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have to stop it, or those men will have to go out of business. If wd 

 can not check it so it will not spread any more, they will have to move 

 or go out of business; if we can check it, we will protect their property. 

 All I am expecting to do with what we have got, is to get it under con- 

 trol, and if the State will give us money to keep it there, well and 

 good. I have been working this very hard. If I do not get anything more 

 in the way of an appropriation at all, we will have received enough out 

 of this in the way of spraying experiments, and what we are now learn- 

 ing in the way of methods and machinery, to have made it a profitable 

 investment. The nurserymen and fruit gowers may not have $15,000 

 worth of information, but they will have a great deal more than they 

 had when we began. I think we shall be able to tell them enough that 

 they will save not only $15,000, but a great deal more. 



Professor Troop: As to the professional sprayer, isn't there the same 

 danger here that Ave have in the professional tree pruner in. our cities 

 under the present conditions'? 



Professor Webster: We have no professionals now, that I know; of. 

 My- idea is this: You will have a class down at Purdue to drill in spray- 

 ing, careful spraying, and the mixing of tlie ingredients and the applica- 

 tion of it by machinery, and the machinery and everything connected 

 with spraying. You and Professor Goff Avill have that in less than ten 

 years. 



Professor Troop: We have now. 



Professor Webster: AVhen they go out from that university, their 

 diploma will show that they are competent to do just that kind of work. 

 I do not know whether it will come up in the form of a license or not, 

 as in the manner of stationary engineers in the State of Ohio; it may, 

 or it may come up in the way of a diploma, but we are getting to that 

 point, and sooner or later we can debar a man from doing any business 

 in spraying. Unless he is competent to do it. 



Professor Goff: But recently it has been advocated in some agricul- 

 tural papers that a man in every township take up the matter of spray- 

 ing in the township, but there is the very danger we have been talking 

 about, unless he is a trained man. 



Professor Webster: We will hasten the time when a man must 

 show he is capable of doing what he pretends to do. 



Mr. McMillan: What do you do toward protecting the body of the 

 tree? Do you do anything toward protecting the body of the tree, and 

 the roots from disease? 



Professor Webster: I do not know that I catch your meaning; pro- 

 tect them from what? 



