fruit one year, he may
say, "I guess I don't want to go to that expense this year; I will drop
that." You know how it is. If you make a contract for five years then
you can make your plans accordingly and get your material and your
spraying outfit and everything. I wouldn't trust to a one-year plan
because they get "cold feet," as the saying is, after the first year,
and perhaps they have not noticed any great advantage and they back
out, but if they keep it up five years they wouldn't be without it.

In a small way it isn't necessary to have a high power, high pressure
engine to do this spraying with. A _good_ hand pump, as they make them
now, has a very efficient force in applying this spray. It is not the
force with which the spray material is applied that makes it effective,
so much as it is the thoroughness with which it is done. You have to do
a thorough job. In spraying you are providing insurance for your apple
crop. That is just what it means, and not to spray is like doing without
fire insurance on your buildings. You do that, not because you want
fire, but you are doing it for protection, you are going to be on the
safe side. You are doing like the darkey woman when she was about to be
married. She had been working as cook, and the day came for her to be
married. That morning she brought a roll of bills down to the boss. She
said: "Mr. Johnson, I wish you would keep this money for me. I's gwine
to be married." He said: "Is that so? But why do you come to me with
this? I should think having a husband you would have him take care of it
for you." She said: "Lord a' massy. Do you think I was gwine to have
that money around the house wid dat strange nigger there? No, sir."
(Laughter.)

That lady was taking the precaution of being on the safe side, and that
is what we do when we spray our orchards, we are going to be safe.

There are a great many kinds of spraying materials. There is the
bordeaux, one of our best fungicides, but we find in Illinois that it
also, while it is a good fungicide, has the effect sometimes of burning
the fruit if the weather conditions are just right. If you have pretty
fair weather conditions up here and don't have too much rain, you
probably would not get your fruit affected too much, and if you are not
growing it for market it doesn't matter so much because all it does is
to russet the fruit. It doesn't do any particular harm except when the
scab fungus is especially bad, for then it