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the box, "Can we use arsenate of lead on grass or mowing 

 safely where the grass is to be used for stock?" Will some- 

 one answer that? 



Dr. Clinton : Why, I wouldn't want to use it directly 

 on the grass. In ]\Iassachusetts w^e always put up a sign : 

 "Be careful, these trees have been sprayed and we will not 

 be responsible for injury." The little that drops under the 

 tree probably does not cause injury, although I understand 

 up in Massachusetts they have had complaints from differ- 

 ent people of injury from the spraying of trees. 



Prof. Gullev : I would like to have Mr. Wheeler 

 answer' that, how much damage they have had from the 

 chance of getting too much on the soil ? Certainly I haven't 

 the least bit of fear of hurting an animal by putting anything 

 on the trees. 



Mr. Wheeler : I know of two or three cases in Mas- 

 moth, we occasionally hear complaints about cattle that have 

 sachusetts where in spraying for the gypsy and browntail 

 been injured, and in one case, I know where a cow died from 

 the effect of eating grass under a tree that had been sprayed 

 with arsenate of lead, and I have heard of other cases. Aiul 

 one thing I know with cattle happened in my own town, 

 where the apple trees were sprayed with a mixture of arsen- 

 ate of lead, about four pounds to 50 gallons, and the cow ate 

 the grass the next day and died within 24 hours, so that it 

 can happen. W'hether it is a great danger, I don't know, I 

 hardly think it is. I wouldn't advise anybody to let their ani- 

 mals eat grass under trees that have been sprayed with ar- 

 senate of lead within a week. By that time the grass will 

 have grown up. I doubt if there is any case where the grass 

 has been cut and cured and put in the barn where the gra'-'s 

 would injure the stock. 



Mr. J. H. Hale : Perhaps sometimes one question can 

 be answered satisfactorih- by asking another. Is there any 

 member of this society who has got ginger enough to spray 

 his trees as he ought to spray, who is growing tliem in sod? 

 (Laughter). 



