STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. I3T 



this conference we secured the support of practically all the 

 leading manufacturers. There are two or three still kicking a 

 little about it, but practically all the leading manufacturers are 

 thoroughly in favor of this measure as a result of that confer- 

 ence, and there was a committee appointed to push this matter, 

 through the country and before Congress. On this committee 

 we put the representatives of two of the largest manufacturers 

 of insecticides and fungicides, two entomologists and one agri- 

 cultural chemist. To show that the manufacturers who are 

 selling legitimate insecticides and fungicides believe this is a 

 good thing, I may say that they are putting up the money for 

 pushing this work throughout the country, and they are working 

 hard. One representative of one firm has been out West push- 

 ing this matter before the western fruit organizations, and 

 another representative is caring for the southeastern part of the 

 United States. 



We have appointed an advisory board of one man from each 

 state to work up interest in this measure and to see that the 

 interest through his state is focussed on Congress. I have asked 

 Dr. Twitchell to do that work in Maine and he has kindly con- 

 sented to do so. 



Now it seems to me very evident that we need some legisla- 

 tion of this kind. I am not familiar with the situation in Maine. 

 I believe you have a law of some kind in this State. We have 

 none in New Hampshire. They passed one in Massachusetts 

 last session. There is nothing in Vermont, and in most of the 

 states in the Union there is no legislation on this matter. Now 

 it is just as important that, if we are going to spray and spend 

 lots of money, we have good chemicals, as it is that we have our 

 fertilizers analyzed that we put on the soil for furnishing nutri- 

 tion to the plant. I have had quite a little experience with some 

 of these insecticides. Recently lead arsenate has come into 

 great favor as an orchard spray and shade tree spray. It is 

 much superior to Paris green in many respects for some pur- 

 poses. Owing to the large demand for this product a good 

 many manufacturers have gone into making it and some of 

 them, I am sorry to say, have been making a very inferior arti- 

 cle. This last year almost all of the manufacturers have been 

 putting up fairly uniform goods because they were forced to 



