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of the afternoon address us, it is a thing I have been looking 

 forward to a long while, to get Professor Parrott here to talk 

 to ns on this subject. I would like to tell you something 

 more about him and blow his horn a little bit, but he is a 

 modest man from Kansas, like myself, and I am going to 

 forbear entirely on that account and let you judge him by 

 his own speech, by what he has to say to us. 



I have great pleasure in introducing Prof. P. J. Parrott 

 of the Geneva, New York, Experiment Station, who will 

 talk to us this afternoon on spraying. (Applause). 



RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN SPRAYING PRACTICES 



P. J. Parrott, Entomologist, New York Agricultural Experi- 

 . ment Station, Geneva, N. Y. 



The problem of spraying commercial orchards is a sub- 

 ject of great practical importance. A perusal of the reports 

 of this Society shows that this topic has received its 

 due share of attention at the regular annual meetings. In 

 cascussing the subject as announced it is my purpose to 

 consider certain spraying problems that now confront the 

 fruit growers of New York. Some of our practices are 

 aoubtless of interest, if not of direct importance to orchard- 

 ists in this state. However, it is far from my intention to 

 give specific recommendations as to wliat constitute good 

 spraying practices in Massachusetts. Instruction along 

 these lines may well be left to your experts who, by reason 

 of an intimate knowledge of your individual circumstances, 

 should always be consulted when advice is needed. 



The propositions along the lines of spraying now 



