228 REPORT OF THE HorTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT OF THE 
“Nearly all trees sprayed with bordeaux in 1905 were injured so that 
they dropped many leaves. Much of the fruit was russeted and one-sided. 
Spraying has done more harm than good in 1905. I have had such injury 
for four years, and though I have lessened the amount of copper sulphate 
in the bordeaux, it still continues. I use 5-5-50 formula with an arsenite. 
The more thoroughly I spray, the more injury I have. The tops of the 
trees that are hard to reach are the least injured. I have thought that wet 
weather favored the injury, but I have had the trouble for four years, wet 
or dry. Wet weather makes the injury show more quickly. Rhode Island 
Greening suffers most. Then Baldwin, Jonathan, and Ben Davis, while the 
Russets suffer but little.’— FLoyp Q. Wuirte, Yorktown. 
“About 50 of my trees were injured to the exterit that more than half 
the foliage dropped. In the remainder of the orchard the injury was not 
so great. For the past five years I have had some such injury on the foliage. 
It seems to be on the increase. I used 5 pounds of sulphate, 3 pints of a 
white arsenic solution, composed of 10 pounds of white arsenic, 40 pounds 
of sal soda and 10 gallons of water, to 50 gallons of water. In some in- 
stances spraying has done more harm than good the past season. I am 
inclined to lay the injury to atmospheric conditions, of which wet weather 
favors spray injury most. Baldwin is most susceptible to the injury. I 
have four trees which were not sprayed this year and all had first-class 
foliage.”— T. B. Wirson, Halls Corners, 
Reports from other states than New York are conflicting as 
to the possibility of properly made bordeaux mixture injuring . 
fruit or foliage. In seeking information on the subject from the 
horticulturists of all of the apple-growing states in the Union, I 
found that a majority of them doubted the possibility of serious 
harmful effects from the use of this spray. In all parts of the 
United States, however, experiences were related so nearly identical 
to those of fruit-growers in New York, that the fact of bordeaux 
injury wherever bordeaux mixture is used in this country, is estab- 
lished. The following letters from apple-growing regions of 
America furnish evidence to substantiate the above statement. 
“There has been considerable of the so-called spray injury on apples in 
this section the past season. There were all degrees of the damage seen 
from a slight russeting to a warty russeted pointed side growth of the apples. 
These malformations and the russeting were confined almost exclusively to ~ 
Ben Davis. There was a little of the russeting seen on Coffelt, Winesap, 
Gano, Shockley and Northern Spy. Arkansas showed some traces of the 
russeting.”— Ernest WALKER, Horticulturist, Arkansas Station, Fayetteville, 
Ark, 
“There have been some complaints made of spray injury in different 
parts of Canada, especially in the Maritime provinces, and in the Annapolis _ 
