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14. If the fruit grower can establish his brand and secure 

 a list of customers from year to year, selling them apples that 

 will satisfy, he can get the retail price and increase his profit. 



15. The profitable result of growing apples is in securing 

 a market, adopting intelligent methods in selling and in keeping 

 down the overhead expense. 



Mr. Kellogg: I wish to ask the result of the painting for 

 blight; was there any good from it? 



Mr. Smith : We have tried it. I would refer that question 

 to Mr. Underwood, who is present. 



Mr. Underwood : I suppose Mr. Kellogg refers to our paint- 

 ing our orchard trees with a preparation, I think it was called 

 Warnocks. Some man down in Missouri, I can't remember so 

 very much about it, anyway he recommended a paint that would 

 prevent blight. I painted our trees with that preparation, and 

 all I can say is we haven't had any blight, but it takes more than 

 one swallow to make a spring, and I am not ready to recommend 

 it. I have heard that the preparation has been condemned and 

 there has been some trouble about it, but I don't know the par- 

 ticulars about it. I know that our trees have not blighted since 

 we put that preparation on. But we do not have much blight, 

 it was only some Wealthy trees that had commenced to blight a 

 little, and so we painted the trees. I shall try it some more. I 

 have a little confidence in it, but I haven't had the experience 

 that would warrant me to say to this society, by all means get 

 that Warnock paint and paint your trees if you have any trouble 

 with blight. 



Mr. Powers : How do you paint them, put it on with a 

 spray ? 



Mr. Underwood: No, you scrape the roughness of the bark 

 off from the body of the tree clear down to the ground and take 

 the dirt away at the root of the tree and then apply it with a 

 brush. It smells something like a petroleum product, I think it 

 has that appearance. I don't know whether any one else knows 

 anything about the paint or not. 



Mr. Ludlow : Will that paint keep off mice and rabbits? 



Mr. Underwood: I don't know that. I want to say right 

 here that the way to keep the rabbits and mice from girdling your 

 trees is to get rid of the rabbits and mice. Don't have any rab- 

 bits and mice, then you won't have any girdling, and it is easily 

 done. 



The President: Tell us how you do it. 



Mr. Underwood : Our president gave us a splendid remedy 

 at one of our meetings. He said to put some corn shocks around 

 your orchard, have something for them to eat there and then put 

 some poison in, I think. Anyway, that is what I would do. That 

 will keep the rabbits away. But we have a man that works for 

 us in the nursery a great deal, an old gentleman, and in the win- 

 ter time he doesn't work and he hasn't anything else to do. He 



