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We have found that the lime-sulphur soluHon, and the arsenate 

 of lead, will do all the necessary work, and you know, my friends, 

 what a blessing- it will be to horticulture to know withovU a doubt 

 that the concentrated lime-sulphui- and arsenate of lead is all that 

 is necessary for a summer and a winter spray. 1 think the time is 

 close at hand when we can say that the lime-sulphur and arsenate 

 of lead will control all of the pesls for which we have had to spray. 

 This subject comes up later in the afternoon for further discussion, 

 and 1 shall not further speak of it now. 



In a few minutes there will be bnmglit Into this room, a map 

 showing where the demonstration work has been carried on. The 

 demand for demonstrations was such that Ave could not attend to it 

 except in about one case out of a dozen. Then we arranged the 

 Supervision Orchard Plan. We went to the orchard, met the owner, 

 looked at the trees, pruned some and showed him how to make the 

 concentrated lime-sulphur solution and apply it, prescribed treat- 

 ment for the coming year and then left the work with him, helping 

 him by correspondence as at all times with all persims who request 

 services by correspondence. We find, uoav, however, that we cannot 

 even get to these super^dsion orchards without dozens of people 

 coming Avhen they know the demonstrator is going to be there. We 

 find no difficulty in getting an audience now, at any time or any- 

 where; often they number five or six hundred. I have a letter from 

 a lawyer at Scranton, in which he says that wdien the demonstrator 

 came there to supervise the spraying of his orchard, the weather 

 was so bad that they only went out and looked the orchard over, 

 and then came back to his greenhouse, where there were sixteen 

 persons gathered to take instruction. 



We find this getting into personal contact with the grower and 

 showing him his needs, and the needs of each individual tree in his 

 orchard — for each tree has an individuality of its own, just as every 

 cow, or horse, or man has — is the best means of obtaining good 

 results. It is hardly worth while for me to stand before you and 

 tell you what results we are having, or ijou are having, because you 

 are the people who get the results. I can point you to a dozen peo- 

 ple in this audience who are getting better results this year, by 

 these methods, than they ever saw before, on the same trees, but 

 our cry is not so much "more fruit" as "better fruit." 



The rush for tree planting has already passed beyond the experi- 

 mental stage. One of our largest nurserymen told me recently that 

 he had sold more nursery stock in Pennsylvania the past year than 

 in any other state in the Union, and is seems to be the opinion 

 of our nurserymen that this tree planting is increasing very rapidly. 

 You ask, "what will be the result?" It will be a great deal of very 

 good fruit, and a great deal of very poor fruit. There are still 

 many people who imagine they can start an orchard, buy a tree 

 and put it in the ground, leave it there without attention, and then 

 get good results. Any man who does this wdll fail. He must be 

 there on the spot, and he must knoAV his trees and his subject. If 

 he does not, he will fail, and he had better stop at once, before going 

 into any extensive planting, which would mean greater losses. 



In this same building, there is a general agricultural meeting now 

 going on, at Avliich the attendance is about one quarter what it 

 is here. At the same time, stop and compare the profits you re- 



