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The sections sprayed twice after blossoming had on the aver- 
age 1.06 bushels more fruit per tree and more than five tumes as 
much first-class fruit per tree as did the unsprayed sections. The 
sections sprayed three times after blossoming had on the average 
.28 of a bushel more fruit per tree and nearly three times as 
much first-class fruit per tree as did the unsprayed sections. On 
the whole the results plainly show the superiority of sprayed 
over unsprayed trees, both in the quality and in the amount of 
the vield per tree. | 
When the trees sprayed three times after blossoming are com- 
pared with those sprayed twice after blossoming, the latter are 
evidently superior to the former, having about three-quarters of 
a bushel more fruit per tree, nearly all of which is first class. 
There is nothing in these experiments to encourage the practice 
of treating the trees for scab more than twice after blossoming. 
These results, it will be remembered, were obtained from Seckels 
only. Jam inclined to believe that with varieties that are injured 
so badly by the scab as White Doyenne, a third treatment after 
blossoming will be found profitable, except perhaps in those sea- 
sons when there is reason to anticipate injury from spraying. 
The injurious effects observed in many instances as a result of 
spraying the past season will be considered on subsequent pages. 
The testimony of Table X is in favor of one thorough treat- 
ment after the fruit buds open but before blossoming. Nearly a 
half bushel more first-class fruit per tree was secured this way 
than when two sprayings were given before blossoming. Judg- 
ing from the results obtained in 1893, no injurious effects need be 
anticipated in an ordinary season from spraying even three times 
after the buds start in spring, but before the blossoms open. It 
may well be doubted, however, whether sufficient benefit is 
secured to justify the expense of more than one treatment at 
this period. 
The testimony of Table XI even more strongly favors two 
rather than three treatments after blossoming, as shown above. 
It will be remembered that at the time of the last treatment, 
June 21, an application was given to one tree that had not pre- 
viously been sprayed (see page 655). The result showed practi- 
cally no benefit from this late spraying. At the time the tree 
was sprayed both the foliage and the fruit were thoroughly 
