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be moved to any place most convenient to the field of opera- 

 tions or where water for the spray mixtures may be obtained. 

 This outfit gives the owner excellent satisfaction. It does the 

 work well and easily. So far as I know, no apparatus of this 

 kind has yet been put upon the market by any manufacturing 

 concern. Tlie owner has purchased the various parts and 

 constructed the apparatus himself. This device is doubtless 

 the forerunner of a new type of spraying apparatus for orchard 

 use, in which compressed air tanks will supply spray pumps. 

 The idea of using compressed air for spraying is not new. 

 Some years ago, apparatus for vineyard use was put upon 

 the market in France, but the machine which has been de- 

 scribed above is the first compressed air sprayer which I have 

 seen constructed in America for orchard use. It will com- 

 mend itself to the commercial orchardist because it does away 

 with the labor of working a spray pump. 



Secretary Brown. Prof. Beach alluded to me in stating 

 why he is here today. This program was not formed by acci- 

 dent. I was in pursuit of the best man I could find, whether 

 he was on this side of the water or the other side, to address 

 this convention. I consulted all the scientific journals and 

 the agricultural bulletins, and every other paper that I could 

 get at, and I found in the London Royal Horticultural Jour- 

 nal an article that at once commanded my attention. I found 

 that the author was Prof. S. A. Beach, whom you have just 

 been listening to, and I secured him for this convention. 

 This is my side of the contract to w^hich he referred in his 

 opening. To supplement this lecture. Prof. Britton, the State 

 Entomologist, will this evening give you a lecture upon a 

 related or supplemental subject. 



The President. We shall not have any time to devote to 

 questions at this morning session. There wnll be opportunity 

 later to question Prof. Beach, and also Prof. Stimson. 



Convention adjourned to 2 p. m. 



