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MR. DAVENPORT: There is (showing to audience) a 

 good example of cureulio. It isn't very often the curculio 

 leaves the apple in such poor shape as the red bug. 



:\IR. SEVEY: Have you the red bug here? 



:\1R. DAVENPORT : I do not happen to have a sample 

 uf the red bug, but the red bug does not leave the large 

 scars on the apple, as the curculio frequently does. 



:\IR. SE VEY : That is not my trouble at all. They are 

 usually on the blow end. particularly the Bismarck. Not 

 troubled on the Mcintosh or the others. It is the Bismarck. 

 T am inclined to think that variety may be the difficulty. 



.AIR. DAVENPORT: I do not know whether there is any 

 red bug located in this particular section or not. I know 

 further east from here they have found places where it haa 

 done some damage. 



MR. GRAVES : I want to ask the speaker if lime sulfur 

 will control scab on Mcintosh as well as the vitrol spray'? 



MR. DAVENPORT : There is one thing I meant to have 

 spoken about and that is this: If we are going to grow the 

 ]^lcIntosh. — if we are going to recommend the growing of 

 Mcintosh or any of the varieties so susceptible to scab we 

 ought to at the same time tell the man that he has got to 

 keep that tree sprayed with lime sulfur or some fungicide 

 ii he wished to get good fruit. Now if yo\i carry out the 

 lime sulfur spraying especially once before the blossoms open 

 as that is when the scab starts — another right after the 

 blossoms fall, and then possibly a third one — three or four 

 weeks later — I do not think you will find any trouble at all 

 in keeping the scab off the IMcTntosh with the lime sulfur. 



MR. CHASE: I would like to ask if the elevation of an 

 orchard has anything to do with the prevalence of apple 

 scab ? 



MR. DAVENPORT: I thiidc the elevation of an orchard 

 has a great deal to do with all the fungous troubles. If 

 the orchard sets high, and has good air drainage you are not 

 going to have nearly as much trouble from the different 

 diseases as when an orchard sets low snd the cool and moist 



