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To the Shrewd 

 Business Man 



A commercial orchard is a good income 

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 agent you ever had when you are ready to 

 sell, and a valuable asset to leave to your 

 widow and orphans when you have reached 

 the end of life's journey. 



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(Inc.) 

 ALBANY, OREGON 



EXPERIMENTAL WORK ] 



GEORGE P. WELLAN, at Annual State Horticultu: 



A MEETING of fruit growers for 

 the discussion of problems relat- 

 ing to the conduct of their busi- 

 nes would scarcely be complete without 

 a discussion of the codling moth. While 

 this is one of the oldest pests of our 

 orchards, and one that nearly every 

 entomologist who has ever worked in 

 orchards has experimented upon, it is 

 still one of the most serious. One season 

 the apple grower meets with success in 

 controlling it and prides himself of the 

 fact that he has solved all the problems 

 relating to its control, the next season 

 he sprays in exactly the same manner, 

 as far as it is possible for him to tell, as 

 he did when he met with success, but 

 finds that something is wrong some 

 place, and he has failed in that which he 

 felt so sure would bring the required 

 results. 



Exeprimental work is of little value 

 unless the same experiments are con- 

 ducted for a number of seasons, for there 

 are too many factors which influence the 

 results of an experiment that may be 

 operative in one season and not in 

 another to place much dependence upon 

 the work of a single season. Without 

 advancing any ideas that are entirely 

 new or startling, it is the writer's pur- 

 pose to submit data in this article 

 gathered from the past three years of 

 experimental work on the western slope 

 of Colorado, which will go toward prov- 

 ing three propositions, which are: 1. 

 The one-spray method can only be sue- 



N WESTERN COLORADO 



■al Convention of Colorado, December 12, and 13, 1910 



cessful in controlling codling moth in 

 orchards where there is a natural scarcity 

 of the pest throughout the season. 

 2. The specking of fruit cannot be pre- 

 vented during a season of severe codling 

 moth attack, no matter how much arsen- 

 ate of lead is applied. 3. Thoroughness 

 in applying the spray is a much more 

 important factor than the quantity of 

 arsenate of lead used per given volume 

 of water. 



Taking up the first proposition, by the 

 one-spray method is meant one thorough 

 spraying after the petals have dropped 

 from the blossoms and before the calyx 

 lobes have folded in, thus doing away 

 with the so-called calyx cup, into which 

 the first spray should be driven. Con- 

 siderable has been written in recent 

 years about the one-spray method, and 

 while some have concluded that only 

 one spray is necessary, and have failed 

 to make any allowances for different 

 seasons, or different sections, the more 

 conservative have realized that such a 

 method could not hold good in every 

 locality and in every season. If this is 

 true, how can we lay down any rules in 

 regard to the number of times that an 

 orchard should be sprayed in a season 

 that will hold good at any time and in 

 any place, no matter what the existing 

 conditions may be? From the past three 

 years' experimental work on the western 

 slope, and from observations made in a 

 great many orchards, this fact seems 

 apparent: No rule in regard to the num- 



TN the fight to preserve your fruit trees, be sure that your ammunition 

 ^ is right; when the crop is in danger, isn't the time to do any experi- 

 menting. 



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