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scabs what effect would it have on an orchard that is sprayed and what 

 distance? 



Mr. O. K. White: I could not say definitely along that line, but my 

 idea has been that there is not a great deal of danger of a neighbor's 

 scale affecting your orchard. The wind might carry it, but I don't be- 

 lieve it is any where near as bad as the sparrows carrying scale. 



Mr. Bassett : About the neighbor not spraying his orchard, there is 

 a difference of opinion on that. A couple of men came to me, or three 

 of them, in our neighborhood who were thorough sprayers, good men 

 in every way, but in the division of the orchards, riglit over the fence, 

 there w^ere some trees infested by scale, bought by a city man. He buys 

 a solution and an outfit and sets a single man to squirting around the 

 orchard, I would not call it spraying, and he thinks he is living up to 

 the law. My neighbor is a great grower. He had taken a great deal 

 of pains to produce a fine crop of Greenings, and at the last end of that 

 season when he thought he had a fine crop, there comes this scale from 

 his neighbor's orchard and spots his orchard so his apples were very 

 unsalable. Now the law says that his neighbor must spray or destroy 

 his trees. Now, he thinks he has sprayed but he did not do a good job. 

 He was told by the real estate man that he could clean up that orchard 

 for fifteen dollars. Down there our real estate men sometimes make 

 mistakes, and some people get mixed as a result. I know the commis- 

 sioners should take care of this, but it is a serious problem Avhen a man 

 has spent thousands of dollars on an orchard and then has it infected 

 by his neighbor's infected orchard. Now can we enforce that law or 

 are we helpless. Tlie laAV says a man should thoroughly spray — I am 

 not positive about that "thoroughly" but he should spray. Because he 

 attempts it and has the solution thrown in the air does not absolve him 

 from liability, and I think he is liable for damage. I am not smart 

 enough to answer the question, but perhaps Mr. Smythe can solve it. 



Mr. Smythe : When Mr. Bassett asked me to talk on the laws I read up 

 the laws on yellows in peaches and the scale, and the law is very weak. 

 I think our fruit laws are all very weak. We get good enough laws but 

 we are handicapped. In regard to the scale and the yellows in peaches, 

 the toAvnship board appoints a man to go around and inspect these trees, 

 and they give him the large sum of |2.00 per day for this work. Now 

 there is no man that is willing to go around through the orchards of his 

 neighbors and create enemies by enforcing this law for |2.00 per day. 

 I think the laws are very definite but they don't go far enough. It is 

 the same with the neAV package law and the new marking law. There 

 is nothing behind it. I think that is where the knvs are lame; we have 

 them, but no one to enforce them. 



