THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT. 107 



DISCUSSION. 



Q. What would you use for a strainer? It will destroy copper. 



Mr. Farrand: I use a brass strainer; or I have used galvanized iron. 

 They last one season and they are cheap. But it will eat copper very quickly. 

 Brass of a very fine mesh I use. There is no trouble in straining this mixture. 

 I find when it is hot it will run right through just as nice. I have proved 

 it in a hundred places in Michigan where I have held demontrative meetings, 

 where they thought it was going to be so hard to use. The success of it 

 has always been a surprise to them — a very fine brass mesh strainer. 



Mr. R. A. Smythe: We have been spraying five years with the sulphur 

 and lime. Of course the first year we had all sorts of things eaten up with 

 it. This last year we had a very large funnel made with a three-inch hole; 

 and a funnel made of galvanized screening and soldered right on a steel ring; 

 the angle of the screen is in the same angle of the funnel, so it gets a large 

 surface; having this steel ring on it, you can take it out and knock it on the 

 wheel of your wagon and it is clean in an instant; and it is the most satis- 

 factory thing I have found yet; we can run the liquid through almost as 

 fast as it comes out through the two and one-half inch pipe. 



Mr. Farrand: I have a little note here I would like to read from Prof. 

 Taft. He is not here. I wrote him regarding the spraying experiments 

 and tried to find out what there was new at the experiment station. He 

 says: "I really don't know of anything new, I would call new, that is 

 really worth while to take up. We have continued testing the various 

 prepared remedies for the San Jose scale, and have found none of the old 

 kinds nor any new kinds worth considering." That is what Prof. Taft says 

 after a year or two working at the experiment station. "The results were 

 not different from those obtained by you, or what we have reported since 

 that time, for the summer brood of San Jose scale nor other enemies." Now 

 that is my point. I have been asked that question many times about fighting 

 the summer brood of San Jose scale, and I have never been able to get a 

 mixture strong enough to kill it without killing the foliage. "I would use 

 the self-cooked sulphur lime mixture, using the 20 pounds lime and 10 pounds 

 of sulphur for 50 gallons ; but in order to dissolve as much sulphur as possible 

 I would prepare it in a barrel, using at least 40 pounds of stone lime and 20 

 pounds of sulphur, starting the slacking with hot water and diluting to 100 

 gallons. This would not injure the foliage even of the peach, and is also 

 one of the best remedies for scab and rot of peaches and plums. It should 

 be applied at intervals of ten days, beginning when the fruit is about half 

 grown, or earlier if the rot appears. When it is used in addition to one spray- 

 ing of Bordeaux mixture and arsenite, after the fruit has set upon peaches, 

 and two applications upon plums, it will, if applied thoroughly, practically 

 prevent the rot and scab. 



Mr. Hutchins : Have you ever had any experience in spraying the peaches 

 for the brown smutty spots on them? 



Mr. Farrand: Yes sir, I have. We sprayed at the experiment station 

 all the years I was there. All I know is this; that in the four years I was 

 at the experiment station we used always every year one spraying of weak 

 Bordeaux mixture, two pounds of the vitriol and three pounds of lime, to 

 50 gallons of water on the peach. We did sometimes get a little burning 

 of the peach, but I never saw the black spot upon -any variety while there. 



Mr. Hutchins: What time did you put it on? 



Mr. Farrand: Usually when the peaches were well set, the latter part of 



