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lost money from lack of market due to the ignorance of other growers 

 who offered their product below what the market woukl justify. Natur- 

 ally the buyer wants tlie fruit as low as he can get it. I have 

 been a buyer and know. In New York and more pronounced in the north- 

 west the growers are better organized. Some seasons the buj^er or his 

 representative camps down in a liochester hotel for six weelvs without 

 making a purchase because he cannot break through the guard of the 

 apple grower wlio is constantly in close touch with his neighbor on the 

 apple situation. When one well posted grower sells the other fol- 

 lows suit and sometimes within a week the better part of the crop 

 changes hands. This is due to the organization and interchange of 

 ideas among the growers. In the northwest sales are usually made 

 through a central organization who handles that part of the business. 

 In this way the growers are not competing against each other but 

 through one common agent they transact their business. In the middle 

 west we lack that organiation. We should have some system of getting 

 together and this it is proposed shall be done by the growers of the 

 middle west meeting in St. Louis before the crop is harvested and talk- 

 ing over the crops and the markets. A committee has already been 

 named to issue a call for such a meeting and it should pay every apple 

 grower to attend. This call will be issued in time. 



Apple growing in the middle west can be at its prime if right methods 

 are followed in a very short time. This season has been a good adver- 

 tisement and followed by increased efforts to grow and pack a high 

 quality of fruit will increase the popularity of the middle west ai)ples 



in markets of the world so auspiciously begun. , 

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DISCUSSION. 



Qustion: Have you tried any dust spray? 



Answer: Yes, when spraying came first 1 tried dust spraying, but 

 after giving it a thorough trial, I was satisfied that it was not as prac- 

 tical as had been represented to me, and I came to the conclusion that 

 it was a waste of time to spend very much time with it. We had the 

 experiment station and conducted some experiments along side of the 

 liquid spray and the result was in favor of the liquid spray, so that 

 after that we did not waste our time with dust sprays. In Missouri 

 they contend that dust syraying is the tiling, especially those who are 

 interested in the machine for putting it on. I have had some of them 

 say to me, "Why, you don't give us a chance — you don't allow us to 

 convince you." I reply that "The test of the i)udding is the eating 

 thereof," and Ave have tried out both the licpiid and the dust spray 

 to the point where we are satisfied that the liquid spray is much the 

 better; and inasmuch as the test is in the results you get, and as the 

 results that we got were veiy much more satisfactory from the liquid 

 than from the dust spray, Ave just let the matter dro}), and have not 

 used the dust spray at all. HoAA^ever, I am frank to say that I do not 

 feel that I am in a position to speak authoritatively on the subject, 

 any farther than my oAvn experience goes, but to that extent, I would 

 simply say that the dust spray is not to be (•ompare<l Avith the liquid 

 spray, if you Avaut to get results iu comkiting with this disease. 



