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water quite a distaiu'e it would be an advantage to use dust 

 sprays, but so far 1 do not tbink they have carried it on 

 long enough to prove to us that we should lay aside our 

 spraying apparatus to buy dust spraying equipment. In 

 the next few years it may be developed so that we will find 

 it advisable to use dust spraying, but as yet I do not think 

 we are ready to take hold of it. 



MR. HOWE: 1 would likt^ to inquire about the red 

 spider, its appearance, living and habits. 



MR. DAVENPORT : Do you refer to the red spider, or 

 the red bug? I have never seen the red spider working on 

 fruit trees. 



MR. HOWE: I have had something on the scions that 

 looked like a spider, ate the buds right out before the scions 

 got going. 



MR. DAVENPORT: I should not say it was the red 

 spider. Perhaps someone else could answer that. 



THE CHAIR]\rAN: Anybody had any experience in this 

 line that would help us? 



MR. DAVENPORT: It could not be the red bug. be- 

 cause the red bug does not do a great deal of damage to the 

 foliage, although it does work on the leaves puncturing them 

 but wouldn't do a sufficient amount of damage to injure 

 the scion at all. 



]\IR. COOKE: There is one thing the speaker spoke of 

 here about thinning out trees and letting the sun get in, 

 which I think is very important. It occurred to me we 

 might go one step farther in case of some of these Baldwin 

 spots. I found that it was a case of impaired vitality of 

 the tree and I found that you would create a condition in 

 the tree that w^ould be resistant. Well set and well bal- 

 anced trees have a greater resistance than a tree otherwise 

 in poor soil. I think many times by keeping our trees in 

 proper shape it will overcome a good many of these diseases, 

 especially fungous diseases, but no effect, of course, on the 

 insect diseases. 



THE CHAIRMAN: I believe tliat is verv true, unless 



