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we are apt to get too heavy wood growth, which sometimes 

 has a tendency to bring on certain diseases. 



MR. SEVEY : I infer the speaker in outlining this cam- 

 paign has reference almost exclusively to the apple and not 

 with the same campaign applied to peaches, for instance. 

 Further, that in your fourth and fifth sprays you did not 

 specify whether it was the same material and the same pro- 

 portions as in number two or three. 



MR. DAVENPORT: I was speaking principally in re- 

 gard to the apple and not in regard to the other fruit. In 

 the case of the fourth and fifth sprays you would use the 

 same materials except you might omit "Black Leaf -40" if 

 there wasn't any lice or red bug. At the same time we 

 might properly omit the arsenate of lead if there wasn't any 

 leaf eating insects. We must keep these facts in mind. 

 Lime sulfur is for the purpose of preventing certain fun- 

 gous diseases. Arsenate of lead is for the purpose of 

 destroying leaf-eating insects. Black Leaf 40 and Nicto- 

 tine i.>i for the purpose of destroying any sucking insect. 

 Now. no matter when we are going to spray or what we 

 are going to spray for. if there is not any leaf-eating insects, 

 there is not any object in using arsenate of lead. If there 

 is not any sucking insects, no object in using nicotine solu- 

 tion, for we must hit the insect with the Black Leaf -40 

 material in order to destroy it. For the diseases we recom- 

 mend using lime sulfur in practically all of our spray mix- 

 tures, as it is a preventive and thus stopping a disease 

 before it becomes well established. 



THE CHAIRMAN: I think the ((uestion Mr. Sevey 

 brought up in regard to spraying will have a tendency to 

 change around our system of fruit growing to a certain 

 extent. I know in my own case where we have followed 

 general fruit raising, peaches, plums, apples and pears, in 

 order to do justice to one or the other they are bound to con- 

 flict and it would seem that this is l)ound to bring around 

 one man to growing a single fruit on every section large 

 ejiougl) to make it worth while, rather than a small number 



