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April 10, 
A TOWN WITH WET FEET. 
Those of ns who live among the hills 
read about the recent flood, but could 
form no practical idea of what it meant 
to be washed away from home. Some 
of our readers, however, who live along 
the banks of rivers, or on bottom lands, 
certainly had a chance to test the real 
thing, and reports are coming from 
many, of them of hardship and loss. 
There can be no question about the 
awful disaster which comes to a bottom 
farm when the river jumps out of its 
course and spreads over the land. 
Others of our readers live in towns 
along the rivers, and there, too, there 
was trouble. In the cut we show a 
picture taken in Watervliet, New York, 
when the flood reached its high point. 
The water jumped out of the river and 
spread through the town as we see, 
trated lime-sulphur but leaving it extra 
strong (I did not measure the propor¬ 
tions nor test it) for I was determined 
to practice a “kill or cure” method 
lest it spread to other trees. The trees 
showed no signs either from scale ef¬ 
fects or excessive strength of spray ma¬ 
terial, except a slight cracking of bark. 
The trees are still clean and healthy. 
Two Winter Rambo Apple Trees.— 
Pruned and sprayed once with lime- 
sulphur early in Spring and later in 
proper season with Bordeaux-arsenate. 
Fruit very scabby and decayed quickly. 
Fruit of other varieties in same orchard 
in good condition. Spraying a failure. 
Two Baldwin Apple Tr.EEs.—No. 1 
standing alone in field, and as is com¬ 
mon with such trees, its fruit was 
always hadly infested with Cod ng 
moth. The tree was also very bushy, 
THE FLOOD AT WATERVLIET, N. Y. 
flooding the stores and driving traffic 
away from the streets. This was a mild 
water treatment as compared with what 
happened at Dayton, Ohio, and in other 
large western towns, but this was bad 
enough to satisfy most people. We shall 
have some reports later from western 
farms showing just what did happen, 
and an actual statement of damage. 
Those who live on the lower ground 
enjoy many advantages of good soil 
and easy tillage, and in time of drought 
they may smile at us burning on the 
dry old hills, but when such pictures 
as we print become realities there is 
another side to the story, and the hills 
become a place of refuge. 
SOME SPRAYING NOTES. 
Much has been learned about spraying 
in the last few years, and no doubt 
we have much more to learn. We may 
be too ready to jump at conclusions, 
depending upon one or two experiments 
to establish a fact. We need to experi¬ 
ment again and again, always learning 
by each succeeding trial. The Experi¬ 
ment Stations are generally very thor¬ 
ough in their work but even this should 
be tried out by practical farmers. But 
with all our study, experimenting and 
practice, can we say that spraying as 
we now understand it is a success? 
Yes, thousands could testify in the 
affirmative, and where failure has re¬ 
sulted it is usually because of failure 
to carry out the present knowledge on 
the subject. Notwithstanding there are 
still some “incurable” diseases and some 
insects which stubbornly refuse to yield 
to modern horticultural methods. There 
is much room for improvement both in 
knowledge and practice, but results 
justify our belief in spraying. 
Two Neighboring Orchards. —Both 
apple orchards, the one slightly and the 
other badly infested with San Jose scale 
seven or eight years ago. Present con¬ 
dition first orchard, partly dead; second, 
growing out nicely and bearing fruit 
on new wood that has grown since the 
big scale-killed limbs were cut back. 
Methods employed, first orchard sprayed 
with lime-sulphur, using barrel sprayer, 
but evidently not thoroughly nor often 
enough. Second was sprayed thoroughly 
each year with lime-sulphur, an en¬ 
thusiastic farmer using first barrel 
sprayer and later hiring gasoline power 
outfit. 
Three Peach Trees. —After spray¬ 
ing my peach orchard about three years 
ago I noticed traces of scale on three 
trees, one limb being badly infested. 
I hastily diluted some more concen- 
but was severely pruned and sprayed 
like Rambo trees. Results, apples 
clean or nearly so. Tree No. 2 stand¬ 
ing in orchard, sprayed with arsenate 
of lead, but a little too late; calyxes 
nearly closed. In Autumn fruit nearly 
all on the ground before picking time. 
An examination disclosed the presence 
of a Codling moth larva in practically 
every fallen apple. 
Early Harvest Apple Tree. —Large 
tree and pruning neglected for years 
till two years ago. It is well known 
how thickly these trees grow. Thor¬ 
oughly pruned and sprayed with lime- 
sulphur and Bordeaux-arsenate. Fruit 
had been of poor quality and \ y lit¬ 
tle of it salable. Next crop larger and 
fine. Apples medium sized and sound. 
Fruit sold for the high dollar. Tree 
paid for its extra care many times over, 
the first season. 
Triumph Peach Trees. —Fruit al¬ 
ways rotted badly no matter how favor¬ 
able the season. Sprayed once with 
self-boiled lime-sulphur. Season wet 
but most of the fruit was sound. The 
first time I ever realized a decent crop 
off this tree. david plank. 
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