THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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fruit business is better understood now than ever before 
and the fruit is larger and better quality due to the im¬ 
proved methods. But it is true, although a deplorable 
fact, that many growers, especially among the small or- 
chardists, still have the impression that there is no money 
in fruit growing because of the pests to be combatted. It 
is to the nurserymen’s advantage, as well as his duty, to 
often a life-boat for the farmer. 
Only a few of the experiences, of fruit growers with 
spraying, will be sufficient to prove to the orchardist that 
it will pay him well to spray his trees. In one of the Mis¬ 
souri Experiment Station Bulletins, they report an in¬ 
stance of one grower who had 3700 trees. As an experi¬ 
ment, he sprayed 100 of these trees and when lie picked 
A view of the Office with a Gunner a scabra plant in the front 
The Royal Tottenham, Nuts., Ltd., Dedemsvaart, Holland 
correct this false impression and explain the methods of 
spraying and orchard management and prove that there 
is good profit in growing fruit. 
One type of orcharding, which should be especially en¬ 
couraged, is the one in conjunction with diversified 
farming—let the 5 or 10 acre orchard be just as neces¬ 
sary to the farm as the corn or wheat crop. Very fre¬ 
quently, the farmer will make more net profit from an or¬ 
chard of this kind than irom all the remaining part of his 
farm, especially in drouth years when the Hessian 
Fly, the Army Worm, the Cinch Bug, and other pests 
ruin his farm crops. In such times the orchard is very 
his apples the next fall he reported that he got more first- 
class fruit from the 100 sprayed trees than from all the 
remaining 3600 unsprayed trees. 
The grower who produces first-class fruit will get 
good prices. Even this year, with the export trade cut off 
by the European War. the apple prices are much better 
than was first expected. In Indiana last month I saw In¬ 
diana grown Delicious selling for $3.00 a bushel box. 
Only last week on the New York markets 1 asked the 
price of leading varieties of first-class apples and they of¬ 
fered them to me at $2.75 and $3.00 a bushel box. In 
Virginia the growers say that the apple situation is get- 
