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Show IT PAYS TO SPRAY. P.ven with nil the cumulative evidence evi-dence In favor of sprn)ing there are n few farmers In Utah who declare that the spra)lng law 'was got up Just to sell pumps" Such men are not open to conviction, else they would lie convinced con-vinced h) the results of tpraylng to be noted In every neighborhood l'nr Instance, In-stance, Prof 1'iank M Drlggs of the State School for the Deaf at Ogden le-ports le-ports thnt the apples from the orchard In connection with that school were 86 per rent fiee from worms In 1101 Prof Drlggs attributes the wormless apples lo the thorough spra)lng Just serosa the stieet from the orchard In ques- j (lon there nre numerous oichards that were not spra)ed and the apples were 100 per cent worm), thus showing that , location had nothing to do with Prof Drlggs s success There are dozens of orchardlsts in Weber county who have succeeded equal lo Plot Drlftgs and It would be difficult to frame a law stringent enough to prevent these men from spri)lng One Buch man Is limes Darker of North Ogdnn and he spiajed before theie wns nny livv on the subject sub-ject Mr Murker usunlly his M to 90 per cent of his npi les fice from worms Down In California nccordlng to the California Prult Orowcr, Ihe Cirinel valle) apple growers get as high as 07 per cent of their opples free from worms by spralng their orchards several times Thl makes the sprn)-Ing sprn)-Ing cost about 10 cents a bushel W ho would not gtvo 10 cents per bushel or even ten times that more for apples that hive no worms than for the dls-Kiistlng dls-Kiistlng rotten worm-eaten apples Hundreds of Instances might be cited to prove the enicic) of spralng. but the Intelligent orchnrdlst does not need tho testimony, and as for the mosshick well he should go nwuy back ond sit down outside the orchard. or-chard. . |