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into the liquid, out not enough to do much harm. Cherries do not fade 

 out at all. We put some in a two per cent solution and none of their 

 color came out at all. We have tried it on plums and peaches; we put 

 some peaches last August in one and one-half per cent solution and 

 they still have the red cheek which is characteristic of the Elberta, the 

 variety which we used. In using this, seal it with a cork and then put 

 paraflSne or vaseline around the cork to keep it from escaping. 



Q. Iq what shape is this secured? 



A. It is secured in a liquid form; it is a gas dissolved in water. 

 It is imported and there are several tirms from which it can be had. 

 From Henry Hile Chemical Co. of St. Louis, the formaline or formalose, 

 it is a forty per cent solution of the Formalidi Hyde. 



Q. Has there ever been introduced in this section any device for 

 picking fruit; if so, what? 



Mr. Murray — I never heard of any kind of a patented fruit picker 

 and I hope I never shall. This is the best picker known (extending 

 his hand ). The hands are the best fruit pickers there are. I want to 

 see pickers employed in hand-picking. 



Mr. Goodman — I wouldn't give a cent for a man that couldn't pick 

 a hundred bushels a day with his hands: the hand is the best picker. 



Mr. Miller — I am glad Mr. Goodman made the remark that he 

 wouldn't give a cent for a man who couldn't pick a hundred bushels 

 a day; years ago I picked 80 bushels one day, but I was ashamed 

 to tell it, because I thought no one would believe me, but after I heard 

 once of a man who had picked more than that I did not mind telling 

 it, but I never told it until I heard of someone else. 



Q. An insect is killing my trees, what is if? 



A. Prof. Stedman — I think the gentleman must be mistaken ; 

 there is no insect on earth that will get into a tree and kill it in a short 

 time unless the tree is a very small one and a seedling. He starts off 

 apparently to describe the twig borer, but when he says it kills the 

 tree he gives the impression that one insect does it, and I do not know 

 what he has reference to, because it takes a great many borers to kill 

 a tree. A twig borer does not go into the heart of a tree; a twig 

 borer will kill a twig but it takes a great many to kill a tree. 



DISCUSSION ON SPRAYING. 



Mr. Moseley — The experience we have had in spraying with arce- 

 nate of lead is that there has been no damage done at all to the foli- 

 age or fruit, and I am well satisfied that it killed nearly all the cater- 

 pillars. We applied two sprayings of the arcenate of lead to the cat- 

 erpillars ; I only sprayed a little block with the lead, and I had to go 



