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Chairman Latta: And tlie so-t-allpd •rfniody"' in practit-c is really 

 inoculation? 



Prof. Trooji: The remedy in sneli rases is really inoculation. 



Mr. Fawcett: Then you ought to imt tlic ]irnniiifj shears in carholic 

 acid after cutting off a diseased ])art? 



Prof. Troop: Yes; disinfect the knife. 



Mr. Foley: I have a small orchard of Keiffers of seven or eight years 

 of age, and so far I have had no blight. I put them too thick, and last 

 year I thinned them down to three and foiu* prongs. 



Cliairman Latta: At what time did you cause this pruning to be done? 



Mr. Foley: 1 tliink it was some time in June. 



Chairman Latta: Have you had any blight in your section? 



Mr. Foley: But very little. I noticed one tree about half a mile away 

 fi-om my place that had some blight on it. 



Mr. Hobbs: You have no source of infection, then. 



Mr. Burton: I do not know whether I had better say anything or not, 

 but you know we sometimes find a great many things that seem very true, 

 and then the first thing we know they are not true. Last season I painted 

 an apple tree that was about ten feet tall, a Yellow Transparent, from the 

 topmost limb to the ground— gave it a thorough painting, to see if that 

 would kill the blight. It was very much affected by the blight the year 

 before, and. as I understand, the pear and apple blight are the same, 

 except that it is a little harder on the pear. I got an idea that, it being a 

 plant, it might be smothered out like a patch of briars. My experiment 

 was far-reaching in its effects. The apple and pear trees were blighted 

 severely the year before, and this one in particular, and this year I do not 

 knou' of a bliglited tree in five miles of my place. I painted one tree and 

 cleaned up the entire community. Whether I shall have to paint a tree 

 every spring or not. I don't know. This spring it broke out abundantly 

 everywhere. It Avas lying dormant a year and broke out afresh in a worse 

 way than ever. We may have to l)e careful about the remedies we use. 

 This thing of pear blight is important; but suppose. Brother Thomas, that 

 all of these tens of thousands of Keiffers had lived and borne fruit, what 

 would you do with it? They would have l)een an elephant on your 

 hands. I never have been able to sell a man over tAvo bushels of pears. 

 If I go to see them about it they say": "Oh, we got ours a month ago— we 

 got all we wanted. We got two bushels and paid a dollar a bushel for 

 them." If I say. "You can have them for fifty cents a bushels." he will 

 say, "Wo have got all the pears avc want," and if I would say fifteen cents 



