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]Mr. Steinian. — Is it best to spray little trees with the barrel 

 sprayer ? 



Sec. Goodman. — I would use a small duster upon little trees. 

 We add one pound of Paris green to twenty pounds of lime dust. 



C. H. Dutcher. — In mixing- lime Avith the copper sulphate what 

 proportion would you use? I have not tried to make Bordeaux dust. 

 I have bought it in the powdered form, using one pound of Leggett's 

 powder to twenty pounds of lime dust at first, and later one pound 

 to forty of lime. 



Mr. Chandler. — I would not slack the lime with the copper sul- 

 phate solution. 



Sec. Goodman. — That would destroy the eftect of the mixture. 



C. H. Dutcher. — Lime and copper sulphate ground together in 

 a dry powder proved effective. 



]\Ir. Johnson. — We have tried to get a dry Bordeaux in which 

 the copper sulphate is held in suspension till it goes to the tree. We 

 are after information. 



Mr. Baxter. — Dry dust is a good insecticide, but not good fungi- 

 cide. I say the liquid spray is the proper thing for fungus diseases. 

 By means of it I controlled the grape rot completely for thirteen 

 years, upon five hundred acres, never losing a crop in the thirteen 

 years. If you try to prevent grape rot with dry dust you will fait. 

 1 have not tried it and I don't want to try it, for I know it will fail. 

 1 believe Mr. Moore of West Virginia claimed that he saved his 

 grapes by dusting them, but I don't believe it until it is proved by 

 repeated experiment. A young man who had worked for me leased 

 a vineyard from a man who had lost his crop by rot for several years. 

 He was ready to dig up his vines. The young man sprayed it care- 

 fully and gave it good culture and had a fine crop of grapes except 

 upon two rows which he left without spraying. These two rows had 

 no grapes at all upon them. 



LETTER ON PEACHES IN NORTH MISSOURL 



St. Joseph, Mo., December 7th, 1903. 

 J. M. Irvine, Esq., St. Joseph, Mo. : 



Dear Sir — Regarding peaches in Northwest Missouri, you can 

 say that in the blufY.^ on the Missouri river from Boonville to the 

 Iowa line there is no better locality in the west so favorable for peach 

 growing. There is something in our soil that is adapted to peach 

 growing which produces the most perfect and finest flavored peach 



