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markets once or twice a year, they would learn niauj' many things help- 

 ful to them in their marketing, 



DISCUSSING MR. WHITB''S TALK. 



Mr. Bagley — How strong Lime-sulphur dare you put on when apple 

 buds are in the pink? 



Mr. White — T may say I have seen it used a good many strengths, 

 as strong as Oy^ to fifty when the trees were in full bloom. It bunied 

 the foliage a little bit but strange to say, in this particular case, did not 

 harm the fruit at all. T Avould not think of recommending more than 

 one and one-half gallons to fifty. 



Mr. Bagley — T have been greatly troubled Avith the Leaf Boiler in my 

 crabapples? Finally, about the time the buds were in the i>ink, T 

 sprayed with the commercial Lime-slphur and Arsenate of T^ad, four 

 pounds to forty gallons and last year I didn't have any leaf rollers. 



A Member — There are a great many fruit growers Avho take a great 

 deal of pride in their work by spraying with the wind. Some of them 

 don't call it a full spray until they have sprayed both ways. Last year 

 it was almost impossible to throw the spray up against the wind. What 

 would be the best practice in such a case with only a few days to do it in? 



Mr. Case — T have been right through that. I didn't get the spray all 

 on either. Some of my trees are so large you cannot throw up against 

 the wind and it is impossible to do a good job. There are some of our 

 people at Ithaca at the Cornell Experiment Station, who claim to have 

 something that Avill throw it against the wind. Our plan is always to 

 lay our orchard off in blocks. When we spray we have one orchard we 

 spray north and south and another orchard we spray east and west so 

 that when we commence we can spray even if the wind is in any quarler. 

 Sometimes we have to wait a little bit but we are very sure to take 

 advantage of the south wind. I bought a second sprayer just to over- 

 come the point you have spoken of. If we have an east wind, we put 

 in both sprayers. Last year we only had three or four days for that spray 

 after the buds started until they were in bloom and I know if I had 

 the thing to go through with again, I would keep right at the trees at 

 any price. 



Mr. Morrill — There is a peculiar condition in our connti-y at Benton 

 Harbor there on the lake shore during the spraying season. After one 

 o'clock in the afternoon you can nearly always rely on west or north- 

 west winds and it doesn't put many of us to a serious disadvantage to 

 get the sprays on the south and east side. But during that i)eriod, it 

 is almost always quiet. Sometimes it is quiet in the evening but people 

 do not always take advantage of it and early in the morning there is 

 generally a time we can take advantage of. One grower is using one 

 strength for all purposes. I wish Mr. White would tell us, if he can, 

 the different strength an apple or pear will take in comparison with a 

 cherry or peach. I tried an experiment a few years ago in thinning 

 apples. It cost me seventy-five cents a tree to thin my Hubbardstons 

 and I found I got as many bushels of apples off the trees as in any other 

 season. , ' , ' 



Mr. Case — In peaches or api>les or any fruit you don't get the fullest 

 results after the seed is formed. 



