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lime we prefer. (It should be the calcium lime rather than 

 the magnesium lime as the latter is a cold lime. — Sec'y.) 



Question: That is white, isn't it? 



PROP. FARLEY: Yes. It costs more, but we think it 

 IS worth while. 



:MR. MARGESOX: Did you ever use hot water in slak- 

 ing? 



PROP. PARLEY: Yes, when we had a slow-acting lime. 

 With the higher grades of lime we do not find it necessary to 

 use the hot water, but if it will not slake with cold water we 

 use hot water, and if it will not slake with hot water we try 

 another brand. 



THE PRESIDENT: Well, I am still interested in the 

 soluble sulfur. I am going to ask Mr. Jenks, who has been 

 to the New York Pruit Growers' Meeting, what he heard out 

 there about it. 



MR. JENKS: There seems to be as much difference of 

 opinion there >as there appears to be here. I don't recall 

 any one getting up and highly recommending it for summer 

 work, but many of the larger growers did say the same thing 

 Mr. Davenport has said. I should say that ]\Ir. Davenport's 

 opinion was the concensus of opinion in western New York. 



THE PRESIDENT :That is, that it is good for winter 

 but questionable for summer? 



MR. JENKS : Yes. 



QUESTION: I would like to ask in regard to a remedy 

 for the so-called "yellows" in peaches. 



PROP. FARLEY: The only remedy I know of is pulling 

 out and destroying the affected trees. We have been work- 

 ing on the "yellows" question in New Jersey for the last 

 ten or fifteen years, and I think we are a little further ad- 

 vanced now than we were when we started, but only a little. 

 Dr. Cooke, our plant pathologist, believes that he can tell 

 "yellows" in a tree by a certain chemical analysis and he is 

 working along that line; but so far as the cause of the dis- 

 ease is concerned, we have very little more information now 

 than we had twenty-five or even fifty years ago. It is a 



