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planting's about our homes, much of wliich is in danger equally 

 with our orchards. 



All of us as members of this Society, as owners of Con- 

 necticut orchards and Connecticut homes (and there are none 

 better), have a common interest in any method of treatment 

 that promises to relieve from threatening disaster. 



A few more words and I am done. In the midst of a cer- 

 tain section of our peach orchard, we have an apple orchard 

 of thirty to forty years of age, good, vigorous trees. Wc know 

 that scale to some extent has got onto them : they were treated 

 in the last spring's work and I am inclined to believe that 

 such sized trees present a much harder problem to handle right ; 

 and I cannot help finding myself casting about for a plan of 

 apple orcharding that will give us a form of tree more easy 

 to spray, easier to thin and gather the fruit from, and, perhaps, 

 commence to produce fruit at an early age. I believe this form 

 of tree and condition of orchard is bound to come ; that the 

 old form of tree and plan of apple orcharding is bound to go 

 in time. The scale and lack of the right spraying appara- 

 tus will force this even if other reasons do not. We regard 

 our outfit and spraying apparatus as good for an ordinary spray- 

 ing job as we know how to make it, yet it is far from what we 

 need for large spraying operations. A much larger capacity 

 for manufacture, with a stationary plant fitted up to economize 

 labor in every way, a cheap, light and easily managed power 

 to drive the pump to spray, is much needed. I doubt if any 

 of the commonly mentioned sources of power are right, that is, 

 are the best. I have not been able to learn of anything in the 

 market that seems to fill the bill perfectly. Some w^ay of using 

 compressed air appears to me. to promise something desirable 

 in this direction. 



Of course, it is desirable to be good missionaries among our 

 neighbors, rendering what aid we can in cases of actual orchard 

 infestation and encouraging the removal of all natural growth 

 that by its close proximity might afford a breeding place for 

 scale and be the source of reinfestation of a sprayed plot. 



Discussion. 

 Prof. Greene: About how many days did it take? 

 'Mr. Barnes : About thirtv davs. 



