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Leggets and two Cyclones; rim with gasoline engines. So far I 

 am satisfied with results enough to encourage its continued use. 

 Not perfect, nor as efficient as I should like ; still hoping for the per- 

 fect machine, the perfect material, the perfect known time and 

 number of times we should apply." 



Prof. C. H. Dutcher, Warrensburg, Mo., President of Missouri 

 State Society, is our chemist. A professor from the scientific side 

 as well as from the practical side of the question. He says : "Pre- 

 vious to 1901 I used the liquid; since then the dust. I find it is 

 easier applied, cheaper, more expeditious and fully as effective in 

 the prevention and destruction of scab and codling moth as the 

 liquid. I now use five pounds of Sal Bordeaux, prepared by the 

 Kansas City Dust Sprayer Co., to 40 pounds of lime dust, adding 

 sulphur, concentrated lye and Paris green, as the case may require." 



These growers in evidence stand in the front rank of the most 

 successful growers, and are not interested in any way with the 

 production of machines or mixtures. 



I have read in the Book of Books that everything must be 

 proven by the mouth of two or three witnesses. As the Book is 

 supreme in its law, so the final testing of the merits of all scientific 

 theorizing in fruit growing must be decided by the intelligent, prac- 

 tical grower. — W. D. Maxwell, St. Joseph, Mo. 



DISCUSSION. 



W. D. Maxwell — That was a splendid nursery paper. As a 

 grower, I think a fraud is often perpetrated on us as to kind of root 

 used. But I believe we would be better off today if would choose 

 scions more carefully. The whole root question was the greatest 

 fraud we have had for a long time. How^ever, we would have better 

 success if selections were more carefully made. I know one or- 

 chard of Winesaps where some were twice as large as others, and 

 I couldn't understand, unless scions came from trees producing good 

 and inferior fruit. 



Mr. Tippin — Mr. Paul Evans, at Mt. Grove, has been con- 

 ducting experiments along this line the past two years and has 

 propagated in many ways, using scions from 1 inch to full length, 

 and roots the same, and kept a record of results, which will be pub- 

 lished in bulletin form for general distribution. 



Mr. Peyton — I didn't want to start a discussion on the whole 

 root question ; was just expressing my views of the subject. I don't 

 care about record of tree used to propagate from, but prefer scions 

 from bearing trees. Many practical nurserymen take from the 



