116 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. Baldwin : Don't you think we are lacking in one thing? 

 You go into the great fruit districts, and there they make spray- 

 ing absolutely compulsory. Inasmuch as our president has some- 

 thing to do with legislation, I should like to have something done 

 in that way whereby we can absolutely make our neighbors spray. 

 I think that could be pushed to the front like it is in other com- 

 munities, where they will go into a man's orchard and cut it down 

 by law, in the real fruit regions, if he don't spray. It seems to 

 me that in this age when we have so many farmers' organizations, 

 if they would get busy in the winter time and organize in such a 

 way, they could say : "Here, we will hire a man to do the spray- 

 ing, we will get a good sprayer and then we will see that every 

 tree, or fruit tree, in our locality is sprayed in a professional way 

 by this man who knows how." He can get his spray material at 

 wholesale cost, and then get on a business basis. When we spray 

 in our orchard, and our neighbor does not spray, his rubbish 

 comes over in our orchard, and it makes it pretty hard for us to 

 keep clean. (Applause.) 



Mr. Claussen : I agree with my brother here, but for some 

 of us it might be too late. That is the trouble. It isn't like 

 threshing or something like that. I always had the same opinion 

 as Mr. Baldwin. 



I want to ask a question. Is there any danger after spraying 

 to let animals in there to eat the grass, where you have clover? 



Mr. Bingham : I would like to say one word in regard to the 

 remarks made by the gentleman. We know that bordeaux mix- 

 ture and lime-sulphur are both good for the same purpose, being 

 fungicides. Now, the lime-sulphur in its concentrated form, as 

 used in a dormant spray, will kill the eggs of certain insects and 

 also the aphis, perhaps, but the lime-sulphur during the summer 

 will not control the aphis. Furthermore, I don't believe that it 

 is absolutely necessary for one man to complain very seriously 

 if his neighbor does not spray. We know that the codling moth 

 does not spread over a great area, and that you can grow good 

 apples right beside an orchard that is neglected, if you do your 

 work thoroughly. There may be the border row that is affected, 

 and a fence between the two orchards will prevent any effect at 

 all. Fire blight is different, that will spread in the general direc- 

 tion of the wind, but those fungous diseases do not travel very 

 far in any direction. 



Mr. Rasmussen: I would like to say something as to the 

 value of bordeaux mixture as a general spray. We use it on all 

 our fruit trees, berry bushes, strawberries, celery, squashes, 

 melons, beans, potatoes, about half the vegetables we grow, as a 

 preventive, keep them covered all the time to keep diseases from 

 them. Lime-sulphur is not safe to use on the tender plants. If 

 you have a general run of spraying you will find the bordeaux 

 mixture far more satisfactory, and we always add arsenate of 

 lead to get rid of any insects that come along. 



A Member : Do you do it on rose bushes ? 



