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ground. I remember one orchard I was in, I think it was about as 

 fine looking an orchard as I have ever seen in my life, peaches and 

 apples, and it showed that the man had some intelligence in the 

 care that he had given it. 



Mr. Latham : Did you see any scab ? 



Mr. Elliot: We are not in it with scab. Their soil in many 

 places is full of rock, and in one place particularly they told me 

 they dug the holes with a pick and wheeled enough dirt in to plant 

 the trees — but they were raising a fine quality of fruit. Speaking 

 of what they have to do down there, Mr. Geo. T. Lincoln — I cannot 

 name the town he is in — told me he marketed this year i,8oo 

 barrels of fruit, the finest fruit that was grown in that section. It 

 was right in that same neighborhood where those green sour 

 oranges were. I did not know I was to talk here, or I would have 

 brought some of the fruit with me that they raise down there. Now 

 you may ask what did that man Lincoln do to get all that nice 

 fruit? He used dust spray. He sprayed twice before the trees 

 were in bloom. As soon as the blossoms had fallen he sprayed 

 again and twice afterwards, making five times that he sprayed. I 

 am satisfied with the- dust spray, and I am going to use it next year. 

 We can e^o where we will, and we find that every one has his 

 troubles, and we have got to use pretty nearly the same intelligence 

 to combat them. If we expect to succeed in this state we have got 

 to use better methods. I want to say that the trip l made down 

 there was a delightful one. I don't know when I took a trip that 

 I enjoyed as much as I did that, and it was a perfect ovation from 

 start to finish. We visited town after town where they were 

 expecting us, and in three instances they had arranged a fruit and 

 vegetable show to show us what they could do. They did not tell 

 me the other side of the story, but they told me the best side always ; 

 they put the best foot foremost just the same as we do here: 



Mr. Geo. J. Kellogg (Wis.) : Do they spray while the trees 

 are in bloom ? 



Mr. Elliot : No, just after. 



]\Ir. O. F. Brand : They have those very heavy dews, that is 

 the reason they are so successful with the dust sprav. 



Mr. Elliot: We have heavy dews here. The only difficulty 

 with us is that we do not improve the opportunity. VVe usually 

 have something else to do, but we could use dust spray just as well 

 as not. We could put it on early in the morning or late in the 

 evening. 



