WHY IT PAYS TO SPRAY 
T’S not a question of whether you will or you won’t. Your success with 
fruit requires that you must spray the trees. 
If you want that orchard to be anything more than a poor wood-lot, 
you’ll save it now by spraying. If you want the money that a bouncing 
crop of perfect fruit will bring, you’ll insure such a production by keeping 
your trees in a healthy productive state by spraying. 
In the effort to supply the American taste for the best of everything, 
the choicest varieties of fruits have been brought from all ends of the 
earth and either acclimated or grafted on to our best trees with the result 
that American fruits are the choicest in the world. 
With them we have imported insect pests innumerable, some so strange 
as to be unrecognized until they have increased so amazingly and spread 
so far that the damage done seems irreparable; the San Jose Scale is pos¬ 
sibly the most notable example. 
The first efforts to decrease and destroy them were futile and a few years ago the Ameri¬ 
can orchards appeared to be doomed to extinction. 
But, as fruit-growing is one of the best and the most profitable ways of occupying land, 
the American spirit arose to the situation. Its ingenuity devised methods of combating this 
grave danger and by means of the spray pump and insecticides, the insect extermination has 
commenced. 
Unless your trees are healthy they cannot bear full crops of perfect fruit, and unless you 
* spray them with regularity you cannot hope to keep them sturdy and vigorous. In short, it is 
impossible to raise commercial fruit successfully without regular spraying. 
It is not enough to spray once or to stop when your trees look healthy and the fruit free 
from blemish. Eternal vigilance is the price of success. Each scale left hidden beneath a 
roughness in the bark, each spore of a fungus growth in a fallen leaf only await the Spring¬ 
time sun to reproduce myriad fold, so every fruit-grower today who deserves the name con¬ 
scientiously sprays in the Fall or Spring or both for scale insects, all during the Summer for 
codling moth and similar chewing insects and both Spring and Summer for fungous diseases. 
A few years ago the orchards belonging to C. E. Jones, of Kearneysville. West Virginia, 
were so badly infested with San Jose scale, that according to the orchard inspector himself, 
one-half the trees were tagged to be cut out. After five years’ use of “SCAEECTDE” alone as 
a winter spray, the same orchard produced over $29,000 worth of apples and has been pro¬ 
nounced one of the cleanest in the state. 
The Editor of the “Rural New Yorker” stated editorially some time ago that he had ac¬ 
complished more with “SCALECIDE” in three years than with Lime-Sulphur, etc., in nine 
years. 
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