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Parrott on his feet for about two hours and a half, steady. 

 J don't know but what we ought to consider that we have 

 got our money out of him. Naturally, after we adjourn, a 

 lot of you will come up with individual questions, and if we 

 are going to keep him talking at the table, we might as well 

 have the questions public and all get the benefit of them. If 

 pny of you have questions that you think ought to be 

 answered, let us have them, don 't let him escape, but T 

 think we ought to be as merciful as we can. 



A MEjMBER: TIow do you control sooty blotch? 



PROF. PARROTT : There Avas more of this disease than 

 usual in New York on account of the extensive precipitation 

 <luring the late summer. It was very abundant in the 

 sections along the Hudson River Valley and in the fruit 

 growing belt near Lake Ontario. Thorough spraying with 

 lime-sulphur late in the summer controlled the disease very 

 satisfactorily. 



A IMEMBER : We sprayed July twenty-sixth, but still 

 we did not control it. 



PROF. PARROTT: Didn't the disease develop at a later 

 date in your case? 



A :\IEi\lBER: Yes. 



PROP. PARROTT: That was our experience in New 

 York and fruit growers that made their usual summer ap- 

 plication early in July or during early August did not 

 entirely protect their crop, but those who. repeated their 

 spraying later got considerable protection. Your experi- 

 ence is just like that of a good many growers in New York. 



MR. FROST : I Avould like to ask Prof. Parrott one 

 <|uestion that might help in concluding his talk to us — he 

 has given us so many excellent points — that is, if he has ever 

 teen any poor results from over-spraying? 



PROF. PARROTT: I never have and the whole ten- 

 dency in New Yorlc today is either to make more applica- 

 tions in our connnercial apple orchards and other fruit 

 plantings or to spray more efficiently, taking more time to 

 thoroughly Avet all surfaces of the trees and using more 



