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the fruit free from worms or worm- 

 specks was attained. With an average 

 such as this any further spraying during 

 the season would have been a ruthless 

 waste of time .and money. The fact that 

 so large a percentage of the fruit was 

 good could not be attributed to the 

 spraying had there been no comparison 



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of the sprayed with nnsprayed trees. In 

 this block there were thirteen unsprayed 

 trees, all Ben Davis, the same variety as 

 those sprayed, and the average per- 

 centage of sound fruit, determined by 

 actual count of all apples from a number 

 of trees, was 52, so that there was no 

 doubting the fact that only one spray 

 had resulted in a saving of 43J/^% of the 

 fruit. It is well to note here that the 

 wormy fruit of the check trees, while it 

 was spoiled for the first grade pack, was 

 not excessively wormy, as it would have 

 been in a season of severe codling moth 

 attack, most of the apples having only 

 one worm-hole in them. The experi- 

 mental orchard, along with practically 

 all others in that section, was much more 

 wormy this season, with from two to 

 five sprayings instead of one, due partly 

 no doubt to the light crop of apples, but 

 due principally to the great abundance 

 of worms which seemed to find every- 

 thing favorable to their development. 



This year's experiment was conducted 

 in a locality where there was an average 

 crop of fruit and an abundance of worms. 

 It was found to be absolutely impossible 



to keep down the worms in this orchard 

 with only one spraying, and where last 

 season 9.5J^% of the fruit was saved with 

 one spray, this season 22^'% of the fruit 

 from one Ben Davis tree was free from 

 worms, and much of it was also worm- 

 specked. In this orchard one Ben Davis 

 tree left unsprayed had 17.4% of its fruit 

 worm free. Thus the benefit of the one 

 spray was only 5Vio%, in all probability 

 because of the fact that the percentage 

 of the worms which enter the side of the 

 fruit, usually estimated at about 25, was 

 an exceedingly large number, and there 

 was nothing to keep them from going in. 

 There was no doubt but that the arsenate 

 of lead was good, and the calyx spray 

 effective, for out of 2,362 apples from the 

 tree sprayed once only 17 were wormy 

 in the calyx, while out of a total number 

 of 1,366 apples from the unsprayed trees 

 679 were wormy in the calyx. The best 

 results attained in this orchard were 

 with the use of four sprays, which kept 

 83% of the fruit worm free. Much of it 

 was, however, specked. 



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 tion: "The specking of fruit cannot be 



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