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lead. lu a great many cases the arsenate of lead is not 

 necessary, but iu those sections where one is troubled with 

 bud moth, case bearers and green fruit worms, the addition 

 of arsenate of lead is desirable iu order to control such 

 pests. 



]\IE. FROST : Previous to the very general spraying 

 with arsenate of lead the railroad worm was very abundant 

 ni eastern Massachucetts, but during the last five or six 

 years I have hardly seen a railroad worm in eastern Massa- 

 chusetts. However, I find any quantity of them in the 

 western part of the state and in Maine and New Hampshire, 

 which are not in the areas where the spraying is very gener- 

 al, and I drew my conclusion more from that fact than 

 anything else. But aside from that there is a point that I 

 would like to call to. the attention of the people. We hear 

 fco much talk about these worms and aphis, but there is one 

 other trouble we are having here in New England tliat is do- 

 ing more damage than all of the bugs put togetlier; whether 

 it is caused by spraying or not spraying is a question I 

 would like to have someone answer. I refer to the scald 

 on the apples. Apples placed in storage in perfect condi- 

 tion in October come out in February looking like rotten 

 apples, although it is only skin deep. I have never heard of 

 anybody speaking of that except to cite the fact, but no one 

 tries to account for it. If Prof Parrott can give us an}' 

 information on that subject, I would like to have it. 



THE CHAIRMAN: This evening we are to devote to 

 the subject of marketing and will have a number of com- 

 mission men here at that time and will probably have more 

 l-eople in the audieuce who can answer satisfactorily at that 

 time. 



A ^MEMBER : What form of arsenate is used, powder 

 cr paste? 



PROF. PARROTT: In New York both fornix are being 

 used. I think by most growers preference is grven to the 

 paste form of arsenate of lead, although every year increas- 

 ing numbers of our growers are using the powdered arse- 



