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If he is going to malie a business of spraying trees, he must malie his 

 work successful. He will expect our testimony to help him in maliing 

 contracts next year. If he has gumption enough to run the business suc- 

 cessfully he will study it thoroughly, will read all he can find on the sub- 

 ject, and will fit himself out with the best spraying apparatus, wagon, 

 pump, barrel and spraying mixtures for the various diseases and insects, 

 and will know what, when and how to use them all. The plan seems 

 feasible, practicable and worthy of trial. 



We can and will prune, cultivate and, if need be, thin out the fruit, for 

 we plainly see that by the aid of proper and sufficient spraying we may 

 expect from our orchards, small as they are, ten to twenty bushels of fine 

 plums, twice as many pears, and from 500 to 800 bushels of apples of 

 good varieties, one year with another. These crops of fruit will pay us 

 more, at the prices that have ruled the past fifteen or twenty years, than 

 any other forty acres on our farms in regular field crops. We can well 

 afford to make the contract with the spraying man, though at a pretty 

 high rate, at the start; he promises to reduce the price after he gets the 

 business well established, and we see that he can afford to do so, as he 

 will have so many more orchards to care for, if he succeeds with ours. 

 Yes, we'll patronize the spraying man, one year, anyhow. 



After writing this much, by way of introduction, I reached the conclu- 

 sion that I would better drop the subject, in the interest of the profes- 

 sional members of the Society, and so I do. 



If I were urged to say anything further, however, it would be to en- 

 courage one or two men in each county neighborhood, whose time in 

 summer is not otherwise occupied, to fit themselves for the business of 

 spraying for the neighbors who have small orchards, as most farmers 

 do, and make contracts at fair rates for spraying them, believing that It 

 would become a fairly profitable business and highly satisfactory to the 

 farmers and their families. 



Mr. Keach: The reference to peaches calls to my mind that the apple 

 is not the all-important fruit in the State of Indiana. In Brown County 

 we have a peach orchard that will compare favorably with anything in 

 the State of Georgia. It belongs to an Ohio man, Mr. Freeman. Peaches 

 can be raised and marlceted in Indiana successfully. 



Mr. Hale: I would suppose from the way Mr. Kingsbury talked that 

 I would not tell anything that would interfere with my own business. 

 There is room enough in the world for everybody, and one reason I am 

 proud of being a horticulturist and of associating with horticulturists, is 

 that they are an open-handed set of men. They understand that by giving 

 they will get more. I was invited to talk about apples, but I would just 

 as soon talk about peaches. 



I think that Mr. Keach has good horse sense. He speaks for Ben 

 Davis apples, but he understands his business; he has to deal with you. 



