New YorK AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. PE 
The items of expense for spraying both fields (814 acres) are 
as follows: 
cose TUOONTET TEESE (yz a i(3)] Ro RL as ie mi a ee A $12 00 
PCCM. oe PRE EL Pe. ae e tee es 1 30 
fo evourS, laborformmian, atloe 14 Grain A. ZR; 11:32 
Pe encurs laporionieam: at liocstarsw. ji-easitasaeit. 5 67 
ree omen aN GArsOTL SPTAYED . fue wie fotig yids WHE « eared’ ys 2 55 
PRR E LURE Ae Rta) sins ANT efok) sfaderera dns ht ng dee ected eek $32 84 
BeratecOst Olesira Ving per ACTO. 7. ... «\afo.skyias ecsaierecs: ssp.» $3 86 
Ose Del Cre 101 CAC. ANDPIICATION «0 2s. sc cae asd be cess 64 
It will be observed that the expense account contains no men- 
tion of poison for bugs. None was needed. There were no bugs 
even on the unsprayed rows. Mr. Gott states that for several 
years past he has had very little trouble from bugs. Usually 
there are so few that no treatment is necessary. Why this should 
be so is not clear. 
About digging time Mr. Gott sold a considerable part of his 
crop for fifty cents per bushel. At this price the increase per 
acre, 21 1-6 bushels, would be worth $10.58. Subtracting $3.86, 
the expense of spraying, there is left a net profit of $6.72 per 
acre. 
THE CLIFTON SPRINGS EXPERIMENT. 
This experiment was made by P. H. Pettit, near Clifton Springs, 
in Ontario County. It included one field of eight acres and 
another of four, making twelve acres in all. Both fields were 
sprayed five times. Three rows in the eight-acre field were left 
unsprayed. They were 898 feet long and three feet apart, 16.16 
rows being required to make an acre. 
The variety was Carman No. 3. The soil in both fields was a 
very sandy loam. The eight-acre field was late planted (June 
13) and the sprayed plants were still growing, when frost came. 
The four-acre field was planted June 4. 
The spraying was done with a four-row power sprayer made 
by E. C. Brown & Co., Rochester, N. Y. (See Plate IX, fig. 2.) 
It carries one nozzle for each row and is intended to be hauled 
by one horse, but the soil being sandy and the field somewhat 
