COMPULSORY FRUIT-SPRAYING.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 784, 6 April 1910, Page 10

COMPULSORY FRUIT-SPRAYING.

Speaking in regard to the necessity of all'fruitgrowers being compelled to spray their trees as a cure for codlin moth, Mr. F. Sisson, at the meeting of the Canterbury, Fruitgrowers' Association on' Saturday" night, said that orohardists living adjacent to those who neglected to spray had to treat their trees several times a year; hut if everybody, sprayed, after a couple of years, one spraying per season would be enough, and that • would save a great deal of expense., Mr. Rao said he had to spray four times with lead this year, and it was' heartrending for a grower to find people around about him doing nothing. Another member present suggested .that, as in the case of laying poison for rabbits, if a grower gave a neighbouring grower notice that he waa going to spray, then, the neighbouring grower should he .compelled' .to spray also. This suggestion found', favour with the meeting. Mr.'Taylor related how he'had offered to spray, a .neighbouring lady's orchard,, but .sho had declined the offer, remarking; that. some-' one had told*, her • spraying - would liot. kill the moths''-already* in-'tho apple. (Laughter.), He had then informed her that that was so, but it would kill the others, and so save future apples. Tho way he looked at it was that by spraying a neighbour's trees he would bo spraying his own, as tho object of spraying one's own trees was defeated if the, moth from over the fenco was allowed free play.