AFTERNOON SESSION 2 O'CLOCK 



President Sears in the Chair 



THE CHAIRMAN: Now, ladies and gentlemen, I think 

 we will call our session to order. As I told you yesterday, 

 we are trying to make a specialty this year of beginning on 

 time. According to my time we are a minute and a half 

 lute already. We do not want to offend any worse than 

 that. 



We have this afternoon, I think, one of the most im- 

 portant subjects that we are going to discuss. You know 

 v.-e are always fond of telling you that everything we hap- 

 pen to be talking about at the time is the most critical and 

 important thing for discussion. I think I told you that yes- 

 terday, but I really think I am telling you the truth today. 



I do not believe there is any one thing that would do 

 more to make our fruit business what it ought to be than 

 for everybody to get hol», and spray their trees and spray 

 them well, because while pruning is important and ought to 

 be done, the man who does not prune his trees is frequently 

 going to get very good results. 



Then take the matter of cultivation, caring for the soil 

 in the orchard ; a man who has his orchard in sod or in 

 cultivation or has it half way between frequently gets ex- 

 cellent results, and any of the other operations in the 

 orchard he may neglect considerably and still come out all 

 right, but on the average the man who neglects spraying 

 gets left and frequently gets left badly, so I think we can 

 less well afford to neglect spraying than anything else. 



I am particularly glad that we are to have the speaker 



