sprayed trees at Baraboo in 1909, fifty-four barrels were sound and seven barrels unsound, making a percentage of unsound fruit of 11 per cent. From 145 barrels of McMahons harvested from sprayed trees on the farm of Henry Dworak at Casco, Kewaunee County, 135 barrels were estimated sound and ten barrels unsound, giving a percentage of unsound fruit of 7.2 per cent. At Oshkosh in 1909, on the farm of R. T. Smith the average precentage of unsound fruit on sprayed trees, all varieties, was 6.5 per cent. The average percentage of unsound fruit from unsprayed trees was 81.7 per cent.

The above figures represent only in part the data collected but will give an idea of average conditions. The beginner in orchard spraying must understand that orchard spraying means making a business-like investment and giving close attention to such details as 1, selection of desirable equipment and spray materials, and 2, timeing the applications in accordance with the development of the pests in the orchard.

The following estimate of complete equipment is given using 200 bearing trees as a basis. The reader is asked to notice that all material and equipment is purchased new, and that on the average farm there is considerable chance to economize upon the statement given. The average orchardist shows a tendency to neglect the work by selecting equipment and material unsuitable for the purpose and otherwise neglecting essential details.

Total Investment for Spraying 200 Bearing Trees.
Barrel pump

25 feet 1/2′′ hose, 5 to 7 ply

Bamboo extension rod

$20 00

3 00

2.00

VEGETABLE GARDENING.

THE FARMER'S GARDEN.

A. J. PHILIPS, West Salem, Wis.

A Mr. I. W. Ingham of Bradford county, Pennsylvania, sent a paper on the above subject to be read at the summer meeting of this Society at La Crosse last summer, which varied so much from my idea of a Wisconsin farmer's garden that I am asked to reply to it. And in order to do so I will have to give some of his main points so my audience can understand this paper. First. He says the discoveries and improvements of each member tend to stimulate to greater effort by contact with each other. This I am free to admit is so. Second. He claims that a majority of the farmers have poor gardens. I will amend this by this change: that the minority have poor or no gardens. Third. He said that the late Waldo F. Brown of Ohio said that a majority of farmers fall below their privilege in not having a good garden. He answered that by saying that farmers had the privilege of going to summer resorts or to the seaside but they did not go because they had not the time or money to spare. I reply to this by saying that no class of people have more time and money to spend on vacations than the Wisconsin dairy farmers for from my station more farmers went to the Chicago, Omaha and Seattle expositions than did any other one class of men. Fourth. He says the field crops are the farmers' main dependence while his garden is not. I reply by saying that no place on the farm of the same size and run by the same expense affords the farmer and his family more of the necessaries and maintenance of his family and friends than does the garden, for when company comes unexpectedly, when threshers come, when corn shredders and silo fillers come, when carpenters or masons come to make improvements or repairs during the summer and fall, what is the first thing his good wife does? She may scold a little on the side because she has not had more time to prepare; then she sends some one for a few groceries; then to help out in supplying a bountiful meal, she gets a move on and sends the hired girl or hikes to the garden herself for the bulk of her supplies, and she usually gets it without first mowing down the weeds