ory that we have applied it to a great number of other
varieties with equal satisfaction. Once put in a tree, it is good for
the life of the tree.

Our objection to a tree with a central leader is that it is very
difficult to create an open head, and if the blight strikes the leader
it generally means the loss of the tree. Low headed trees we have found
by experience, are easiest cared for; they are the most economical for
thinning, harvesting, spraying and pruning; they also shade the trunk
and main limbs.

After pruning all brush is removed from the orchard and burned.

The next operation is spraying, and our first spraying was done when
most of the petals were down, using a Cushman power sprayer, running at
two hundred pounds pressure, with two leads of hose and extension rods
with two nozzles on each. Spraying solution, six gallons of lime and
sulphur, twelve pounds of arsenate of lead paste to each tank of water
containing two hundred gallons. We aim to cover the tree thoroughly from
top to bottom and spray twice each season. However, the past season half
the orchard only was sprayed twice, the other half only once, the second
spraying being applied about two weeks after the first, when we use lime
and sulphur only, and then five gallons instead of six, in each tank of
water. We use angle nozzles, the better to direct the spray into the
calyxes.

The orchard was mowed twice during the summer, early in June and the
middle of July. A heavy growth of clover covers most of the orchard, and
none is ever removed, all is left to decay just as it is left by the
mowers.

The next thing in line to take our attention is thinning the fruit. The
past season we thinned the Wealthy and top-worked varieties only;
another season, we expect to carry this work to every tree in the
orchard. The trees were gone over twice in the season, although the bulk
of the work is done at the first operation. We use thinning shears made
expressly for the purpose.

By the end of July the trees in many instances were carrying maximum
loads, and unless rendered assistance by propping in some way, the
limbs, great numbers of them, must soon break. To get props to prop
hundreds of trees, needing from five to six up to a dozen per tree, and
apply them, looked like a big job. To purchase lumber for props the
price was prohibitive; to get them from the woods was impossible. We
finally solved the problem by purchasing bamboo fish poles, sixteen and