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Spraying will apply just exactly as well in your apple orchard as it will 

 elsewhere. 



There is one point I have seen agitated much. We spray apple tree 

 limbs, but how about the trunk, and how about the grass and leaves 

 underneath? It looks as though we have been leaving out one of the most 

 important points, where we simply spray the tree and let everything be- 

 neath it go. Now, it seems as though the better way is when we finish 

 the tree to give the whole area underneath a pretty careful spraying and 

 finish the job up In good shape. 



President Hobbs: How do you apply the spray? How does the man 

 hold the nozzle? Where does he begin and where does he wind up? Does 

 he spray from underneath, on top, or how does he do it? 



Professor W^ebster: We spray both from underneath and on top, or 

 from . above. All our nozzles are attached to extension rods, and we 

 start at "some particular point on the tree, and go over both the under 

 and upper side, until we get around to where we were when we began. 

 I do not know whether you do it here or not. They have a way in Ohio 

 of spraying one side of a tree when the wind blows from that way, and 

 spraying the other side when the wind blows from the other way, 

 but in the meantime the dividing line gets badly obliterated; some of 

 the limbs get a double dose and others none at all. It is a very bad 

 practice. 



Pi-esident Hobbs: How do you do if the wind does not change at all. 



Professor Webster: Some are waiting yet for a change of the wind. 

 In the meantime, we must finisli the job for the protection of the neigh- 

 bors. If I have overloolvcd anything I wish you would call my attention 

 to it; and also feel at liberty to ask all the questions you desire and I 

 will answer them if I can. 



President Hobbs: You saj' your State appropriated $1.5,000 for the 

 extermination of the San Jose Scale; I wish you would tell whether the 

 State has got its money's worth? 



Professor Webster: If it has not, it has not been our fault. 



President Hobbs: The point is this: I wish to know whether you 

 are hoping to be able to, or whether you expect to exterminate the scale, 

 or what the practical results are? 



Pi'Ofessor Webster: The time has gone by when we can exterminate 

 the scale in this country. The time was when it could have been dohe, 

 but hat time has long since gone by. The most we can do now Is to 

 keep it down. I can illustrate that very nicely: We have some nurseries 

 in the State with that scale creeping up nearer and nearer every year. We 



