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MR. RODGERS: What kind of a day woalu you use— a clear, sun- 

 ghiny day? 



DR. FUNK: Most certainly; I want a quiet, sunshiny day, or it 

 will not dissolve the oils as quickly sm necessary. 



MR. SNAVELY : A few other matters I want to ask the Doctor : 

 Whether it is safe to spray any time after the foliage is ofE the trees? 

 Now, my experience is that it is not safe to spray peach trees with 

 salt. We cut it out altogether, and use only the lime and sulphur. 

 In my experience, it is not safe to use salt; it has killed a large num- 

 ber of buds. 



DR. FUNK: Can't you go further, and say terminals? 



MR. SNAVELY: No; but I can say that it is not safe to use salt 

 on peach, or Japan plum trees in the fall. 



DR. FUNK: I think if you will go back to my last year's report, 

 you will find that I say the terminals on peach trees were killed by 

 the use of salt in the fall, and I would not think it safe to spray a 

 tree in the fall, but in the spring, when they have the most 

 resistant power. 



MR. RODGERS: Heretofore, at our meetings, you have recom- 

 mended lime, sulphur, and salt, and now you do away with the salt; 

 for what reason do you do away with the salt? 



DR. FUNK: Because it is useless; I find it is even injurious on 

 tender leaves, owing to the chlorine in salt, and it is a large expense, 

 and I find that the Time and sulphur adheres equally long without it. 

 I can show you trees in my orchard that we sprayed last spring, 

 where it is still on. Experience, you know, improves us, all along 

 the line. 



MR. GLOVER: I would like to know whether you know of any one 

 who is fixed up to go around and spray for farmers? 



DR. FUNK: There is a party near Germantown who is doing that 

 kind of work, but I don't believe it wiU ever be a success. Anybody 

 may fix up a machine to do this, but I don't believe it will ever be a 

 success, because weather conditions will not warrant it. You can 

 spray with an October wind, but you can't spray against it; now, 

 when we were spraying our orchard last winter, the wind blew in one 

 direction for all the time except three days. We had all our orchard 

 covered on one side, and only three days to spray the other in. Now 

 take a case like this; he may go and spray for John Jones or Peter 

 Smith, and may spray on one side for fifteen days, and then have only 

 three days to spray the other in, and his engagements would make it 

 necessary for him to go to some other orchard; what would be the 

 result? Why, the orchard being only sprayed on one side, and the 

 work incomplete, the man would refuse to pay for it, because the 

 work was not done according to contract. 



Any man can get a hand pan of eighty to one hundred pounds 

 pressure, and then he can go around and spray his trees. Then he 



