Show spraying Spray iny trees tree inspector ande requests the publication of the following from a little hand book by clarence M weed both practical experience and chemical tests haye demonstrated that apples sprayed early in the season with paris green and london purple letain none of the prison at the time of ripen aug the moat recent demonstration ot ahill appears in the last of the experimental farms of canada A peck of rhode island greening apples that oad been sprayed twice with paris arean one pound 0 o two hundred bailers bailors cf water were carefully gathered without rubbing and tested for arsenic the process to which they were submitted is one that ex accuse ref culta and is con the most delicate of all for the detection of arsenic it is capable of revealing the presence of one fifty thousandth part of a grain 0 if thousand bushela of apples contained two and a half krstina of arenie the fat at dofie for an adut the could have been detected by abia method notwithstanding the most careful analysis no tiace of poison were found and in conclusion tc chemist states 1 I am of the opi uon that futher experiments peri ments of this nature would only serve to corroborate thia re suit and to prove that there are no grounds on which to base suspicion that our sprayed apples are oos onous the insoluble character or this poison pre eluding its assimilation by the apple if ench were possible the infinitesimal part of paris green that can remain on the aeple tle frequent raina jaent to the spraying all vo to sab stant iata the argument that their ia not the slightest danger of poisoning in using sprayed applee |