302 BOARD OF AGBilCULTliREi 



mcint of one steatn spraj'^er, tile first one tbat evet came Into the State 

 of Ohio, the fit-st I ever saw, and the first one that was ever used in 

 the State. We have four large tanks, holding 300 gallons of mixture, and 

 with these we use Morley*s sprayer and as much as four lines of hose. 

 BverJ^ one is adapted to two lines, but with the steam sprayer we can 

 not get into the most difficult places in the city. We have had to treat 

 a section of about three miles square in Cincinnati, among the best resi- 

 dence portions of the city, and it Avould not do to go on those grounds with 

 a team when the soil is the least bit soft, and we had to contrive some 

 way of treating those premises without getting on the grounds them- 

 selves, and some of those gi-ounds are pretty extensive. So we set the 

 steamer either at the driveway or at the curb, and then attached one 

 line of hose. It may run back a hundred or two hundred feet. Ordinarily 

 we have a pressure of one hundred pounds to a square inch. When we 

 get back in those lots sometimes we find there is a jungle that the people 

 going along the street will not see, and we have to have enough hose to 

 use, with the steamer at the curb, going around among those trees and 

 shrubs, treating them and with our facilities we can treat the highest trees 

 we have been called upon to treat. 



President Hobbs: How do you treat the very high ones? 



We can use our extension rods, and we can reach up over twenty 

 feet. The boys sometimes climb up like sqtiirrels and go up to the top. 

 We have some extension ladders we use in reaching the upper portions of 

 the trees, but if the boys can climb up more readily, they do so. We do 

 not attempt to reach the higher trees from the ground. So much for the 

 treatment of the trees, orchards, premises, parks, cemeteries— we have it 

 all to do. 



Now for the treatment of the nursery stock that has to be grown in 

 close proximity with an orchard or orchards that are badly infested: We 

 have some rather queer experiences in attempting to protect the nursery- 

 men from what they are in no way to blame for. Some of them are not 

 wholly without blame, because some of them are very careless. I might, 

 in some cases, change the word careless to some other one, but there are 

 others who are honestly doing the very best they can to keep tlieir prem- 

 ises clear of anything of that sort; but over the fence, across the way, 

 across the road or street, is an orchard t'liat is infested with the scale. 

 The nurseryman can not reach the man, but we can. We can manage 

 the orchard, if the individual can not or will not take care of it; but 

 how about the nurseryman who has been endangered from it? Sometimes 

 in going through a nursery I find occasionally a tree that has been in- 

 fested from the orchard, we know very well. We could not condemn that 

 man's business and wreclt him on any such basis as that; we must have 

 some better reason for it; and I am going to tell you how we manage those 

 things. In every case where we find one or two trees, and where we find 



