Show A BRIGHTER FUTURE FOR THE JUE APPLE mr C A per S secretary tit lit the state hoard board ut ul horticulture has J lost oat returned from rom cache valley where he be has been loves the results ot of experiments conducted by viol prof E t D ball ballot of the V utah tali experiment station antho on the effects ol of spraying god and banding forthe tor the codling cothin apples it li Is a known fact that this pest peat has forbears for years been one ot of the greatest drawbacks to the apple industry in tact fact it has baa totally discouraged a great number humber or of fruit raisers misers in this state the methods followed by mr ball are as follows through spraying with parts paris green as recommended in bulletin no io 10 of 0 this board of 0 which prof ball is an n advisory member in ia connection with the spraying praylo he has baa aim 00 bandaged the trees with burlap to catch what larva lana might hive hilve escaped the poison the beauty ot of prof balla balia work Is that it Is if not noi merely theory but be has demonstrate demon strat ed it on a commercial scale in the orchard of tho smart of a great part ol of the work has hag been done there are over four our hundred trees and mr smart says that previous loua to prof balls taking charge of his experimental purposes it was the ex caption to have any apples ampies free from worms A careful estimate estl mate ila hai been beca made ot of tho ike fruit on in the treet tree und not noi les than 09 00 per cout beut are tree free from worms mr spent over an hour in searching the orchard and tailed failed to find a slagle single wormy apple this fact demonstrates the of prof dallis balli farsi spraying spray log the feature of this experiment was vas the fact that some trees which were hidden by a thicket oo 00 ado end of the orchard were overlooked in the spraying and on these trees every apple bad fallen off through the excess ot of worms and these trees baa as much fruit on in the be winning ginning as the others the same was waa true pi an orchard in the immediate vicinity which had bad not beba sprayed ir ID this orchard mr looper found the fruit nearly all on the ground and what little was left on the trees was badly infested with the cridling moth mr william bibs has a small orchard ot of ben bea davis trees that he thoroughly sprayed as soo B the petals ot of bloom had bad fallen at a cost 0 r 75 and tie he averages from nyi that ono one frit about 38 pet per cent ot of apples that are now on t the he trees tree free from worms and these trees are loaded at this writing also D M compbell who owns a large apple orchard on providence bench has sprayed three times and bandaged twice during the summer and it Is estimated that he be has 97 per cent of ben davis tree free from worms and 93 03 to 65 95 per cent of other varieties free from worms while his neighbor abo did not properly spray has all the way from one to sixteen worms in most ot of his apples in fact there were very lew few tree free tron from worms corma in this orchard |