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on old, diseased trees. Can cover the whole tree with liquid. But 

 if dust is used as intelligently as we do liquid, we can have success. 

 I have been blamed for advising the use of liquid, but the principle 

 is all right. With dust you can take a boy and a little spring wagon 

 and can get over 40 acres and not cost one-fourth as much as 

 liquid. It positively does rid apple trees of canker worm, as does 

 liquid. They drop to the ground and die at once. Yon can apply 

 the dust in half the time you can the liquid. Dust is easily applied ; 

 it whirls around and through trees and spreads to the next row. I 

 have never taken the ground that it was a cure-all for all things. 



Mr. McCann, Moberly — I had an apple orchard in Macon 

 county, and plums also. I made the spray mixture as per formula, 

 and aplied it with hand sprayer. I got a nice crop of fruit and 

 raised the most perfect Jonathans and Ben Davis I have ever seen. 

 The Jonathan hung on the trees and were finished with Ben Davis. 

 The spray didn't cost a dollar an acre. 



Col. Evans — I am glad Mr. Goodman said what he did and as 

 he did. I think he is exactly right. We do many things without 

 immediate results. Keep trying from year to year, and the results 

 are bound to come. We used to condemn dust, but now say it may 

 do sometimes. The other side the same way. We ought to be pre- 

 pared to use both, or either. We have got to spray. 



Mr. Todd — I can only give my own experience. I began 

 spraying with liquid. The land was hilly and it was a great pro- 

 blem to get over the orchard with heavily loaded wagon, especially 

 when ground was wet, and this was the very time we needed to 

 spray. This Society taught me it was necessary to spray. I be- 

 gan using dust on young trees, and for one year used dust and 

 liquid, both, and found just as good results with one as the other. 

 Of course, you can't blame me for dropping the liquid. I bought 

 other machines and used dust. I have been to the front with fair 

 apple crop of pretty good quality, but nearly had one failure; two 

 hail storms caused it. Except this one year, I have had good, full, 

 clean crops, and I use dust. If I h^d an orchard very badly affected 

 with bad fungus, or canker worm, I would use a wash first, as fol- 

 lov/s: three gallons salt, 50 gallons water and six pounds blue 

 stone ; use once and follow with dust. I am satisfied with my treat- 

 ment, and believe dust is here to stay. 



Mr. Baxter — I have nothing to compromise on the question; 

 I am known as the man who fought dust spraying. This is wrong. 

 I never fought dust as an insecticide, but I doubt its efficiency as a 

 fungicide. 



