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Show Sprayed Fruit Shows Big Profits for Orchardist A summary of the apple blotch control con-trol demonstrations In several Ohio counties shows that where blotched trees were spruyed CO per cent of the fruit was free from blemish and the remaining 10 per cent was marketable. market-able. On unspniyed blotched trees l"0 per cent of the fruit was blotched so badly that It whs unmarketable. On the average the cost of spraying JnT tree was from .'H to 'M cents. Including In-cluding the sprays for codling moth. Four sprays were applied, two, four, six and ton weeks after the petal-fall. The second and tenth weeks' spray was for codling moth, and contained lead In addition to the regular spray, l'i pounds of powdered arsenate of which consisted of 3 pounds of blue stone, 5 iiunds of hydrates lime and oO gallons of water. An example of the difference In yield between the sprnyeu and the un.sprayed fruit may be noted on two Smith c!dT trees In southern Ohio. The unsprayed tree yielded two bushels of apples worth $1 a bushel. The other tree yielded thirteen bushels of apples worth $2.r0 a bushel. The difference between $2 and $.12.50 paid handsome profits for spraying. This work was done co-oerfltlvely with the nrrhnrdlsts by the county farm bureaus, the Ohio State University Uni-versity and the United States Depart nient of Agriculture. |