3860 Reporr oF THE HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT OF THD 
Following is a sketch of the weather in Niagara and Orleans 
counties during the blooming season 1900: 
Monday, May 13. Sunny most of the time. Very windy. 
Tuesday, May 14: Partly cloudy, cool, very windy in morn- 
ing. Thunder heads came up at 3 p. m., and there were heavy 
showers through the night. 
Wednesday, May 15. Cool and cloudy in morning, becoming 
slightly warmer and sun came out in afternoon. 
Thursday, May 16. Light showers from 6:30 to 8:30 a. m. 
Cleared off at 10. Sunny with cool wind in afternoon. 
Friday, May 17. .Cool and cloudy all day. 
Saturday, May 18. Cool and cloudy in morning. Sun came 
out at 9:30, but cold wind during rest of the day. 
Sunday, May 19. Sunny; cold northwest wind. 
Monday, May 20. Opened with a slight shower at Medina, 
becoming sunny and a little warmer in afternoon, but wind cool. 
The first three experiments were made in the orchard of Harry 
Jackson, Medina. This is an orchard of about twenty acres, 
twenty-five years old, and is mostly Baldwin and Rhode Island 
Greening, with a few Maiden Blush, Twenty Ounce and Spy 
intermingled. It was in sod and pastured with sheep until the 
spring of 1899, when it was plowed and then tilled once a week 
through the summer. Tillage was begun the past season, but 
was discontinued in mid-summer. The orchard was sprayed for 
the first time in 1899, the Kedzie mixture of white arsenic and 
sal-soda being used, and about six pounds of lime added to every 
50 gallons of mixture. Two sprayings were given; the first 
before the blossoms opened, and the second when the fruit had 
set. The same treatment was given to all but a few trees, which 
were unavoidably sprayed when in full bloom. A numerous 
brood of canker worms was kept down that year by the arsenite. 
Very few were seen last season (1900). A few bud moths and 
case-bearers could be found in 1900, but not enough to do serious 
damage. All varieties except Spy have been nearly free from 
