MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



soon after the fruit forms and, if rain washes it off, go over again, spray- 

 ing again in June and a last time in July. 



Mr. Patterson ^-^vc his experience in dissolving arsenic : He made 

 the mixture as directed by Dr. Goslin, but after giving it several days, he 

 had not been able to get a perfect .solution, but had made a good sus- 

 jjcnsion. 



Mr, Murray followed Dr. Goslin's instructions explicitely, and in five 

 minutes had a perfect .solution ; he had used three gallons of hot water 

 to dissolve the two and one-half ounces of arsenic, and then thinned it 

 down, so that he had 2\ ounces for lOO gallons of water. 



Dr. Goslin cautioned against using too much poison, stating that it 

 was not known whether the newly hatched worm was killed by absorp- 

 tion of the poison through their tender skins, or by eating the poison. 



In California there is a brood every month, and yet they have apples 

 free from worms ; if they can do this, should not the farmers of Missouri 

 look after the two broods a year .-' 



Secretary Goodman stated that in California the fruit growers make 

 as much a business of spraying their trees as we do of cultivating our 

 trees; they use one pound of Paris green or four ounces of arsenic to 200 

 gallons. 



Mr, L. A. Goodman: 



Dear Sir — As I notice I am on the programme for a piece (as the 

 school boy says), will first say that it will have to be a short one, as the 

 subject assigned mc, I think, requires the experience of one much older 

 in the business, and since I received notice of the duty assigned me I 

 have been very busily engaged in saving our crop of strawberries which 

 began to ripen the first of May, and as I have kept a record of sales of 

 berries up to date, I will send it to you. From the 8th of May to the 

 28th we sold 446 crates of twenty-four quarts each, at an average price 

 of about $2.50 per crate, and from that day up to June 4th, 215 crates; 

 the berries growing smaller as the season advanced did not bring so much , 

 but we sold at from $2.25 down as low as $1.50 per crate, mostly in our 

 home market, cases returned ; so our crop up to the present time would 

 average about $2.20 per crate. We estimate our whole crop to be about 

 725 crates — about 17,000 quarts — and think a safe estimate to be a little 

 over $2.00 per crate. Our vines are all among fruit-trees, and some 

 were so densely shaded, that I did not expect a half crop, for the trees 



