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in the winter and kill the spores in our orchards, and save the fruit 

 from scabbing in the summer time. I believe the blacli rot can be killed 

 by spraying in the Avinter time. I believe that the pores of the fungus 

 that causes scab which appears on the apple can be to a great degree 

 fought in the Avinter time. Is this not true? 



Mr. Van Deman: Well, I suppose that question is directed to me. I 

 will say, Mr. Chairman, that I do not profess to be an expert on fungous 

 diseases. We have a gentleman from Michigan who can better answer 

 that. There is a great deal that can be done to kill spores. When you 

 kill the spores you cut off a large part of the trouble by nipping it in the 

 bud. 



Prof. Latta: I suppose this will come up in tomorrow's program. 

 It is one of the conditions of success. That is sutficient for this time. Are 

 tliere any more questions? 



Prof. W. P. Hedrick: In talking with other people and with older 

 people they almost invariably tell us that if conditions were as they used 

 to be they would be glad to plant fruit trees, but now conditions have 

 changed, and that it doesn't pay as it used to. I feel sure that some in 

 this audience may feel the same way. I should like to have Mr. \'an 

 Deman to answer this question. Have conditions changed and how can 

 we meet the changed conditions? 



Mr. DeVilbiss: I do not think that conditions have changed. It 

 seems to nie that we can grow better fruit than we ever could. Too 

 many are like the man that says he hasn't time to plant strawberries. 

 He has the time but he won't do it. He ought to do it. When a man says 

 he hasn't time he tells what is not true. There was a man came to my 

 house one day while I was planting out my strawberry patch. This man 

 never raised any strawberries, and I don't believe he ever bought any. 

 He talked and talked away to me, and tinally I asked him why he didn't 

 raise a patch of his own, and he replied that he didn't have time to plant 

 any. I in a jokingly sort of way told him that wasn't true for he had 

 talked to me long enough to have a patch of berries planted, and had 

 bothered me in the bargain. He admitted that he believed that was true, 

 and started off home to plant a patch. We must urge it on these people. 



Rev. W. H. Talbert, Albion, Ind.: I dislike very much to differ with 

 these people here who have had so much experience, but I fear I will 

 have to. It has been about sixty-two years since I was a boy. I go 

 back to my father's liomo to the old trees that were bending with fruit. 

 and realize that many conditions have changed since then. There were 

 then no such things as these pests that destroy the fruit now. I can not 

 renu'uibor of any sucli a thing. Our apples were perfect. I used to take 

 an apple or two with me and keep them under the covers and eat them 



