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tremes are caused by the different selling 
values in different seasons and also by 
the extent to which the fruit may be in¬ 
jured by not spraying. Fruit that is only 
slightly affected by insect ravages might 
sell within I2^c per box of a similar lot 
of fruit that was sprayed, but other crops 
that were more affected by insect ravages 
would sell from 25c to 50c per box less 
than the sprayed fruit in an average sea¬ 
son. In a season of extreme high prices, 
the sprayed fruit would in many instances 
sell as high as 75c per box more than the 
non-sprayed. 
In regard to your question regarding 
the value of a car of sprayed and un¬ 
sprayed fruit, arising from the difference 
in size which spraying has demonstrated 
that sprayed fruit will average larger than 
unsprayed fruit, 'will say that I don’t 
think the value of one car of each would 
be a fair comparison. The comparison 
should be made on whole crops, for, 
while for the last few seasons the smaller 
sizes like 64’s to 8o’s have sold higher 
than the 36’s to 54’s, still when we bear in 
mind that we get more cars of the sprayed 
fruit, one can readily see that a fair com¬ 
parison would be very greatly in favor of 
the sprayed fruit. 
As a suggestion, we would say that we 
do not think it can be too strongly im¬ 
pressed upon the grower that he cannot 
afford to spend his earnings and good 
money in making a grove and bringing 
it up to a high state of efficiency and then 
in any way neglect the making of the best 
quality of fruit possible to put onto the 
market. We feel that when the grove has 
been brought up to a good state of bear¬ 
ing, that it would be very unwise to then 
neglect any part of the future work of 
making a crop of the highest selling value, 
and we believe that judicious and timely 
spraying is very essential in making such 
a crop. 
Trusting these few'observations, ideas 
and suggestions may be of value to you, 
I beg to remain, 
Yery truly yours, 
F. M. Leonard/’ 
Now, if we have made a profit of 8c a 
box just in the spraying alone, then any 
difference Ithat the sprayed fruit may 
bring over the non-sprayed, is velvet. 
Discussion. 
Mr. Mothers: Any discussion of any 
of these questions? 
Mr.-: I would like to ask if the 
spraying* overcame the shark-skin on the 
lemon. 
Mr. Stevens: There are only a very 
few lemon trees, but the spraying in both 
cases benefited the condition of shark 
skinning. 
Mr. Hollingsworth: What variety of 
grapefruit was that? It wasn’t the seed¬ 
less ? 
Mr. Stevens: No, this fruit in some 
respects resembles' the Walters. We 
know that all the trees are of one variety, 
but we do not know just what variety. 
Mr.-: I noticed those two piles 
of fruit you referred to, and it appears 
that those trees were badly infested. How 
did the fruit on the trees in the next row 
compare ? 
Mr. Stevens: They are still on the 
trees. But there is, in our observation, a 
