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resulted in finding only 12 showing side injury, and of these but 2 

 were probably entered to any depth. 



An average run of greenings in the orchard of Mr John S. Baker 

 of Muitzeskill gave 8 side wormy, 3 being inhabited, out of a total of 

 89 apples, 1 being end wormy. 



Similar conditions prevailed in and about Poughkeepsie. For 

 example, out of 33 Baldwin apples from the orchard of Mr Peter 

 Cornell of Arlington, only 1 showed side injury, and an estimate 

 in Mr Hart's Titusville orchard, based upon the fruit as it was 

 brought to the packing shed, led us to place the side injury at less 

 than 4 per cent, most of the damage being caused by the second 

 or August brood. Very little codling moth injury was to be seen 

 upon either old or young trees in the orchards of Mr Fred Pulling 

 and Ernest Emans of La Grangeville. 



Injury in well-cared for orchards in and about New Paltz was 

 by no means excessive, and in the case of that of Mr A. E. Jansen 

 the total infestation would hardly run over 3 per cent. The effect- 

 ive spraying in these localities for the control of codling moth is 

 limited almost entirely to the one application just after the blossoms 

 fall, though Mr Jansen states that he commonly makes two spray- 

 ings after blossoming, to spys and Mcintosh, largely because of their 

 susceptibility to fungous attack. 



Somewhat different conditions were observed in a lot of picked 

 apples belonging to Mr L. L. Morrell of Kinderhook. It was found, 

 for example, in going over a barrel to obtain some perfect fruit for 

 exhibition, that 40 apples out of a half barrel, approximately 20 

 per cent, were injured by codling moth. Some showed the character- 

 istic end worm injury though by far the greater portion was due to 

 the usual side worm injury of the Hudson valley, the pests working 

 deep into the fruit and causing conspicuous scars. The trees from 

 which these apples were obtained did not bear large crops and this 

 may, to a certain extent, explain the relatively high percentage of 

 wormy apples. 



It is evident from an examination of these data, that side injury 

 occurs to a more or less extent throughout the State and that the 

 damage resulting therefrom is liable to be much more serious in the 

 western apple-growing sections. It is also apparent from a study 

 of the situation as a whole that fruit growers here and there, even 

 in regions where side injury is very prevalent, are growing apples 

 with a minimum of loss from insect damage. 



We have had an opportunity of watching the actual spraying 

 in different portions of the State and we are unwilling to admit 



