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will be successful. So long as you have some one to work for you by 

 contract, you will never be successful. He will want to go from one 

 job to the other, and this will leave just so many trees more for the 

 following summer. 



The CflAIKMAN: If there is no iurther discussion, we will go on 

 with the next number on the program, which is Unfinished Business. 



It appeared that there was no Unfinished Business to be brought 

 before the house. 



MR. HUTCHISON: We have with us Professor Hunt of the Experi- 

 ment Station, who was also with us last year, and we shall be 

 pleased to have him say a word. 



PROF. HUNT: I think, with your permission, I will not take up 

 any of your time this morning. It is very kind of you to give me the 

 opportunity to address you, but as I am to speak to-morrow morning, 

 I will not take up your time now. I thank j^ou for the kindness, and 

 trust I shall become better acquainted with you before the end of the 

 Convention. 



MR. SNAVELY: If there is no other business before the Board, we 

 might as well proceed -with the election of officers. 



The CHAIRMAN: That does not take place until Wednesday morn- 

 ing, according to the By-laws; but since there is no Unfinished 

 Business, we shall be glad to hear from any one before we take a 

 recess. 



DR. FUNK: I would like to hear from some of these people who 

 have sprayed v.ith lime, sulphur and salt, or who have had demon- 

 strations on their places. 



MR. SEXTON: I would like to inform the Doctor of my experience 

 with lime, sulphur and salt. The subject is an important one, and one 

 well worth talking about, and while we are on it, we may be able to 

 learn a great deal if we continue the discussion. About two years 

 ago, when our trees should have bten sprayed, I was too busy to 

 attend to it myself. There is a nurseryman not far away, who has 

 the paraphernalia and goes around the township spraying trees, so 

 I had him come and spray mine; my trees were badly infected, and 

 are still, although they have been tvrice sprayed with lime, sulphur 

 and salt. How do you account for that? 



DR. FUNK: I hope this will bring up one of the Conundrums. 



MR. SEAVY: Some of my neighbors and I found that v.e had the 

 San Jos^ Scale, and we had a man down from Erie County to look at 

 our trees; he said, "You have the San Jos6 Scale, and your trees will 

 die." But he set at it, and we all went there to see tlie work. He 

 mixed thejime, sulphur and salt; it was an ideal day, and we watched 

 him spray. Of the plum trees, some were dead, tome dying; some 

 he cut down. This man sprayed twice, and there is no more scale 

 there. This year we had a large crop, which we sold for two dollars 

 a bushel. I suppose v/e lost about twenty-five or thirty trees before 

 we knew what was the matter, and before we saw the State demon- 

 stration of lime, sulphur and salt. 



