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88 Report oF THE Boranist OF THE 
TABLE SHOWING COosT oF SPRAYING CUCUMBERS. 
Location of expériment. Ar 6 Berar eds ne pile or apple: for each ogi 
‘ acre. tions. cation. 
GTreenia Wis. s2.6 ss soho ch eras oat 3 Bs i $23 74 7 $3 39 
INGENSR Ark le Sls Ver Stee Oe 2 22 10 8 2 76 
MOC CaCl seals sara ce She eee 2 15 60 5 3 20 
Smithtown Branch . i. os sce. 2.15 17 03 7 2 43 
The differences may be due in part to variation in thoroughness 
of spraying. The more thorough the spraying the greater the 
amount.of labor. The facilities for obtaining water also have a 
bearing on the cost of spraying. 
Spraying was most expensive at Greenlawn, where each appli- 
cation cost $3.39 per acre, and least expensive at Smithtown 
Branch, where it cost $2.43 per acre. The greater expense at 
Greenlawn is explained in part by the following: Both at Green- 
lawn and Smithtown Branch each application spoiled a half day, 
and consequently a half day’s labor was charged, although the 
acreage at Smithtown Branch was more than one-fourth greater 
than at Greenlawn. 
In all of these experiments one-half day was allowed for each 
spraying, while in no case was a full half day required to do the 
work. Sometimes the work was completed within two hours. 
Consequently, the actual cost of spraying was less than it is given 
in the table. 
The cost might also have been lessened if the fields had been 
planted in such a way that a one-horse cart could have been used 
to haul the outfit. . Such an outfit ean be easily handled by one 
horse provided the field is not hilly, but there is a difficulty to 
overcome — either the cart must have a tread of sufficient width to 
cover two rows (which requires the wheels to be nine or ten feet 
apart) or else special roadways must be prepared for the passage 
of the cart. In a former bulletin™ we suggested that the cucum- 

24 N. Y. Agrl. Expt. Sta. Bul. 119: 180. 
