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pesticide residue, a project that requires the combined efforts of many VDAC employees.

Hie work begins in the field where inspectors of the apple and peach section under J. H. Henley visit over 900 commercial orchards across the state and pick apples from trees selected at random. These are immature medium size apples about 2-1/4 to 3 inches in size. Henley pointed out that apples are picked by-and-large from the lower part of the tree, where liquid may accumulate. Many orchardists apply pesticides by spraying them on in a very fine mist by air blast on the ground although, with the increase in orchard size the use of crop dusting planes is coming more

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