. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. No appreciable difference in the results between the applications given early in the season at short intervals, as in plats 1 and 2, and those with early sprays, at longer intervals, as in plats 3 and 4, was to be noticed. The results of three early spraj's prop- erly applied at times indicated in plat 3 is worthy of special reference at this time. Out of 3,419 picked apples, over twelve bushels, from plat 3, only six apples could be found with worm holes from codling moth, or less than one-fifth of one per cent. So perfect was the result of these early sprayings
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. No appreciable difference in the results between the applications given early in the season at short intervals, as in plats 1 and 2, and those with early sprays, at longer intervals, as in plats 3 and 4, was to be noticed. The results of three early spraj's prop- erly applied at times indicated in plat 3 is worthy of special reference at this time. Out of 3,419 picked apples, over twelve bushels, from plat 3, only six apples could be found with worm holes from codling moth, or less than one-fifth of one per cent. So perfect was the result of these early sprayings in filling the calyx cups of the apples and prevent- ing apples wormy at the calyx end, that from a total of 29,380 windfall and picked apples from sprayed plats, not one was found wormy at the calyx end from cod- ling moth, while from 2,469 picked apples from unsprayed trees 268 were wormy at the calyx, or over 10%. Table VI brings together the data for both curculio and codling moth on both windfall and picked fruit, and combines the separate results shown in Tables IV and V. Examination shows that, consid- ering both pests, the additional late spray applied in July gave practically no increase in percentage of perfect fruit, since the three early applications in all plats had been given with almost perfect results. In no instance in the experi- ment where the early sprays had been applied did the additional late sprays in July pay for their added expense. In the plats sprayed with early appli- cations at shorter intervals, as given in plats 1 and 3, the results were slightly better than when the early sprays were separated with longer intervals, as in plats 3 and 4, though this would perhaps not have been the case had the codling moth been more abundant than the cur- culio. Comparing plats 1 and 2, sprayed after the former plan, with the corre- sponding plats 3 and 4 respectively, which were sprayed after the latter method, the difference in each case is practically only 1%
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