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Show That it pas to do everything properly prop-erly istlcmonstrated by the results of Prof. Hall's spraying in the Smart orchard, or-chard, as related in the last Issue of Tin: Rki'uiimcan. Prof. Hall took an absolutely worthless two-acre orchard or-chard and hi two years' made It pay Mr. Smart $i00, He sprayed, did nothing no-thing but spray, to obtain these re-suits, re-suits, but lie did it right. Others have sprajed and sprayed, but the results havo not been obtained. Why' The answer is obvious. It will pay every fruit grower to rcniembor.as Prof.Hall says, that there arc but five days In each year In which to spray. These aro the live days Immediately following follow-ing the fall of the blossom. Then when the spraying Is done, let it be from some distance above, and witli a sprayer having a pressure of from so to 120 pounds. The Smart orchard lias becnticated along these lines, and today Mr. Smart has Un orchard wltlr fruit less than one per cent imperfect, If Mr. Smart will take care of hisor-chard hisor-chard in the future and thin his fruit In the spring, he will have apples that for quality, sl.o and beauty will compare with anything the Pacific coast can produce. Ills apples this year, .while of good size, wcro not as they might have been had the proper thing been done. |