SPRAYING CROPS 



below : "One hundred average unsprayed apples 

 filled a half-bushel basket evenly full ; one hundred 

 average sprayed apples filled a bushel basket evenh 

 full Thus the bulk of the crop of ]^Iaiden Blush was 

 practically doubled." 



Spraying has also been found to have a decidedly 

 beneficial eft'ect on the color of the fruit. 



Tiliagc, Fcrtiii:::i)ig, Pni)ii)ig, Sprayi)ig — "Spray- 

 ing has come into use so quickly," writes Professor 

 L. H. Bailey, "that many people have come to look 



upon it as the means of salvation of our orchards. 

 If spraying is to have the eftect of obscuring or 

 depreciating the importance of good ctiltivation and 

 fertilizing then it might better have never come into 

 being. Trees must grow before they can bear, and 

 this growth depends tipon food and proper conditions 

 of soil, more than it does upon the accident of 

 immunity from insects and fungi. There are four 

 fimdamental operations upon which all permanent 

 success in most kinds of orchard culture depend, and 

 I think that their importance lies in the order in which 

 I name them — tillage, fertilizing, prtuimg, spraying. 

 Spraying is the last to be understood, but this fact 

 should not obscure the importance of the other 

 three." 



