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AMERICAN POMOLOGICAE SOCIETY 
I would like to make a proposition that we plant ho more apples for 
awhile; let us take better care of what we have already planted; produce 
better fruit in the orchards that we have and not plant any more. Now 
of course there are those who have no orchards, and they may want some 
orchards. Well, let us sell them to the growers and stop so much planting. 
There has been too much headlong planting of apple orchards in this country, 
especially during the past five years. These orchards must be cared for, 
and it is going to take a great deal of spraying and cultivation and ferti- 
lizing, and our proposition has raised the question as to whether /or not 
it will pay to do all that. The directions in the government and station 
bulletins say how it should be done. But it will certainly pay to spray well 
and to protect the fruit from the ravages of insects and diseases; other- 
wise, the orchard had better be dug up. Right here before we start I 
might say a word about the directions for the control of insects and dis- 
eases, because I see that there are a number of experiment station people 
here, as well as Department of Agriculture people, and I think we ought 
to give that matter a little more consideration. One trouble, or one thing 
that has confused the fruit grower is the matter of specialization with the 
entomologist and the pathologist. One man will write a bulletin on the 
codling moth and give directions for its treatment; another will write a 
bulletin on scab and give directions for the treatment of that independ- 
ently of the codling moth treatment. One will do the same thing for bitter 
rot. I am guilty, I did it myself, wrote a bulletin on bitter rot and told 
how to control it. The bulletin did not tell anything about anything else. 
It contained formulas and gave directions for the control of bitter rot. Well, 
when a grower would get a bulletin about that, and about scab, and about 
codling moth, he was “up in the air.” This is especially noticeable or ob- 
jectionable if the treatments outlined do not quite correspond; and the 
point is we ought not to be writing separate directions to the fruit grower. 
We want to get the matter together in the form of spraying schedules or 
spraying calendars, where you are not abusing his patience — spraying 
schedules that outline the course of treatment to be pursued for a certain 
crop, all its insect pests and diseases, and that will be illustrated in the 
slides. I think a great many fruit growers and perhaps most of you that 
are in here can take these bulletins and read them and find out just what to 
do for bitter rot and blotch, curculio and scab, etc., and then you can make 
out your own spraying schedule for that, and bring these dates together if 
they do not quite come together — i. e., bring them near enough together to 
make out your schedule. But there are many fruit growers~!hat can not 
do that. The ignorance among fruit growers, especially small fruit growers 
over the country is rather appalling when you go out among them and see 
for yourself. I do not mean the growers that are in the American Borno- 
logical Society and the Society for Horticultural Science and that write to 
the horticultural society and the Department of Agriculture for information. 
Not those, they get the information; but the growers who do not, and as 
a matter of fact that grower who does not seek information is the one who 
is going to be left down and out when these new orchards come into bearing. 
Now we will hastily run over a few slides, calling your attention to siome of 
the more important insects and diseases, and pointing out the remedies; 
