No Danger From Sprayed Fruit

It was naturally to be expeoted that the fruit-ooDB'umJng pabllc would object at fjrst to purcha-M-iig fruit whieli they knew had been sprayed wUb poison. TbáM i sliown in tlie reent "grape aoace" in New York City, and tlie present attitude of certain Englïsdi journals toward the importation of American apples. l!u,t whem the Bpnytag, with elttoer the insecticide or fuiiui' cli's now commonly in use. is done with proper reference to the tïme, metliodn, aad conditiions of treatment, there ;s no dangor to the eon-sumer. Botlh practical experlenco and cbemiicaj tcst.i ii.-ive repeatedly i'hown iliat applcs xprayeil early In i ï i - scasiiii witli Parte Green or Lon!on purph' retaiin none of t'he polSOD Bit ttue titae of ripenintr. The most retent deouonstraiUon of tliis appears in the last report of the experimental farms of Caainda. A peek of Rtoode Isiaiid gTeening apples tht had been sprayed twicfl with Paria green (one pound to two hundred gallons of water) were carefully gathered, without rubbing, and tested for arsnic. "The process to whith they were submitted is one thflt affords extremoly accurate results, and ie oonsidered the most delicate of all for the detection of arsenic, It is capable of revea ling tlve presence of one fUty-thousandth part of a graln of arsenio. If twenty-tbree thousand busJu'ls of apples contnined two and a half grajns of arsenic, the minimum Satal löse for an adult, tlhe poison could have been detected by thie method." Xotwith.standing the most careiul aiialysjis no traces of poison were found ; and, in conclusión, the cheniIst states : ''I am of the opinión that further experimenta of this nature would only enerve to corrobórate thi.s negative result, and to prove that there are no grounds on which to base ■ i-uspjcion that our eprayed apples are poisonous. The insoluble character of thiis poison precluding1 lts' asBlmilatiou by tlie apple, if such -were possdble, the in initesimal part of Paria green that can remniie on the apple, lh,e frequent rains subsequent ta the spraying, . . .all go to gubstantiate the argument tluat there is not the slightest danger of poleoning in us-:ng .sprayed apples."- Fnom An Agricultural Revolution, by Prof. Clarence M. Weed, n The Popular Science M.onfhly or Mai-.h.