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while other rows were double-sprayed each time. <A double- 
sprayed row outyielded an adjacent single-sprayed row by 66 
bushels per acre, showing the importance of thorough spraying. 
This also tends to show, in the opinion of Mr. Kirkland, that, 
usually, less marked results are to be expected from spraying on 
early varieties than on late varieties, Lightning Express being 
an early, and Churchill Seedling a very late, variety. 
Market price of potatoes at digging time, 50 to 55 cents. 
EXPERIMENT NO. 2. 
Conducted by. F. T. Ransom of “ Beaver Lodge,” Ransomville, 
Niagara County. Twenty acres of potatoes were sprayed four 
times with a one-horse, home-made outfit operated by one man, 
‘spraying four rows at each passage with one nozzle per row. 
About fifteen acres constituted a day’s work. The items of 
expense were as follows: 
Me A LOT INIATI CATO. SLOPSC« cieyes: pia «sjek ow pede o gute oldeld sieve $8 40 
140 pounds copper sulphate at 4c..................4.. 5 60 
© PLLA ELST TE [chs oh tn PE ater aN Ai a a PR A os eh 1 00 
EMIS CDariS Se OPCON ES inc haute > dik hie doopi pe Ven norte 11 20 
Ta Wtetet Sitery, . aa etel. ah Ce Ree a Pat: $26 30 
Sor ver acrertor each Spraying eae L Oley oe ey ae $0 33 
An unsprayed row 600 feet long, 30 inches wide, yielded 414 
bushels or at a rate of 1302 bushels per acre, while a sprayed 
row of the same length vielded 534 bushels or at the rate of 
167 bushels per acre, which makes the gain due to spraying 364 
bushels per acre. The test rows were of the variety Early 
Sunrise. 
The unsprayed rows were treated with paris green for bugs. 
They were affected by blight much earlier and more severely 
than were the sprayed rows. There was scarcely any rot on 
those sprayed; but on the unsprayed rows a little rot in some 
places. 
For about three days after digging was begun potatoes sold 
in Buffalo and Niagara Falls at 85 cents per bushel, but the 
price soon dropped to 50 cents. 
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