member, a year ago last fall, we not only had sooty fungus, 

 but the Brooks spot. How many had Brooks spot this last 

 year? — comparatively few. The year before a great many of 

 us were blessed with Brooks spot, in addition to sooty fungus. 



Without any different spraying on anyone's part, there 

 was very little Brooks spot this last year. I think if you 

 study the weather you will find that it was this that made 

 the condition. You know that the Brooks spot, and also 

 the sooty fungus, start during the summer, and at that pe- 

 riod, if we get a large amount of -rainfall or get quite a num- 

 ber of cloudy days you will find the sooty ftingus and the 

 Brooks spot spores are spread and develop very rapidly, and 

 after they get a good start, no matter how much spraying 

 we do or what the weather conditions are, we are bound to 

 get a bad case of it, but if we do get, at the time the sooty 

 fungus propagates some good clear weather, you will find, as 

 a general practice, that you get little trouble from this 

 disease. 



THE CHAIRMAN: Do you advocate spraying every 

 year, whether you see any indications of these diseases or 

 not? 



MR. DAVENPORT : Why, yes, as a general practice I 

 do. I believe we ought to spray at least three or four times. 

 The times of spraying that I advocate, of course, would not 

 be the same as Mr. Barclay because we are in a different sec- 

 tion f>i the country. But nevertheless, I believe we ought to 

 carry on from three to four sprayings, and at least one of 

 those ought to come at a time to check the Brooks spot and 

 sooty fungus or any other disease. 



THE CHAIRMAN: What time do you advocate for 

 that? 



MR. DAVENPORT: The way that I keep in mind the 

 different sprayings that we have for this section of the coun- 

 try is like this: We have one spray which comes about the 

 middle of May, which is .just before the blossoms open. Now, 

 that varies somewhat in the season, but comes usually about 

 the middle of jMav. The next one comes usually about Me- 



