New YorK AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 45 
in sprayed orchards there was considerable scab. Scabby fruit 
is always less salable than clean fruit, and during October there 
developed a destructive and unusual kind of rot? which brought 
scabby fruit into such ill repute that many buyers refused to 
handle it at any price. Many owners of unsprayed orchards 
found themselves possessed of large quantities of scabby fruit for 
which there was no sale. In most well-sprayed orchards, on the 
contrary, there was a fair amount of clean salable fruit; and so, 
notwithstanding the injury to the foliage, it is probable that 
Spraying proved profitable in the majority of cases, although a 
few orchards were so severely injured by spraying that the crop 
was ruined. 
At the close of the’ season, and with the data all before us, we 
are still of the opinion that it would be unwise to abandon the 
spraying of‘apples because of the unfavorable experience of the 
past season. There is no doubt that the foliage will sometimes 
be injured even when the spray mixtures are properly prepared 
and applied, but it is rare that the injury will be as severe as it 
was in 1902. So far as we can learn, there is no previous record 
of such widespread and serious damage from spraying. On the 
other hand, the ravages of scab and codlin moth are considerable 
nearly every season and often practically ruin the crop. The only 
successful method of fighting these pests is by spraying, which 
must be practiced if fine fruit is to be expected. 
*This rot was caused by the fungus Cephalothecium roseum and attacked only scabby apples. 
It will be fully discussed in a bulletin of this Station to be issued soon. A brief preliminary 
account of it appeared in Science 16:747. 7 N. 1902. The day on which this Bulletin went 
to press, December 16, Cornell Experiment Station Bulletin No. 207 was received. It is 
entitled, ‘‘Pink Rot: An Attendant of Apple Scab,’’ and consists chiefly of a discussion of 
the rot above mentioned. However, a part of page 168 treats of the injury to apple foliage 
by spraying. The authors state that wherever lime was added to the bordeaux mixture in 
excess of the required amount the injury was correspondingly lessened. Accordingly, they 
recommend that, ‘‘in rainy seasons at least twice the regular amount of lime should be used 
in making a bordeaux mixture.” 
