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used for that, whale oil soap suds; use oue pound for four gallons of 

 water. We have sprayed with that and got very good results and it pays 

 to do it at the right time, for after the leaf begins to curl it is almost 

 impossible to reach the insect. In the curled leaves you can not do it 

 with any spray; but if you take it in time, and use whale oil soap mix- 

 ture. I think you will succeed in keeping them down. 



President Hobbs: To those who are expex-ienced in spraying the peach 

 and plum with Paris green mixtures, I think they will stick to the orig- 

 inal formula of one-fourth of a pound to fifty gallons of water. There 

 is no question about the foliage of the peach and phim being very sensi- 

 tive to arsenical poisons, and I know when this was first recommended 



some years ago for the plum curculio, Mr. , of New York, 



an extensive flower grower, killed over one thousand bearing trees by 

 using a little over one-fourth of a pound, a very severe loss to him. 

 I do not think he has forgiven Mr. Cook yet, for it. Mr. Smith, I will 

 ask you the question: Has spraying paid you? 



Mr. Smith: I never received any benefit from my orchard mitil I 

 sprayed it, and I have got something off of it since. I got some fruit last 

 year, and I am going to get some this year; but I will say I have a neigh- 

 bor who has been spraying all summer, and he is not going to get any- 

 thing. 



President Hobbs: AVould you care to state why he will not get 

 anything? 



Mr. Smith: I do not know. Part of his orchard is on much lower 

 land than mine, but he has the same kind of trees set, and at just about 

 the same time as mine. I do not believe he has cultivated his orchard as 

 much as mine, although mine has not been cultivated much, in the last 

 two years; since the biggest limbs have become so low it is impossible 

 to get through. If you will pardon me just one suggestion that comes 

 to me at this time, concerning the heading of trees low. That may be all 

 right for peach trees; I judge it may be; and it may be all right for apple 

 trees, but I do not think so, if we are to take the modern methods of 

 cultivation of the orchard, for we will not be able to get under the trees. 

 Peach trees can be kept in and you can reach under them, but apple 

 trees are large trees. If I cultivate my orchard, I have to repeat what 

 I did a few years ago, cut off a large nuipber of large limbs. My experi- 

 ence has been with the apple and pear trees, they do not get higher, they 

 get lower. As they reach out, the limbs become heavy and the weight 

 of the limbs bring them lower and lower each year, and when you come 

 to putting a few bushels of apples on them they will come down to the 

 ground practically, and when the tree is full of fruit the limbs will drop 

 down until they lie on the ground. I have had limbs in my orchard lying 



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