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half of it. I thoiio-lit before I got my men satif^fied, my tanks cleaned 

 out and my disposition cooled I would have nervous prostration, I 

 sold the remaining- five barrels to my neighbor and he had the same ex- 

 perience. 



A Member: Is there not another side to that (piestion? Isn't the 

 soluble sulphur easier to put on? With lime-sulphur you have to get 

 a good man that will go out and spray and get this lime-sulphur in his 

 face. 



Mr. Case: You will spray the tree — not the man. 



A Member: I think that the soluble sulphur does the work just as 

 well. 



Mr. White: I have a good many opportunities to know of ex- 

 periences with the Bordeaux paste and Bordeaux ]»owder, and you are 

 the only man in the whole state of Michigan that got any results at all. 



Mr. Munson : You cannot tell about the results on grapes ; you either 

 have the rot or you don't have the rot. 



A Member: There is a young fellow here who was in college last year 

 and made tests with several things as the basis of his thesis for gradu- 

 ation. 



Mr. Pickford : We used scalecide. We sprayed in the fall and the 

 spring both, and part of those we sprayed in the fall were sprayed in 

 the spring and part were not. We examined scale and found many of 

 them alive. Then we sprayed again and examined them with a miscro- 

 scope, and found that the soluble lime and sul]>hur was just as effective 

 for scale as lime-sulphur; it practically killed 100 per cent of the scale. 

 We made tests on green house plants for green aphis — every spring — 

 and it didn't kill aphis, but it is as well for scale as lime and sulphur or 

 home-made linje and sulphur. 



A Member: I would like to ask the young man that was talking how 

 soluble lime and sulphur results compared with the liquid for fungus. 



Mr. Pickford : We simply used it as a test with scalecide for aphis. 



FRUIT GROWING ON SAND BY A SANDY FARMER. 



W. D. BAGLEY, OLD MISSION. 



By the tenn sand, I mean the kind of soil characteristically described 

 by Prof. Smith, formerly director of our experiment station, who 

 described the soil of their station at Grayling, Mich., as "very sandy 

 sand." 



Sandy loam Avith a good heavy subsoil is about the best soil for all 

 kinds of crops, but the soil of which I speak has no subsoil any better 

 than that on top — in fact in improving such soil the best part of it is 

 always that on top. 



I want to say in the beginning of these remarks that the state and 

 national authorities are right in saying that such soil is non-agricultural; 

 they go even further than that, declaring that it is nothing less than 

 a crime to sell such land to a poor man with the expectation of making 

 a living on it. There is no excuse for any person locating on such land 

 except necessity. There are still thousands of acres of cut-over hard- 

 wood lands with good soil in Michigan for sale at moderate price, and 



