•302 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



have had by using the lawnmower, because it took more work to keep 

 those roses in proper trim and proper blooming condition than it did to 

 mow the yard, but the pay has been a great deal more pleasant, because 

 they are the most beautiful part of the yard. They keep blooming from 

 early spring until it freezes up in the fall. People going along the road 

 admire them; they speak about your beautiful yard; it's always your 

 beautiful rose bushes. It is some trouble to take care of them, but they 

 pay in their attractiveness. 



JMr. Sandifer: I came out here to learn something that I have not 

 learned yet. If it has not been taken up I would like to ask a few ques- 

 tions about spraying, as I have quite an orchard of twelve acres of ap- 

 ples and pears that I planted in 1873. I took a great deal of pains set- 

 ting them out. I dug the holes two feet square and two feet deep, set 

 my trees the proper depth In the ground. I set out about twelve acres of 

 fruit; never lost but one tree from planting. I took a great deal of care 

 of those trees— every spring washed them down with the settlings of 

 soap, rubbing them. While I had the finest orchard in the country, that 

 bad winter that killed our orchards killed one-third of my trees. Other 

 orchards in the neighborhood killed all out. The balance of mine did not 

 do so well afterwards. The canker worm got into them. The neighbors 

 told me to spray. I bought a barrel sprayer and sprayed them three 

 times. The worms ate them up again. I should like to find out what 

 to use in spraying. 



Mr. Kingsbury: Use Paris-green, full strength. When did you spray? 



Mr. Flick: How much did you use? What proportion to the barrel? 

 Was your Paris-green pure? 



Mr. Sandifer: I could not say. I got it from the man I bought the 

 sprayer from. 



A Member: Did you spray before a hard rain? 



Mr. Sandifer: Think not. 



W. B. Flick: It is a fact that it requires more Paris-green to kill the 

 canker worm than most any other insect. Mr. Hobbs has used four 

 times the strength on the canker worm that it requires to destroy other 

 worms. We must get at them a little sooner than when the bloom falls, 

 and if we place poison where they can get it when young, they are easier 

 killed. I have sprayed for them just as soon as the buds show green on 

 the apple, before the bloom is out. That will catch the young ones, and 

 they are easier killed. While I made the Paris-green stronger, I would 

 add, in proportion, lime, 



