GROWERS PROTEST BAN ON APPLES APPLES' WASHINGTON May 22 AP AP- AP Apple growers In the Northwest have lave complained to the department of f agriculture that the activities of the department In preventing sala sah of appl apples s alle alleged d t to contain an Injurious in- in jurious nt amo o of oC arsenical sj ray residues was daI damaging the market for their crop of which a large large- surplus sur SUr- plus plu OJ remains remain unsold New v York and ami Washington Washington deal deal dealers ers receiving shipments of apples from the Northwest recently were notified by the tho department that th there here re was too much ars on the fruit and that unless it was wiped clean its sale would not be per per- The department has Issued n nj statement on the tho subject since one sorno some months ago to the effect that the presence of spray spra residues on apples shipped l to tu London had se severely severely se- se verely Injured the British market ml for American fruit although no node de death th or illness was waR known to have j resulted from tram eating the apples Spraying experts of the department have been sent to in the to demonstrate safe ufe methods