New York AGRICULTURAL ExPERIMENT STATION. . 697 
Method of application.— In spraying this orchard in 1893 the 
force pump was mounted on a kerosene cask holding about fifty 
gallons. The pump was provided with two outlets, so that it 
supplied two leads of hose. The cask was set in a one-horse 
wagon and filled with forty-five gallons of Bordeaux mixture at 
atime. The driver pumped and while one man sprayed the 
lower branches with the Vermorel nozzle another sprayed the tree 
tops with the McGowen nozzle. In planning to treat large 
orchards a tank holding from one hundred and fifty to two 
hundred gallons: would be better than a fifty-gallon cask, 
because less time would be consumed in making the mixture and 
taking it to the orchard. 
The fruit was picked the fourth week in September and assorted 
into three grades, namely, firsts, seconds and culls. The firsts 
and seconds were marketed. No use was made of the culls. 
Plate V.II is reproduced from a photograph of the average fruit 
of sprayed White Doyennés and the average fruit of unsprayed 
White Doyennés. It will help to form a correct idea of the 
difference on the average between the sprayed and the unsprayed 
fruit of this variety. With Seckels the difference was less marked, 
The grading and marketing was done by Mr. William Smith 
according to his usual custom, and a record was kept of the sales. 
He reports that the following prices were realized for the different 
grades of fruit: 
Taste XIX. 
Sprayed. Unsprayed. 
Seckels: ry 
Sh re $2.25 to $2.75 per bu. keg.|$1.25 to $1.75 per bu. keg. 
seconds ...... 176 :t0.2.00) 5" ee reOOitO® L.sOn ae 
‘White Doyenné: 
BARStS:.. 2. ns 6 4.50 per bbl. (1.80 per bu.)| None. 
Seconds ...... | Brea is: 1.30 “ {$2.00 per bbl.(0.80 per bu.) 

There was no first-class fruit among the unsprayed White Doy- 
ennés. Much of the second-class fruit from the unsprayed White 
Doyennés was unfit for market and was not sold. What was 
sold brought the price above named. In the following table the 
unsold fruit of this class is credited with the market price as if it 
were sold. At the above prices the average yield per tree would 
give the following receipts: 
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