. Annual report of the Nebraska State Horticultural Society. Horticulture -- Nebraska. SPRAYING DEMONSTRATIONS. 263 Department of Agriculture and of the Experiment Station. Tlie plans were made and the records kept by the Department and Station. The work was conducted in three of the orchards by the Department alone, in one by the Station alone, and in the other two by the Department and Station together. W. M. Scott superintended the work for the Department of Agriculture and the writer represented the Experiment Station. Other men who assisted in the work were J. B. Rorer, Dudley Moulton and
. Annual report of the Nebraska State Horticultural Society. Horticulture -- Nebraska. SPRAYING DEMONSTRATIONS. 263 Department of Agriculture and of the Experiment Station. Tlie plans were made and the records kept by the Department and Station. The work was conducted in three of the orchards by the Department alone, in one by the Station alone, and in the other two by the Department and Station together. W. M. Scott superintended the work for the Department of Agriculture and the writer represented the Experiment Station. Other men who assisted in the work were J. B. Rorer, Dudley Moulton and Val Keyser of the Department and F. E. Denny of the Station. The Demoxstratiox Orchards.—The trees sprayed were mostly stand- ard varieties of winter apples, such as Ben Davis, Winesap, Gano, Missouri Pippin, Ralls Genet, and Jonathan. Some of the orchards were young. GASOLINE rOWER SPRAYING OI'TFIT AT WORK IN THE LINCOLN ORCHARD. and others old. the age varying from twelve to twenty-six years. Some of the trees were therefore rather small, while others were very large. Some of the orchards were close planted, with as high as 80 trees per acre, while others had not over 40 trees to the acre. The trees of some of the orchards had been pruned fairly well, while those of other orchards had not been pruned at all, recently, and were therefore so filled up with unnecessary branches as to m_ake thorough spraying difficult. The Sprayed and Check Plats.—In each of the six orchards a block of not less than 250 trees (in one orchard 890 trees) was laid off for the spraying demonstration, and in each orchard also a block of trees was left un-prayed as a check. The remainder of the orchard in each case. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Nebraska State Horticultural Society. Lincoln, Neb. : The Society
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