The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
365 
Business Fruit Culture 
We Must Spray to Insure Good Fruit 
Ever of Interest—A n old subject, yet 
always new, because there are continu¬ 
ally appearing new insects and diseases, 
or old ones suddenly become serious and 
need attention. This in most cases means 
spraying. Many times the make-up of 
the material and time of application are 
in doubt. Then, too, I believe the ques¬ 
tion comes to most of us each year wheth¬ 
er we are absolutely right in what may 
be considered our regular spraying pro¬ 
gram. There is alway more or less pull 
between greatest efficiency and present 
economy. Probably there has not been a 
time since 1S96 when the danger of too 
much economy in spraying was so great 
as the coming season. The inclination to 
go light on all expense connected with 
fruit-growing surely is strong at the pres¬ 
ent time, and the omission of all spraying 
not considered of the utmost importance 
is one way of cutting down expense con¬ 
sidered by many. Unfortunately, instead 
of this being an economy, it may prove 
to be a costly mistake. The fruit grow¬ 
ers of the entire country have learned 
some costly lessons; that no one can deny. 
If. however, the past season (most dis¬ 
astrous to growers) has not taught us 
something of value we are unfortunate. 
Good Apples Short.— The thing which 
has impressed me most is the short sup¬ 
ply of good opities, and this regardless of 
the tremendous .crop, and that almost 
everyone has apples to sell. Surely the 
fact so few good apples and 10 many poor 
ones find their way to our markets, and 
so cause the greatest loss to the fruit 
growers of the country of any single 
factor must be patent to all. And what 
is the answer? Grow belter fruit. One 
of the things necessary to grow better 
fruit, in many cases, is better spraying. 
After seeing thousands of barrels of ap¬ 
ples sent in for packing last Fall, one 
of the most astonishing things to me was 
what some people called good apples! 
Yet most of the defects were due abso¬ 
lutely to spraying, and I could not but 
realize the lack of knowledge of proper 
spraying by men who had grown fruit 
and sprayed trees for years. Besides the 
more common insects and diseases gen¬ 
erally sprayed for more or less regularly, 
we have here in the Hudson Valley four 
comparatively new apple insects which 
look as though they must have regular 
attention for the best orchard results. 
The Apple Maggot. — I believe it is 
not out of place now to put the apple 
maggot first, though I would have hesi¬ 
tated to do so a couple of years ago. So 
serious is the apple maggot or railroad 
worm today that many buyers will not 
make a purchase unless allowed to cut 
some of the apples to .see if they contain 
maggot, while others will not buy the 
second time from a man whose fruit is 
found to be infested. There is liable to 
be a serious infection next season, be¬ 
cause of the great number of apples left 
on the ground in many orchards. Our 
growers are having good success with reg¬ 
ular applications used for codling moth, 
and applied when the flies appear, around 
August. 1. The time will vary consid¬ 
erably with season and variety. 
The Redbug. —This continues to give 
a good race to any insect for serious 
apply injury in the Hudson Valley; that 
is why I hesitated about putting the ap¬ 
ple maggot first. However, most people 
who make any attempt at spraying make 
an application for the control of codling 
moth, and many are adding tobacco ex¬ 
tract and so hitting this fellow. The 
logical method is practically this, though 
success depends largely on the condition 
of redbug at time of application. For 
best results it should be made within 10 
days from time firs) signs appear (i. e., 
red dotting of terminal leaves), and is 
preferably used three-quarter pint tobacco 
extract, 100 gals, of linm-sulphur arse¬ 
nate mixture, as generally applied about 
the time petals are off. 
Red Spider. —There is another insect 
that is becoming very numerous since 
the dormant application of lime-sulphur 
for San ,Tos6 scale has been nearly given 
up—the red spider. I find many, I 
might say most farmers and fruit grow¬ 
ers, do not know it or its work ; in fact, 
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