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thorough work in spraying, although T don't think it was as thorough 

 as it should have been, we had fine apples. I believe in the applica- 

 tion of the spray in some form, after you find it necessary to apply 

 even four applications. It was very dry and everything seemed to 

 be going wrong and the fruit was at a stand still, no indications of 

 anything better ; the water was hard to get and we didn't do any more 

 spraying with the liquid formula, and very little of the dust. I think 

 to have overcome the last crop of Codling Moth, cu.tr results would 

 have been much more satisfactory had we applied the spray once or 

 twice more. As it was the results were very marked, as the orchards 

 yielded probably three-fourths of fruit, free from the Codling Moth. 

 There was no scab whatever, and other insects besides the Codling 

 Moth were not present to any degree. 



President Murray. — Will you give your formulas of what you 

 sprayed with? 



Mr. Speakman. — Our first application was blue stone solution, 

 three pounds of blue stone to fifty gallons of water, applied on the 

 trees before the leaves appeared and before the bud swells, thoroughly, 

 and the other applications were about four pounds each of lime and 

 blue stone and a third of a pound of Paris Green and fifty gallons of 

 water. I have found no injury as the result of the application of 

 Paris Green, applied and used at that strength, or that amount. I 

 think that one of the most important things for us fruit growers to 

 do is to secure a guarantee of the strength of the poisons that we see 

 fit to use. I think blue stone is probably about the same wherever we 

 find it, but all poisons, the arsenics, Paris Green or white arsenic 

 or whatever we may use are not of a guaranteed strength. We need 

 a brand that can be depended upon to do certain things. If it is 

 weak let us know it, and if it is strong let us know that. 



Mr. Smith. — I would like to ask a question of the gentleman, or 

 any one may answer it. Up in our part of the country a part of my 

 orchard I sprayed once, a part of it I didn't spray at all, and I didn't 

 see two square inches of scab in about four hundred barrels. Now 

 I am wondering whether we are not arriving at some conclusions 

 without sufficient evidence. Again, in the same orchard I didn't find 

 on an average of one Codling Moth in a barrel of apples without any 

 spraying at all in one orchard and with one spraying for Canker Worm 

 in the other. Now is it not a fact that in these years we are pretty 

 clear of scab and Codling Moth, spray or no spray? I believe in 

 spraying, but I want to know just exactly what we are doing. 



Mr. Speakman. — Well, concerning your scab, I would say there 

 was very little of that with us, in either sprayed or unsprayed orchards 



