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of pleasure in spraying. I imagine the greatest pleasure 

 we can get out of spraying is on this end of it, to be told 

 how to do it. Those who have had experience know well 

 enough the results of doing it. Also there is a pleasure, 

 with a good barrel of apples because of spraying operations. 

 I am sure now, Mr. Davenport will be ready to answer any 

 questions. The discussion will now open. Parties asking 

 questions will please give their names. 



MR. ANNIN: Mr. Davenport, you spoke about putting 

 two to three pounds of arsenate of lead in witii your solu- 

 tion, 1-1/4 of lime sulfur to 50 of water. Is there any objec- 

 tion to putting a little heavier dose of arsenate of lead in, 

 5 pounds to 50? 



MR. DAVENPORT : I do not know as there is any great 

 objection. Of course it is a case you might say of economy. 

 If you are not going to gain anything, there is no object 

 in doing it, although I realize that in Gypsy sections it is 

 oftentimes advisable to use more than two or three pounds, 

 but I question whether there is any object or any need of 

 putting more than two or three pounds in any other section 

 of the State. We are simply increasing the cost of our 

 spray material without getting any better result. 



MR. PUTNAM: I would like to ask the speaker if I was 

 correct in understanding him to consider the Brooks spot 

 and Baldt\nn spot as identical. 



MR. DAVENPORT : No. Notice I said that the Bald- 

 win fruit spot and the Brooks spot are identical. There is 

 another disease which we call a physiological disease, called 

 the Baldwin spot, ])ut not the Baldwin fruit spot, so that we 

 have those two, the Baldwin spot which has been quite com- 

 mon for a good many years, especially on the Baldwin 

 apple, and on other apples; and then the Baldwin fruit 

 spot which is often called the Brooks spot, which is entirely 

 separate. In the first case we do not know what causes the 

 trouble, or we do not know definitely what causes it. In the 

 second case we know that a certain fungous disease causes 

 trouble, so that in the first case we cannot prevent it by 



