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Bulletin 62. 
the spray. It required three men and one horse thirteen 
hours (together with a boy about two hours to turn the 
vines) to complete the work. The cost was estimated at 
$ 6.75 per acre. 
Three hundred crates of good melons were sold from 
the field. Mr. Fenlason thinks the spray saved the crop 
from destruction. A few vines in this field were not 
sprayed and the advance of the disease on these was very 
noticeable. An adjoining field of melons so succumbed to 
the disease as to be of little value. The results of the year 
were of one accord; confirming the benefits from the spray 
as above mentioned. 
EXPERIMENTS OF IQOO. 
The cantaloupe season was very dry and hot, and hence 
extremely favorable to the vine and unfavorable to the 
spread of the disease, so that the results have not been so 
marked as was the case in 1899 , when rain was prevalent. 
May 8 about six-sevenths of an acre of alfalfa sod was 
planted to cantaloupes, it being the intention to spray por¬ 
tions of it at stated intervals for the purpose of testing what 
number of sprayings would be the most efficient. June 11 
the blight seemed to be making its appearance and the 
vines as yet not running. The same appearance was also 
found in other fields. June 13 the most of this patch was 
sprayed with Bordeaux mixture, July 11 sprayed the 
second time, and July 31 a portion of them sprayed for the 
third time. 
The weather continued extremely dry and hot during 
July and August, and in but few places was there any rapid 
spread of the disease. There was no appreciable benefit 
from the third spraying. 
Comparing the sprayed vines with checks and with 
adjoining unsprayed fields, there was an appreciable differ¬ 
ence in the appearance of the vines, in the quality of the 
fruit, and the manner in which it ripened. During the last 
of August, the fruit on the sprayed vines was ripening 
slowly, while the unsprayed vines were giving up their fruit 
rapidly. 
About four acres of melons, belonging to leasers on the 
station, were used for experimental purposes. Two acres 
of this field were sprayed June 14 while the vines were 
quite small, but few of them running. A second spraying 
was given them from July 7 to 12 , at which time they were 
running considerable. 
