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April 10, ly_*o 
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A service that enables you to do the right thing at 
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Dust or Spray? Let’s Settle It 
I have never dusted an orchard, so 
cannot speak from personal experience as 
to the comparative value of the two oper¬ 
ations. However, I do not find any ap¬ 
preciable disagreement on the question 
of codling-moth control. Published data 
indicate that both dusting and spraying 
seem equally successful in preventing se¬ 
rious end-worm injury, but both dusting 
and spraying as carried on in the past 
leave much to be desired in the prevent¬ 
ing of side and surface injury from cod¬ 
ling-moth larvae. 
There is a difference of opinion on tho 
question of scab control on apples. In 
the Hudson Valley, where seal) is not 
ordinarily seriously injurious, dusting 
seems to be effective enough for all prac¬ 
tical purposes. However, in the Hudson 
Valley aphis, redbug and curculio are 
usually fully as serious, or more so, than 
apple scab, and the control of these by 
dusting is as yet a very debatable ques¬ 
tion. whereas there is much better evi¬ 
dence that one or two of these can be 
effectively controlled by proper spraying 
with proper materials. 
Mr. Cornwall’s suggestion that both 
dusting and spraying experiments be car¬ 
ried out iu his orchard, co-operatively, 
by Geneva and Cornell, is a good one, 
but at the same time similar experiments 
should be carried out in different parts of 
the.State under different conditions as to 
relative importance of the various insect 
pests and. plant diseases to be controlled. 
There are also new spray and dust ma¬ 
terials being brought out and advocated 
by various manufacturers, the effective¬ 
ness of which has not as yet been proved 
by disinterested parties to the satisfac¬ 
tion of growers. The Experiment Sta¬ 
tion should be given ample funds for the 
carrying out of adequate comparative 
tests of these materials and the results 
obtained given to the public. Tu spray¬ 
ing or dusting the question of time, next 
to effectiveness, is the important factor, 
and there is no question that dusting can 
be carried on more rapidly than can 
spraying ©Derations. 
The New York Horticultural Society 
at both its Rochester and Poughkeepsie 
meetings passed rcseolutious asking that 
an adequate sum be appropriated by the 
State to the New York State Experiment 
Station at Geneva for the purpose of ade¬ 
quately investigating these matters in 
co-operation with the New York College 
of Agriculture, Cornell University. It 
would seem to me that this is of such 
importance to the horticultural interests 
of the State of New York that every user 
of insecticides and fungicides should favor 
it emphatically, and the amount desired 
should be made immediately available, so 
that effective work can be started the 
coming season. b. d. v. B. 
Remember Them for their Works 
It pleases me to hear that there is a 
proposition started to place a memorial 
marker where the Crawford peach orig¬ 
inated in New Jersey, but it ought uot to 
stop there. The Garden State has given 
the King, Y r ellow Bellflower, Winesap, 
Nero, Maiden Blush, Roman Stem or 
Romanstein, Gloucester Star and other 
excellent apples to American horticulture, 
aud is worthy of all due honor therefor. 
It would be better if we all took enough 
interest iu the fruits we are so fond of to 
know more of their history. Old Wine- 
sap and Bellflower liavef been the fore¬ 
bears or parents of more good types of 
apples than any other two varieties in 
the catalogue. Canada has 'bnilt a me¬ 
morial at the birthplace of the McIntosh, 
Ohio to mark the original Rome Beauty, 
and West Virginia is about to do like¬ 
wise for Grimes Golden. Now let the 
good work proceed. More than that, why 
shouldn’t we know more of the lives, ex¬ 
periments and achievements of the ven¬ 
erable horticulturists of the last century, 
like Chas. Downirg, Marshall P. Wilder, 
Jacob Moore, and Rogers, the Salem 
grape specialist, T. V. Munson of Texas, 
and others? I wish horticultural and ag¬ 
ricultural journals could give the men and 
women who are working iu these fields 
today the inspiration and benefit that in¬ 
teresting and truthful sketches of the old 
pioneer worthies might give us. Let us 
strive to emulate their spirit aud per¬ 
petuate their zeal, aud gratefully remem¬ 
ber the services that the thankful ap¬ 
preciative public should uot permit to pass 
into obscurity* c. s. mann. 
Pennsylvania. 
R. N.-Y.—Excellent suggestions. New 
Jersey will remember these fine old vet¬ 
erans. We may all do our part to keep 
their memory green. 
Plowing Diamond Shape 
I was told by a friend who traveled 
through Michigan last Summer that the 
farmers there plow their fields diamond- 
shaped. Can you tell me if this is so, and 
if it is, what is their reason for doing it? 
New Jersey. F. H.c. 
It is uot so. There may be a few 
farmers who, for some special reasons, 
plow iu that way or form, but it is not at 
all general. Michigan farmers plow and 
care for the land about as other good 
farmers do. They are certainly not plow¬ 
ing diamonds out of the soil. 
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