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The codling moth passes the winter in the pupae stage and at the 

 proper time it will come out and lay its small egg in this apple or 

 on some leaf in close proximity. That little microscopic piece of 

 work is now accomplished and finds a secure hiding place. 



BURGESS PENNYPACKER: Does the use of spraying destroy 

 the gypsy moth in Massachusetts? 



DR. FUNK: To a certain extent, but they never had sufficient 

 means to carry that out, as I understand it, as they should, but where 

 they used the arsenite of lead, wherever they used it effectually, they 

 kept it in complete subjection in spite of all obstacles, and it is a pest 

 that is if anything rather worse than the San Jose" Scale. 



(Holding up a sample of fruit, and naming it the Stamen Wine- 

 sap.) I want to call your attention to this fact. There are gentle- 

 men right in this house that saw these trees on which this fruit was 

 grown, that I am referring to, and last fall a year, they were so 

 completely infested w r ith scale that you could not touch any part of 

 the bark but what you could scrape up the scale. The whole bark 

 was red, and continued red a quarter of an inch into the wood. The 

 heavier limbs last spring were thoroughly sprayed. We thoroughly 

 sprayed these limbs with lime, sulphur and salt and now you can't 

 find a single scale on those trees. We followed up the first applica- 

 tion in due time and in about ten or twelve days later we gave it a 

 third spraying, and I propose this summer to carry out an experi- 

 ment and copper plate them; that is what you may call it, as they 

 do in Oregon, w T here they get the finest fruit there is in the world. 

 I shall use the following formula: 65 pounds of lime, 50 pounds of 

 sulphur, 25 pounds of salt, and 150 gallons of water. 



A Member: Slacked or unslacked lime? 



DR. FUNK: You want fresh lime, the very best that you can get. 

 I have here on platform (indicating his method) a place where my 

 wagon comes along, right on this first platform which is level with 

 the ground. I have here a kettle holding 75 gallons. I have an- 

 other large boiling concern that I can boil 150 gallons or more in. 

 I will fill that 75 gallon kettle very nearly full of water. I weigh 

 out my material and I will put my sulphur in that barrel (indicat- 

 ing) and put sufficient boiling w r ater in it, and stir that up until I get 

 it into a thin slop. I will put about 20 gallons in my boiler and keep 

 that boiling without any check-up, then I will put the whole amount 

 of lime in there, and the moment it is put in there it will start to boil- 

 ing furiously. 



At this time a representative of the street car company of West 

 Chester extended an invitation to the members to visit Mount Brad- 

 ford, and view the scenes of the Battle of Brandywine. 



