THIRTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. \oy 



men, but I have not been able to find it. Compressed air 

 requires a steam pump or gasoline engine of some kind. The 

 Niagara gas-sprayer seems to me the most ideal of any gas- 

 sprayer that has yet come out, but the carbonic acid gas costs 

 practically half-a-cent a gallon. In the South, with the good, 

 long days and level land, we are able to spray a thousand gallons 

 a day. Five dollars a day to run a pump ! In using man 

 power, we are four dollars and a half ahead on the game. Here 

 in Connecticut, an eightcen-}Tar-old boy can run the pump. 

 Farm hands ask, as one of the first things, "Have you got a 

 spray pump?" Now, the modern pumps can be worked by a 

 moderately strong boy or girl. But here you get a dollar and a 

 half as against five dollars with the cost of the sprayer on top. 

 It seems to me cheaper. If it makes a finer spray, that offsets 

 the cost of labor. 



Mr. Hoyt : The enemy that we have to fight is a formidable 

 one. It has come upon us with power and great force and 

 strength, but I am one of those of great faith. I don't believe 

 that we need to lie awake nights for fear this enemy is going to 

 overcome us. I never have yet seen the problem so great but 

 that the mind of man can overcome it. If it is a fact that we 

 who have the control of material things here upon this earth 

 cannot overcome this enemy, I am sorry for us. I believe 

 something will come up b}' which we can kill this enemy ; and 

 fighting this enemy will be a means of our producing more 

 and better fruit than we have done in the past. 



After devoting nearly the entire morning session to the scale 

 problem, the discussions were here drawn to a close, and Presi- 

 dent Gulley called upon Mr. Edwin Hoyt to present his paper 

 on Cooperation, which was carried over from the previous 

 dav's session. 



Cooperation and Cost of Production as Factors in 

 Meeting Competition in Fruit Growing. 



By Edzcin Hoyt, New Canaan. 



In the advance program sent out a few days ago, I saw 

 the above subject announced with my name under it. The 

 next dav I received a letter from our Secretarv asking of 



