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regard to the best means of bestowing the plan with all its complete- 

 ness upon those who will accept it, and be fully governed by the plan. 

 Many persons have accepted my formula, and paid for it, and then 

 neglected it entirely ; therefore, for the benefit of the more progressive, 

 who will accept and uge the plan, shall surely be benefited thereby. No 

 one who has been governed by my plan ever failed, but all such have 

 succeeded, and now my plan is more complete and more easily followed. 

 No one can afford to experiment longeron plans of keeping fruit that 

 have always failed, but they can afford to accept my plan and go by it 

 until they can get something better. My plan as now completed is a 

 true and reliable guide to anyone who will accept and be governed by it, 

 which is very easily and cheaply done, by anyone willing to stop ex- 

 perimenting, I would be pleased to have a good committee, willing to 

 correspond, and be ready to report at the June meeting next summer, 

 1896, at which time I expect to make an old-fruit exhibit. 



Yours very truly, 



Conrad Hartzell. 



Trenton, Mo., Jan. 15, 1896. 

 L. A. Goodman: 



Dear Sir— In reply to your request I will give you a brief write-up of my patented "In- 

 sect Destroyer." It Is an appliance to IclU the borers, egfi;s and fungus parasites and In 

 fruit trees quickly, clieaply and surely, without marring tlie tree witli l\nlfe or otlier In- 

 strument. "With it I propose to do away with 75 to 90 per cent of the labor and cost and all 

 therisli from failure in "worming" fruit trees. 



Broadly described, my appliance consists of a ".jacliet" with clamp and springs con- 

 structed to hold hot or poisoned water or other liquid about the lower body or stump roots 

 of a fruit tree until the object is accomplished, which, with liot water, requires but from 

 one to three minutes. 



A single application yearly, after the borer fly has finished her laying, will keep a tree 

 clean of worms and other parasites. A little boy can do the work easily and thoroughly, 

 and treat from 100 to 150 trees a day, and expert, experienced men more accordingly. 



It will take a little while to convince orchardlsts generally that scalding will not liurt 

 trees, but they will soon learn it, and in meantime they can use any one of tlie numerous 

 known liquid Insecticides, only more slowly in operation. 



As for the results of hot water, I will refer to my brotlier. Judge Jolin O. Greene, of 

 New Albany, Indiana, who has been scalding liis peach trees for eight years, and who 

 failed in an effort to kill some by scalding. 



I hope to be able to furnish scalders In any quanities, witli full printed Instructions, 

 for use early this spring. They will be made in three sizes : 



No. 1 for trees under four inches in deameter No. 2, for trees over four and under 

 eight Inches. Xo. 3, for trees over eight and under 12 inches. Few orchardlsts will need 

 the largersize. The price will l)e about $3, or'two for $3. Yours truly, 



J. W. Gkeene, D. D. S. 



NewCambria, Mo. , Jan. 26, 1896. 

 Mr. L. A. Goodman, AVestport, Mo. 



Dear Sir— I thank you for horticultural report you kindly sent me lately. I live in the 

 hills west of Charlton river where there are many sorts of soil, mostly, to my belief, good 

 fruit land. Different fruits behave rather contrary here to rules of the books. I have the 

 following apple trees adjoining one another, planted in 1882: Porter, M. Blush, Mo. Pip.. 



