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Mr. Sanders: We use it too strong. We used last spring 

 about 1-25, 1-30 ordinary commercial lime sulphur, and found 

 it was too strong. We used lime sulphur too strong right 

 straight through the season last year and did a lot of damage 

 with our spraying material, and I do not know whether that is 

 going to continue or not. We are recommending for this next 

 season not more than 1-30, 1-35 for pink bud spray, and weaker 

 for the later sprays. That is one of the things that varies with 

 the locality, the strength that you can use lime sulphur. You 

 might be able to use one strength in Maine and we could not 

 use as strong as that in Nova Scotia. I would be afraid to 

 recommend anything very definite. Be careful not to use it 

 too strong, but how strong you can use it T would not like to 

 say. 



RESULTS FROM APPLE SPRAYING EXPERIMENTS 

 AT HIGHMOOR FARM. 



W. J. Morse. 



The department of plant pathology of the Maine Agricultural 

 Experiment Station is making a special study of apple dis- 

 eases. Highmoor Farm has greatly added to the facilities for 

 carrying on this work. Several bulletins or reports of progress 

 have appeared and in one of these, Bulletin 185, an attempt was 

 made to cover in a fairly comprehensive manner what we had 

 learned up to that time regarding the various apple diseases 

 which occur in the state. The edition was soon exhausted and 

 it is now, after five years, somewhat out of date. A revision 

 of this publication will probably be made in the near future 

 which will include in condensed form the more important re- 

 sults of recent studies and observations. 



The Pomological Society was largely instrumental in bring- 

 ing about the purchase of the farm by the state for the use of 

 the station and has always shown a very lively interest in what 

 is going on there. From a practical standpoint the members of 

 the society are doubtless more deeply interested in the spraying 

 experiments which have been carried on each year, from the 

 first, than in any other line of pathological work which is being 

 conducted at Highmoor. No report of the progress of this 



