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and he went about twenty miles to attend the meeting. At Greens- 

 boro there was an attendance of nearly one hundred men, there for 

 business, and in less than a week afterward every hardware firm in 

 the town had sold every spray-pump in stock and many more good 

 outfits were ordered from the makers. At Mocksville there was one 

 man who came nearly forty miles by rail for the one purpose of at- 

 tending the meeting. Concerning that same meeting Mr. J. D. 

 Hodges, in whose orchard the work was done and who is also county 

 superintendent of schools, wrote : 



"The work was carefullj^ and painstakingly done. At each 

 step explanations clear and plain, in language easily understood 

 by the plainest and most unlearned citizen, were made. In my 

 work as superintendent of schools I have been in all parts of the 

 county since, and everywhere people inquired about the work. 

 The money spent by the state in these demonstrations is well 

 worth while,- — is indeed bread cast upon the waters that will re- 

 turn a hundred-fold enlarged." 



At the demonstrations at Shelby there was a man in attendance who 

 walked twenty miles for that one purpose, and at several meetings 

 there were persons who had driven an equal or greater distance. And 

 never before have we had such a deluge of inquiries from persons who 

 want to begin spraying as we have had this spring. 



The reader may think that we are overdoing the matter, that we 

 are lessening the dignity of the profession by a cheap appeal to the 

 public, but we have had that point constantly in view all the time 

 and plead ''not guilty." We have at times been accused of being 

 too mild in our claims for spraying, and have been told that we should 

 make our statements more positive and less conditional. Every detail 

 of the work is thought out and provided for in advance, and we keep 

 on the safe side of conservatism in our statements to the growers, — 

 that is why we are getting their confidence in this matter, because tvhaf 

 we advise we have proven to them. This is not cheapening our work, 

 it is making it available and is making it truly economic. 



We see no reason why similar demonstrations cannot be conducted 

 in other lines of economic entomology. We note with interest that 

 Mr. E. P. Taylor is doing something similar in Missouri in spraying 

 for San Jose scale. The Geneva (N. Y.) Station has long conducted 

 tests in potato spraying, which only lack the feature of publicity and 

 audiences to make them true demonstrations. In INTarj'land Mr. 

 Symons sprayed many orchards for the growers at cost prices. A very 

 similar work is being carried on in Pennsylvania by Professor Sur- 



