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Prof. Latta: We still have some time for questions. Is it practical 

 for the farmer who grows fruits for family use — for the use of his family- 

 only— to employ methods that will insure high class fruit free from 

 blights, or is that only practical with the commercial fruit gTower? 



Mr. Van Deman: I say that it is. Anything that is worth doing at 

 all is worth doing right, and there is no use leaving all methods of 

 fruit culture to the commercial grower. He can have the appliances 

 and use them just as cheaply in proportion as the commercial man can. 

 Certainly he can, just as easy as a man can use a big machine to spray 

 a hundred acres. 



Prof. Latta: Is that important? 



Mr. "Van Deman: Yes, it is certainly. The person who does not make 

 use of the modern methods of fruit culture might just as well quit, or 

 he had better never begin. If he sits down and folds his hands idly 

 the worms will spoil his fruit. It is entirely practical to use the modern 

 spraying apparatus it you are spraying for the family, and one can do 

 it just as intelligently as the man who does it for the dollars and cents 

 that are in it. I say "yes." 



Prof. F. Roth, Ann Arbor, Michigan: We have been talking mostly 

 about the commercial side of the marl^et. Now two-thirds of the people 

 of the United States are farmers, and I have wondered why they don't 

 do something for themselves. Why shouldn't we provide for the feeding 

 of the two-thirds (the farmers^ and let the other one-third take care of 

 themselves? Here is a question I wouhl like to ask. Isn't it possible 

 to select such fruit, and to carry on fruit culture in such a simple way 

 that even the farmer with very small means, and with a small amount of 

 intelligence can get along and still do considerably better than he is doing 

 at the present time? 



Mr. Van Deman: He certainly could. He can economize in time by 

 a little thought. A simple idea followed out will save much time and 

 worry, and that is to plant all of your vegetables and fruit plants in 

 straight, long rows so that they can be cultivated by a horse. If you do 

 not have enough ot one kind to make a row, plant several different 

 kinds in a row. This hoe gardening is a nuisance. Plant your things in 

 straight rows and cultivate them with a horse. Plow your strawberries 

 the same as anything else. Plant your garden the same as a cornfield, 

 and attend it with a plow and double cultivator. 



Mr. DeVilbiss: I have one question that I would like to ask. A 

 farmer has much leisure time in the winter, but not much time in the 

 summer. I have had experience in the last two or three years, and it 

 seems to me that the time is not far distant when we should spray more 



