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nia}' be some other new things that will come up and some of them will 

 be all right. I think where we fell down we put in arsenate of lead 

 when we ought to put in some lime. 



Member: Mr. Taft has a formula of using glue foi- biown rot. It will 

 ]irove out one of the most excellent fornuilae for biown rot. I think 

 we ought to carry it out. If I put in arsenate of lead I will put in lime. 

 Maybe we could hear from Mr. Taft. 



Mr. Taft: As for its noted imjiortance glue has been used for years in 

 New York and I have been successful in controlling brown rot. The 

 quantity used was very small that it could not do any harm. We did 

 not use arsenate of lead. Sulphur wet thoroughly with a solution of 

 glue then diluted so that we got about four pounds of sulj^hur to 50 

 gallons of water. The material was used for experiments on brown rot. 

 Substitute for it is boiled lime sulphur. That, of course, is more effective 

 but it is difficult to prepare without danger of burning. Regarding the 

 boiled sulphur, I was in Chicago a month ago where they had men from 

 all over the country. We discussed the result of lime sulphur and they 

 all agreed we had good success when you had a low temperature and 

 very much moisture especially if you had open heads to allow the air 

 to pass through and dry out the trees but they all agreed that in wet 

 seasons that you could not control the brown rot. 



Question: I would like to ask how much glue they used? 



Mr. Taft: The formula I gave was to dissolve one ounce of glue in 

 a gallon of water and mix in with that four pounds of sulphur until you 

 have a thick paste and then at that add 50 gallons of water. 



Ml'. Barron: I have taken up 20 minutes now and as I do not know 

 anything about the glue business I will give the rest of the time to Mr. 

 Slatei' from Millburg. Thank you. 



(Applause) 



Mr. Slater: When I received the notice from Mr. Farrand stating 

 that m}' name was on the program I told my wife that I would be like 

 the darky who was passing the cemetery one night very late and a moon- 

 light night. He was looking back over his shoulchns all of the time. He 

 noticed a ghost walking along side of him. Mr. Darky didn't stop to 

 ask any questions, he simply started to run as fast as he could. Finally 

 he dropped down on a log to recover and pretty quick the ghost caught 

 up with him, set down side of him and said, "Rastus you surely can run." 

 Rastus, "And just as soon as I can get my breath I am going to run 

 some more." I may start to run before I get through. 



(Laughter) 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: I have been asked by your 

 Secretary, Mr. Farrand, to discuss the topic of Exchange Managers 

 Problems and their relation to Fruit Production, and when I state that 

 the past season was my first experience as an Exchange Manager you 

 will agree with me that it is rather difficidt question to talk upon, es- 

 pecially so as we have with us today men wdio have long been very suc- 

 cessful as managers and are therefore more able to talk on this question 

 than I am. The past season was the worst in the history of ^lichigan 

 in a great many ways in so far as the farmer was concerned and all of 

 our Associations worked more than to capacity during the entire season. 

 Our greatest problem was the more than ]KK)r transportation facilities 

 which we were compelled to put up with, during not only part, but the 



