DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 785 It is very important to make sure that the calyx cups are well filled with poison, and it is quite evident that failure may result just at this point. Professor M. V. Slingerland says: Apples were then picked from a tree which had been sprayed just after the petals fell, and our chemist demonstrated that there was arsenic in the covered cup of the calyx.' On the other hand, the late Professor E. G. Lodeman, author of The Spraying of Plants,' and a recognized authority on the subject, in a letter written December 19, 1895, says: 'Neither do I believe that in ordinary spraying there is placed any appreciable amount of arsenic in the calyx basin. analyzed, and have never found even a trace of poison.' These comI have had many of these ments are sufficient to show the need of care. that only 75 or 80 per cent. of the larvae enter at this point. What, Our observations show then, is to be the fate of the balance? The chances are nearly all against this spraying in any way affecting them. Of course, it may happen that now and then one will be poisoned where the liquid has been held between two apples or between a leaf and an apple. But we are fairly warranted in expecting this other twenty per cent. to get in their work and go on reproducing their kind throughout the balance of the season unless checked by some other means. three or four generations a year, it will be seen that this percentage With is amply sufficient to people our orchards and riddle our fruit before winter. The problem, then, as it presents itself to us, is how to circumvent the work of this remnant which we cannot control by ordinary spraying. Still another difficulty often appears by the prox imity of a neighboring orchard which receives no care, and from which moths may drift across to reinforce the enemy upon our own grounds." 50-6-97 786 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE FARM WAGES; (SUMMER MONTHS). Hand Employed for the Summer Months Only, with Board Furnished by the Employer. FARM WAGES; (WHOLE YEAR). Hand Employed for the Whole Year, and Boarded by the Employer; Wages per Month. Counties. 788 ANNUAL REPORT CF THE FARM WAGES AND BOARD, OCTOBER 1, 1897. Estimated cost of boarding farm hands per day. $0.30 1 25 15.00 20.00 1.00 150 2.25 Armstrong. 10.00 12.00 62 14.00 16 50 85 175 Beaver, 10.00 12.50 90 17.00 20.00 1.00 2.00 Bedford, 10.00 12.00 87 16.50 18 75 1.00 160 Berks, 11 50 14.00 1.00 17.00 19.00 1.00 175 Blair, 10.00 16.00 1 10 22.00 27 00 150 1.90 Bradford, 14.00 16 CO 90 20.00 25.00 1 1 25 2.50 Bucks, 12.00 18.00 1 20 20.00 24.00 175 2.00 Butler, 11.00 16.00 110 20.00 25 (0 1 25 1 37 75 Cambria, 10.00 15.00 90 20.00 25.00 80 2.50 Cameron, 14 CO 17.00 1. 10 18 50 25.00 125 2.25 Carbon, 12.00 16.00 1.00 20 60 25.00 2.00 Centre, 13.00 16.50 90 17.50 21 (0 75 1 1.00 150 Chester, 12.00 15 CO 120 20 CO 24.00 1 25 1.40 2.00 Clarion, 10.00 16.00 Clearfield, 15 00 20.00 20.00 26.00 1.20 125 2.00 1 25 20.00 25.00 115 125 2.00 Clinton, 12.00 15.00 1.00 15.00 20 CO 1.00 12) 150 Columbia, 12.00 15.00 1.00 18 CO 1 CO 1 10 2.00 Crawford, 11 50 16 00 18.00 1 25 2.00 Cumberland, 10.50 15.50 22.00 90 1.00 1 87 Dauphin, 12.00 15.00 SO 20.00 22 50 75 90 175 Delaware, 12 (0 1500 1 18 CO 1.20 2.00 Elk, 20.00 25.00 125 22.00 30.00 1.50 1 75 Erie. 15.00 18 CO 1 00 22 00 24.00 1.00 1 25 2.00 Fayette, 15.00 18.50 20.00 21 CO 1.00 125 00 Forest. 14 CO 18.00 110 20.00 25.00 10) 1 35 75 Franklin, 10.00 13 00 17.50 21.00 1.00 125 1 1 25 Fulton, 8.00 10 CO 15.00 60 1 00 125 1 Greene, 11.00 14.00 85 16.50 20.00 1.00 1 10 1 37 Huntingdon, 12.50 16.00 1 17 CO 20.00 1.00 110 175 Indiana, 12.00 15.00 20.00 24 00 90 1.00 150 Jefferson, 12.00 14.00 20.00 1.00 1 1 20 2 25 Juniata, 8.50 11 50 75 12.50 16.50 1.00 1 25 1.50 Lackawanna, 13 00 15.00 125 25.00 28 (0 1 25 1.50 2.00 Lancaster, 12.50 16.50 1.00 20.00 25 (0 1.00 1.25 Lawrence, 11.00 13 00 17.00 20 (0 1.00 1 50 Lebanon, 12.00 15.00 20 00 1 10 2.00 Lehigh, Lycoming. 10.50 13 (0 1.00 15.00 1.00 1 75 15.00 18 00 25.00 30.00 2.60 11.00 16.00 21 01 1 20 2.00 McKean, 15.00 19.00 125 20.00 27.00 1 25 150 2.00 Mercer, 14 00 18.00 1 12 20.00 1 21 (0 1.00 1 1 25 210 Mithin. 9.00 12.00 ! 14.50 18.00 75 1.00 125 Monroe, 12.00 15.00 20.00 25.07 10 1 25 270 Montgomery, 12.00 16 001 1.00 20 CO 25.00 10) 1 20 175 Montour, 10.00 I 12.00 85 20.00 24.00 75 1.10 2:00 | Northampton, 10.00 12.50 18.00 23.09 129 1 1.25 2.00 Northumberland, 11.00 14.00 1.00 15.0 75 1.00 2.00 Perry, 9.00 12.00 12.00 16.00 60 150 Philadelphia, 17.00 21.00 30.00 2.00 Pike. 13.00 18.00 1 1.25 14.00 18.00 1 10 125 270 Potter. 12 CO 15.00 1.00 25 18 CO 20.00 1(0 1.10 1.50 Schuylkill, 12.50 18.00 i 160 24.00 30.00 25 i 70 2.00 Snyder, 10.00 15.00 1.00 12.50 17.00 10 150 Somerset, 12 00 15.00 1.00 18 00 24.00 2.00 Sullivan, 15.00 20.00 1.00 20.00 25.00 1.10 1.25 2.00 Susquehanna, 12 CO 16.00 1.00 15.00 20.00 85 1.25 250 Tioga, 16.00 18.00 1.00 20.00 24 (0 100 125 2(0 Union, 11.00 11.00 T 1.00 16 (0 20.00 100 Venango, Warren, Wayne, 1 10 175 11.00 14.00 1 20 17.00 22.00 1.00 1.20 2.00 14.00 16.00 1.00 20.00 22 50 1.00 Washington, 150 1 2.00 14.00 16.00 1.00 18 00 22 (0 1.00 125 2.00 15.00 18.00 1.20 27 00 33.01 125 1.50 2.00 Westmoreland, 11.00 15.00 1.00 18.00 24.00 1.60 1 25 2.25 Wyoming, 12.00 15.50 1.60 16.50 22.00 110 1 25 175 York, 10 00: 12 50 85 16.00 20.00 90 1 25 150 |