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American Agriculturist, March 10, 1923 S 
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Spraying by Telephone 
Orleans County Works Together for Quality Fruit 
RLEANS COUNTY By G. E. 
situated in the fam¬ 
ous fruit belt of Western New York, 
boasts of a spray service which saves 
its fruit growers thousands of dollars 
per year. 
The work was begun in 1918 with 
275 men in the service and that number 
has increased to about 1,000 members 
at present. The work is carried on 
through the local Farm Bureau which 
cooperates with the United States 
Weather Bureau, the New York State 
Experiment Station of Geneva, and the 
Departments of Entomology and Path¬ 
ology at the College of Agriculture, at 
Cornell. 
A fruit specialist is employed to 
keep close tab on bud and fruit devel¬ 
opment as well as development of 
insects and diseases throughout the 
county, and it requires his entire time 
in the field during the groyjing season. 
To overcome the difficulties of differ¬ 
ences in bud and fruit development and 
also any differences that might occur 
in various sections with insects and 
SMITH If the time is ripe 
for an application and 
perhaps a storm period forecasted, a 
spray message is sent out immediately, 
In one case as above during 1922, a 
message was sent out on all relays 
early in the morning before the growers 
had begun their day’s work and in less 
than two hours after the message had 
been sent the fruit specialist visited a 
criterion orchard about 18 miles from 
the office and saw 16 spray outfits in 
operation and three more being repair¬ 
ed. The six hundred or more men on 
the telephone relays are reached by 
27 calls from the office and in several 
instances, 90 per cent of the men had 
received the message in less than two 
hours. During the five years that the 
service has been in operation in Orleans 
County, only a few instances have 
arisen where growers have failed to 
forward the messages promptly. 
Field tests are carried out in various 
parts of the county to find out the value 
of the different applications against 
insects and diseases. These tests show 
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Riglit Spraying and the Right Time is Necessary for Right Fruit 
diseases depending upon nearness to 
Lake Ontario, soil, drainage, topogra¬ 
phy, etc., criterion orchards are selected 
as time indicators for certain recom¬ 
mendations. 
The Telephone Speeds Warnings 
In order that so many growers might 
receive the recommendations in a re¬ 
markably short time, that is, if a spray 
is to be applied ahead of a storm 
period for the control of apple scab, 
the telephone is used as a medium of 
swiftness. 
The names of the growers are placed 
on telephone relay lines and the follow¬ 
ing system is used: The fruit special¬ 
ist calls one grower in each section 
where there is a different telephone ex¬ 
change or criterion orchard. The lat¬ 
ter in turn calls two or three others in 
the same locality, and each of these 
men to call two or three more, and 
so on. The men in most cases to call 
those on the same line so that it is not 
necessary for them to call central. 
Who is to call whom is prearranged be¬ 
fore the first message is sent. 
In forming the relay it is very im¬ 
portant to place large dependable grow¬ 
ers as pivot men. In sending out a 
recommendation to so large a number 
of growers, it is necessary to send to 
each grower a code chart, as the short 
mesages are more apt to be forwarded 
cori’ectly. The code chart contains the 
kind of fruit; the number of the spray, 
the spray to apply, materials and 
amount to use, and for what applied. 
For example, Code A, Code No. 1, 
might mean to apply the delayed dor¬ 
mant spray to apples. Very often it 
is necessary to give varieties of fruit 
as early or late blossoming varieties. 
If a storm period is due within the 
next two or three days this is also 
relayed along with the spray recom¬ 
mendation. 
Cards For Follow Up 
Each telephone message is followed 
by a “follow up” card to serve as a 
check for any mistake that might 
occur. In case growers have no tele¬ 
phone they are placed on the maij 
service. The telephone system has a big 
advantage in most cases, as the growers 
have a day to two days of spraying in 
advance over the mail service. 
the great value of timely applications. 
During 1921 and 1922 field tests have 
shown that codling moth injuries have 
been reduced 30 per cent in orchards 
where a special codling moth spray 
had been applied, compared to orchards 
in which the spray was not applied. 
Individual growers have stated that 
they have been saved from $50.00 up to 
$600.00 on just one timely spray. 
In 1920, in five orchards where the 
sprays were timely as compared to five 
orchards where sprays were applied 
“any old time” there was a difference 
of 26 per cent in perfect fruit. In this 
case it meant a loss of over 1,500 
barrels of A grade fruit, which had to 
be thrown in lower grades or culls. 
Results during the five years of the 
spray service have proven that no one 
particular spray can be recommended 
year after year in scab control. Num¬ 
erous cases can .be cited where timely 
applications have saved the growers 
hundreds of dollars. The spray ser¬ 
vice intends to give the best up-to-date 
information at the proper time. The 
growing of high quality fruit has come 
to stay and the requisites for better 
fruit are being raised each year. It 
is up to every fruit grower to keep out 
destructive insects and diseases. This, 
would mean a better neighborly spirit., 
Fruit growing has reached a point 
where it means to spray or get out of 
the game. An unsprayed orchard i® 
a menace to any community. 
Fruit growing is a big game and 
means fight from the word go, but 
when growers can pull through a sea¬ 
son as 1922 has been, with plenty of 
insects and disease to fight, and come 
through with 80 to 90 per cent A grade 
fruit, it shows the fight is not so great 
but what it can be won. 
Fruit growing is somewhat like the 
game of baseball, it may be somewhat 
easy to reach first, second and even 
third base, but after all its the score 
made at the home plate that really 
counts. The spray service is ever 
ready to pitch out the ball of informa¬ 
tion and it always finds hundreds ot 
growers playing their positions steadily 
and earnestly. 
Am very much pleased with the 
Agriculturist. Wish you continued sue- 
cess. — Ralph Hodges, Otsego Co., N. i: j 
