FORTIETH ANNUAL REPORT. 29 



Mr. Faraswortli — T\\^o and one-half pounds. 



A Member — I want to say this in reference to Mr. Farnsworth.'s or- 

 chard : I was down there this summer and I noticed there were no ne- 

 glected orchards anywhere near his place, so after he controlled the first 

 codling moth, he had no other to contend with, so one spraying would 

 protect. 



Q. What do you think of the Wordeu-Seckel pear? 



A. I do not know anything about it; but Mr. Wilkin has had some 

 experience. 



Mr. Smythe — What do you say Mr. Wilkin? 



Mv. Wiiken — It has not borne very much since I have been there. It 

 is a little larger than the Scckel, but I do not think it is any improve- 

 ment on it. I think I would rather set Seckel than Worden-Seckel. 



Q. I would like to ask if he had no serious results in using lime- 

 sulphur and ai*senate of lead on i^ears this year. I used one to forty and 

 it burned my leaves. 



A. Not to any extent although we used one to fifty for the mast part. 



Q. "Why I asked the question is, that there seems to be a difference 

 of opinion and exjjerience in the use of lime-sulphur at varying 

 strengths. One man used it one to thirty and had Yerj liltle damage. 

 Others used it at one to forty and have trouble like myself, and others 

 did not have trouble. 



Mr. Farrand — Do you use any arsenate of lead? 



A. Yes. I use two and one-half pounds to fifty gallons of water. 



Mr. Farrand — Maybe it came from the lack of agitation. 



A Member — I would like to know any further results from Mr. Chat- 

 field, if we are being led along this channel of lead-sulphur, 



xV. The experience I had, was on apples, where we drew out the 

 material from the barn, without agitating the barrel, and we did not 

 have an agitator in our tank and as the result, where we commenced 

 the machine in operation we lost a great many leaves, but as we went 

 down the rows farther with the rest of that spray we saw no damage, 

 so I rather think that this damage of Mr. Chatfield's was one of a local 

 nature. But so far as spraying with lime-sulphur I can well afford to 

 lose all the apples off a dozen trees, for what I would gain by the pres- 

 ence of lime-sulphur on the trees. 



Q. What variety or varieties did Mr. Chatfield have? 



A. Kieffers. 



A Member — I have used lime-sulphur one to thirty-three and there was 

 no ill effects at all. 



Mr. WMlken — We had some experience. We burned some leaves of 

 plums but the trouble was, the barrel was not stirred up as much as it 

 should be and so the first that came out was too strong. We used one 

 to fifty and still it burned, but we laid it to lack of agitation. Agita- 

 tion is very important when you take the mixture out of the barrel, either 

 the commercial or the home made. If you do not, the latter part of the 

 barrel will be more weak and possibly not strong enough to be effectual. 



A Member — It must have been the arsenate of lead, for last spring we 

 used one to eleven just before the blossom opened and no harm was 

 showTi on our Kiefer pear trees. 



Mr. Wiiken — We have used this for two years as above given, with 



