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do not use but little lime and sulphur on pears, especially the Duchess ; 

 we went right back to Bordeaux mixture on sour cherries. 



Mr. Farnsworth : In Ohio where thev have a different climate and 

 they are subject to fungus on apples, we got better results with 

 Bordeaux for this fungus, but we have been using lime and sulphur also 

 for the third season and we saw no rusted fruit, and we like it much 

 better than the Bordeaux. We found it almost impossible to spray 

 with Bordeaux without getting rust. 



Mr. O. K, White: On apples, pears, cherries and plums I have been 

 making comparative tests with lime and sulphur one to 40, and testing 

 32 to 33, and with Bordeaux Mixture 44 to 50, for the past two sea- 

 sons. As far as effectiveness is concerned, I would not give a snap of 

 my fingers for it for fungus diseases. In many cases lime sulphur has 

 been superior to Bordeaux on Snows. 



Mr. Rogers : I used Bordeaux this year for the spraying after the 

 blossoms fall and just as the buds were beginning to swell, and had 

 a little rust on the Wagners, but that is the only variety. The only 

 objection I find to Bordeaux is that ^-ou cannot use it with the nicotine; 

 it has some detrimental effect with the Bordeaux Mixture. It can be 

 used with perfect success in the mixture of lime and sulphur. 



Mr. Munson : Why are you using nicotine? 



Mr. Rogers : For aphis. 



Mr. Gray: What is the effect on sweet cherries with lime and 

 sulphur? 



Mr. Case : We are fully convinced we hurt our sweet cherries quite 

 seriously in 1910. They did not develop any fungus disease and the 

 only solution we could find was that the cherries were injured by this 

 lime and sulphur. It just effected the fruit — not the foliage. 



In the first place we put a spray on just after the bloom drops; we 

 add arsenate of lead, about three pounds, or blue vitrol — 2 pounds, to 

 a gallon or two gallons of water, and after the cherries get started we 

 put on another spray. Ji we have quite a lot of wet weather we put 

 it on two to fifty gallons of water so as not to spot the cherries. 



Mr. Munson : I think Mr. Paul Rose sprayed his cherries up to nearly 

 the time of ripening with Bordeaux, and they kept a long time without 

 rot. 



Mr. Rogers : Nine years ago I did my first work for Paul Rose, and 

 that was the first year he sprayed these cherries for brown rot. Before 

 that he had a great deal of trouble with the ten pound boxes rotting 

 before they got to market, and lots of times before they left the farm. 

 He sprayed that year with Bordeaux mixture, and the commission men 

 put in a slight objection because some of the cherries were spotted. 

 That was the beginning of the season, but that same commission firm 

 later wrote him that those spots were just what he wanted to see — 

 that the cherries were keeping nicely and he could afford to spray them. 



Mr. Case: I would like to ask if there is anyone here who has found 

 a mulberry that will ripen at the same time as the Black Tartarian 

 cherry, for the birds to feed on. 



A Member: How about a raspberry? 



Mr. Case: They will not leave the cherries for that. They like the 

 Black Tartarian, and I would like to find a mulberry that will ripen 

 with them. They all ripen when the Black Tartarians are half gone and 



