4 SPRAYING IN BLOOM.* 
An Account of LasoratTory AND Firup EXPERIMENTS BY THE 
New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT. STATION, GENEVA, 
N. Y.; Including also the Resuttrs or FIELD 
EXPERIMENTS BY THE CORNELL UNIVERSITY 
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, 
IpHaca, N: *Y: 

SUMMARY. 
RESULTS OF INVESTIGATIONS BY THE 
CORNELL UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, 
ITHACA, N. Y. 
The field experiments conducted by the Cornell Experiment 
Station show no decisive results from spraying apple trees when 
in bloom. This is probably because the year 1900 was one of - 
heavy crop and of little disease, and good or fair crops followed 
all treatments and even no treatment. It is significant, how- 
ever, that thorough spraying when in bloom did not seem to 
diminish the crop. 
There was no apparent injury to the blossoms on trees sprayed 
when in full bloom. 
RESULTS .OF INVESTIGATIONS 
BY THE NEW YORK AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, 
GENEVA, N. Y. 
During the season of 1900 the Station commenced an investi- 
gation of the effect of spraying fruit trees when in bloom with 
the mixtures commonly used in fighting insects and diseases 
in orchards. Studies of the effect of the spray mixtures on the 
*Reprint of Bulletin No. 196. 
