ilips: Too vigorous a growth on the tree is liable to get injured
in the winter anyway. I like to see a good growth. I like to see it grow
and then pinch it back in the fall. You can pinch it back a good deal
easier when it has made a good growth than to make it grow big enough.

Mr. Street: I would like to know whether we should force all of the
growth into the scion the first year where we graft on trees that have
been set two years.

Mr. Philips: One of the pleasures of doing top-working is to watch the
growth of the grafts. I did a good deal of that on Sunday. You might do
worse than communing with nature. You watch them same as you watch the
growth of anything else, and if you think the graft is growing too fast
let some of the shoots on the stock grow to take part of the sap, but if
you think it is growing too slow and these shoots are robbing it, cut
them off. I like a good growth on grafts; it looks more like doing
business.

Mr. Street: But the second year would you keep all of the growth in the
graft?

Mr. Philips: Yes, sir, the second year I would, and if it makes too
large a growth pinch off the end. I put in some for a neighbor this
season, and I go down and see to them every two weeks. If I thought they
made too much growth in August I pinched them back so as to make them
ripen up quicker. I don't like to have them grow too late; as Mr.
Kellogg said, frost will get them. (Applause.)

Spraying the Orchard.

HON. H. M. DUNLAP, SAVOY, ILLS.

(Continued from March No.)

Then just as soon as your bloom falls, just as soon as the blossom
petals fall, then you want to spray again. You should use arsenate of
lead along with your lime-sulphur in both sprayings, because your
arsenate of lead will take care of a great many insects that injure the
fruit. The first spraying, immediately before the bloom, with arsenate
of lead is for the curculio, what is called the Palmer worm, for canker
worm--if you have any of them--the tent caterpillar, the leaf roller and
various other insects that injure the fruit and the foliage. The spray
just immediately after the bloom in addition to fungous is a codling
moth spray. To get rid of the codling moth worm you use the arsenate of
lead. The codling moth egg hatches shortly after the bloom falls, and
the little worm instinctively goes into the blossom end of the apple,
because that is the only place it can enter the apple at that particular
time. Just why it does n