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BETTER FRUIT 



February 



prevented during a season of severe cod- 

 ling motli attack, no matter how much 

 arsenate of lead is applied." The general 

 complaint throughout the fruit sections 

 the past season was that even though 

 the worms failed to gain an entrance for 

 any distance into the fruit they succeeded 

 in eating enough to leave specks. The 

 specking of fruit is caused almost entirely 

 by worms that have been killed by the 

 poison, but which fed for some little 

 time after taking the fatal dose. For my 

 part I cannot see how specking of fruit 

 can be prevented during a season when 

 codling moth is abundant. The larvae 

 cannot be killed unless they get some of 

 the poison into their systems, and in 

 order to get some of the poison they 

 must feed upon a portion of the apple 

 covered with the poison, or on the poison 

 itself, with none of the apple. It is, of 

 course, possible that some worms are 

 killed by eating poison from the skin of 

 the apple before it is pierced, but as 

 arsenate of lead is a somewhat slow 

 acting poison and does not kill imme- 

 diately upon being taken into the body 

 of the insect, in most cases a worm will 

 feed for some time underneath the skin 

 of the apple after taking the fatal dose, 

 and as a consequence we have an apple 

 that is specked, is not strictly fancy and 

 cannot be packed with our best grade of 

 fruit. Sprays applied late in the season, 

 while they may keep the worms from 

 getting in and totally destroying the 

 fruit, bear a direct relation to the num- 

 ber of worm-specks upon the fruit. This 



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point was nicely illustrated in this sea- 

 son's experiment by two Ben Davis 

 trees, one sprayed only once and the 

 other four times. The tree that was 

 sprayed only once yielded a total num- 

 ber of 2,362 apples, 144 of which were 

 specked and 1,813 wormy. The tree that 

 was sprayed four times yielded a total of 

 1,282 apples, 618 of which were specked 

 and 219 wormy. Examples of this kind 

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 specking of apj. les is unavoidable during 

 certain seasons of severe codling moth 

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 difficulty by the use of a very strong 

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