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of fruit. 



MR. HOWE : I would like to ask the speaker if he 

 thinks that arsenate of lead has any special value as a fungi 

 cjde. 



MR. DAVENPORT: No. In the case of arsenate of 

 lead we do not consider it has any value whatever as a fun- 

 gicide. We simply use it as a poison and not as a fungicide. 



MR. HOWE : I would like to state one of the speakers 

 yesterday said they believed they found out something, that 

 arsenate of lead would control the apple scab. 



MR. DAVENPORT : If that is true I am quite surprised 

 and wonder why we have not controlled apple scab in years 

 past where we have used so much arsenate of lead. 



MR. NORRIS: I had ((uite a little trouble this year on 

 the young trees, two-year trees, with the wooly aphis, some- 

 thing I haven't had any trouble with until this rear, and the 

 best way I took care of it was by going through the trees 

 and rubbing it off with my finger. Now, are we going to 

 liave a lot of trouble with that in years to come? It seems 

 to be very prevalent in my orchard this year on young trees. 



MR. DAVENPORT: In the case of the woolly aphis I 

 do not consider we are going to have a whole lot of trouble. 

 We have more or less of the woolly aphis one year or 

 another but it doesn't seem to be on the increase. It is 

 simply a case where one season we get quite a little, and the 

 next season we do not. I do not know myself what is really 

 the best remedy to keep it down. You take a branch where 

 the woolly aphis is and dip it into a nicotine solution and 

 that woolly nmterial around the o'utside seems to keep the 

 l!(|uid from them, but Avhether there is some other better 

 way or not, I do not know. 



THE CHAIRMAN : Did you use gloves. Mr. Norris, 

 when you did this? In regard to the tent caterpillar we had 

 always burned them off', and it was suggested by a professor 

 of the College that we go around in the early stages and take 

 them off with our fingers, pull the nest out readily. Finally 

 we got so we could do it very well, but nevertheless the 



