent 

 wormy apples, respectively. The crop on plot 3 of the Kendall 

 orchard was only 1450 apples, a marked difference between over 

 6000 of the Albion orchard and nearly 10,000 each of the Newfane 

 and Hilton orchards on corresponding plots. 



The percentage of apples on the check trees in these four orchards 

 is also worthy of comparison in connection with the yield. The 

 Kendall check trees produced 988 apples and 13.05 per cent wormy 

 apples, the Albion check tree, 643 apples and 31.25 per cent of wormy 

 fruit, while the two Newfane check trees produced over 3000 apples, 

 2 1 .03 per cent of which were wormy, and the Hilton check tree over 

 3400 apples with 10.87 per cent wormy. 



This summary of conditions in the various plots shows, broadly 

 speaking, a high percentage of wormy fruit in the Newfane and 

 Hilton orchards which were sprayed by one man working from the 

 tower with a moderately long extension nozzle, and while an honest 

 effort was made to do thorough work we do not believe that so good 

 results can be secured as where one man with a long hose works 



