128 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



A pressure of 125 lbs. makes a good spray but 155 to 200 makes a 

 very much better one. 



Plenty of force to go through the trees and a fine spray to cover all 

 the surface is what is required at this time and I have found this best 

 obtained in a combination of nozzles, such as one of the friend type and 

 a long distance or cala nozzles on a large "Y" using the middle sized 

 holes in the slide of the cala nozzle. 



For this spraying Bordeaux or lime sulphur is used arsenate of lead. 

 It is well to make another spraying with the same thing in about two 

 weeks, and the late pears should be sprayed for moth the last of July. 



I find thinning is a very good way to make more No. 1 and less No. 

 2 and makes a yearly crop more sure. 



You won't have much blight if j^ou have grown your trees carefully 

 and not allowed them to over bear and grow too much in one season. 

 When it does appear, "Cut it out and forget it." Don't be afraid to put 

 plenty of stable manure on heavily bearing pear trees they will take 

 care of it and give you good returns. 



Bearing pears do as well or even better under the mulch system than 

 under cultivation, when the mulch method is thoroughly and system- 

 atically carried out. 



When you have raised a fine lot of pears don't sell them to the first 

 buyer. There is a good market for good pears and you can find it if 

 you look, I prefer to sell to the local buyer, when I get an honest price, 

 as a general rule I try to avoid the large markets especially in a year 

 of abundant crops. 



As to varieties Clapp's Favorite, Bartlett, Howell, Bose, and Kieffers 

 make a very good combination. 



Judging from what I have been able to gather and observe the setting 

 of pear trees has not kept pace with other kinds of fruit trees especially 

 the peach and apple, and in some of the older pear centers the industry 

 has been very much decreased by the ravages of blight and other causes. 



So to those who have the proper soil and are willing to give it its re- 

 quired care, the pear offers as bright or even a brighter future than 

 many other kinds of fruit. 



DISCUSSION. 



A Member— I set out some Kieffer pears and they started in good 

 shape, and all at once the blight came in and killed the trees. Is that 

 regular blight? Or was it some fault of the setting? 



Mr. Chatfield — It is very seldom that Kieffer pears blight at that age. 

 I have seen it on Kieffer pear trees at a later date, when they were 

 older. Perhaps they did not have moisture enough, may be dried out. 



The Member — They started all right. 



Mr. Chatfield — ^If the ground was quite stiff clay, and was not well 

 cultivated, it would be pretty apt to be lack of moisture. 



Mr. Eowe^ — I Avould like to know how you control the pear psylla? 



Mr. Chatfield — ^We have not had much trouble with this since we began 

 to use lime-sulphur. Some of my neighbors have had it, and one in 

 particular I know^ does not spray very thoroughly. 



A Member — What time should we spray? 



Mr. Chatfield — Spray when dormant. 



