Show how potato spraying paid some potato prowers growers according to a recent statement from the depart input flient of agriculture have expressed the opinion that it does not pay to spray potatoes for late into night that thorough thoro spraying will control the might in seasons of imd had infection has boon been proved many lines lilies in the lie past says riis the statement and most moat recently recen fly in Aroos aroostook took county me in 1017 among other oilier places in the county this ans as shown conclusively nt at Aroot ook farm where extensive experiments were conducted liy by tile the united states department of agriculture in co tion the maine agricultural experiment peri perli ment nent station in ili one block where small test plots sprayed with standard hor denux mixture were interspersed lilt plots tle the average yield Y beld on 11 of the former ins n ut fit the lie ri rate te of 1812 0 bushels per acre while that flint on nn an equal number of untreated plots plot hiis is at tile the rate of nt 1435 bushels per nere tin nn increase of bushi bushels 1 per acre or more than 25 per cent in ili favor of bordeaux mixture |