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containing all the laboratories needed in the several phases of Horti- 

 cultural investifration. 



Chairman: We want a great big Horticultural Laboratory. We are 

 all in favor of that. We will take the appropriation down to the Legis- 

 lature that we want and if we put it down as low as we can get it we 

 may stand a chance of getting the appropriation. 



Question: Did the follows here at the College ever try using just a 

 little lime sulphur with the peach spray? 



Chairman: I have never used any poison in the peach spray yet. 



Question: Do you have any trouble with peaches rotting. 



Mr. Dutton. We never got any results on peaches about Grand 

 Rapids. We did until the brown rot came and we got no results from 

 our Experimental work. We got results on other things but peaches 

 did not pay. 



Air. Farrand : Can you tell them about the brown rot in other States? 



Prof Halligan: In Georgia they have had good results in controlling 

 the brown rot. The use of lime sulphur, eight pounds of lime, eight 

 pounds of sulphur to 50 gallons of water. 



Question : How do you account for their peaches all rotting this year? 

 I see by the reports in Georgia that the peach growers are very much 

 exercised over the results of this year. I thought you might have some 

 definite information as to what they did. They have proved this, that 

 the boiled hme and sulphur was a success but there has been a great deal 

 of dusting on these orchard in Georgia. I wonder if it would not have 

 been better if they had left off the boiled lime and sulphur and used just 

 the dust. 



Prof. Halligan : They are not doing anything. 



Mr. Crane: They harvest their crop of peaches in Georgia in the rain 

 and the}' hardh^ ever deliver a car load of peaches in good order. They 

 rot down with the brown rot. Whether we got the germs of brown rot 

 by using cars that they used by not fumigating those cars or it may have 

 come from some other source. We did not have the brown rot in our 

 orchards as we have it now unless it was in the North. I would like to 

 get some definite information to just what they have gone through 

 that has brought such results as this year. 



Prof. Halligan: They don't have the brown rot year after year. 

 They will spray for a j-ear or two and give it up. As far as your propo- 

 sition is concerned your peaches might be covered with brown rot when 

 they left the farm but they have not developed it. If you go into rail- 

 road 3'ards you will find lots of carloads of peaches and fruit that have 

 diseases of this sort in transit. A car of peaches can stand around for a 

 week and not develop brown rot. You must have brown rot in your 

 orchard. 



Now the men of the Exchanges seem to have trouble once in a while. 

 As Mr. Kelder is not here, Mr. Barron of Fennville will take up tliis 

 subject. 



Mr. Barron: Mr. President, we are supposed to have a discussion of 

 Exchange problems in relation to production. I believe by the program 

 Mr. Kelder should have talked first. Mr. Kelder sta3^ed at home. He 

 showed good judgment. 



To start off with I would like to get this into a form of discussion. I 

 want to know how many market tlu'ougli fi-uit Exchanges? We have got 



