REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST I915 43 



July, 27 ; side wormy, August, 28 ; green fruit worm, 13 ; total number 

 of apples examined, 418. This orchard, it was stated, had been 

 sprayed three times, arsenate of lead being used twice. 



The orchard of Mr G. H. Rudman of Irondequoit, was examined 

 and several heavily loaded Baldwin trees appeared' to have an 

 infestation which would compare favorably with conditions obtain- 

 ing in the Webster orchard, though no precise counts were m.ade. 



An examination of a greening orchard at Charlotte showed a serious 

 infection by scab and side injury which would probably approxi- 

 mate 20 per cent or over, a lot of 28 apples showing 1 injured by the 

 leaf roller, 26 infected by scab, 1 end wormy and 13 side wormy. 



One hundred king apples, " tree-run," from the orchard of Mr C. F. 

 Kraus of Clarence, Erie county, were classified by Mr Strickland 

 as follows: end wormy, o; side wormy, July, 42; side wormy, 

 August, 2; perfect, 56. This orchard had been sprayed once after 

 the falling of the blossoms. 



Again, 674 Baldwins from the orchard of Mr G. H. Wilder of 

 Akron, Erie county, were classified by Mr Strickland as follows: 

 perfect, 207; end wormy, 13; side wormy, July, 440; side wormy, 

 August, 69; total wormy fruit, 468. It was stated that the trees 

 in this orchard had been sprayed in the pink of the blow, again 

 following the drop of the blossoms and two weeks after the blossoms 

 fell, with lime-sulphur and arsenate of lead. 



It will be seen by referring to this data from the different orchards, 

 that side injury was not only prevalent but also rather serious in 

 many orchards within 25 miles of the Great Lakes. 



In this connection it may be desirable to add that in Mr Strickland's 

 estimation one-fourth of the crop in many orchards in 1914 was 

 marred by this characteristic side blemish. 



The conditions in the western part of the State varied markedly 

 from those obtaining in the Hudson valley. In the first place eggs 

 were decidedly more common upon the fruit during July in Niagara 

 county, it being comparatively easy to find one, two, three or even 

 four upon individual apples while there were almost none upon the 

 leaves, whereas at about the same time in Rensselaer county, recently 

 deposited eggs and egg shells were more abundant on the foliage 

 than upon the apples, there being two of the former to one of the 

 latter. This latter was upon Siberian crabapples and the marked 

 difference may possibly be explainable in part by the smaller size 

 of the fruit. 



The discrepancy in side injury is evident from the following data: 



An examination of 97 Baldwins in the orchard of Mr Edward 

 Van Alstyne of Kinderhook, just as the apples came from the tree, 



