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We think it is. However, we don't know, but all Missourians have to 

 be shown. * * * * j ^vould like to hear from the other side. The 

 testimony is not altogether with the successful side, although they 

 claim it is successful. 



Mr. Robnett. — I bought one of those dust sprayers and thought 

 I would kill the insects around my home, and filled my lungs with 

 Paris Green, and if any one wants that Liggett sprayer he can have it 

 at a ver}^ small price. I would go around the yard with it and it 

 looked to me when got on the other side of the tree, the wind got there 

 too. 



Mr. Baxter. — I don't want the impression to go out that the spray- 

 ing for .grape rot is an experiment, and I believe what is true of 

 grape rot is true of other things. We have been spraying in Illinois 

 for 12 years, ever since 1890, and we have demonstrated for a positive 

 fact that it is a success, and I will pay the expenses of any man who 

 will come up there and investigate the matter thoroughly if he don't 

 come back and say that the evidence is overwhelmingly in favor of 

 spraying as a thorough preventive, and I have no sprayers to sell. 



Mr. Jones. — I have not any sprayers to sell, nor am I interested 

 in any sprayers and speak only in regard to my own orchard, but I 

 do know this : I bought some trees from Missouri and they were in- 

 fested with Canker Worms, and those Canker Worms increased for two 

 years before we thought there were any Canker Worms to amount to 

 anything there. We then woke up to the fact that we must do some- 

 thing, and we began to do it at a lively rate with the water spray and 

 we cleaned those Canker Worms out. We could put the water right on 

 there with the poison in it, and we could count the worms by the 

 hundreds as they were dead, and we drove those canker worms out of 

 that orchard, off of about 200 acres of ground, and this year I never 

 saw a finer foliage on trees, and it staid on the trees until caught by 

 the frost just a few days ago. I know of orchards in Illinois which 

 this man from Quincy, Mr. Stahl, got for five dollars an acre; he was, 

 to have all the fruit for $5 an acre, and he went in there this S2ring 

 and has annihiliated the canker worm, that was the pest of that whole 

 country. And the orchards that he has treated — you can count the 

 square where an or^chard was that he sprayed. You can see it for 

 several miles in comparison with one that he has not sprayed. I 

 know it is good for Canker Worm, I know it is good for Codling Moth, 

 and a great many other things. 



A question : W'liat did he spray with ? 



He sprays with Paris Green chiefly in the liquid form. 



Mr. Howard. — I want to enter a plea against the dust spra}^ being 



