TWENTIETH AXNL'AL MEETING. 93 



Mr. Fexx: Yes. (Laughter and applause). I say right 

 here, every exliibit of apples I have put in competition has 

 been grown on sod. Further. I am informed that some of 

 the nicest colored apples shown in Boston were grown on 

 sod. 



Mr. Burt : Aly best apples grow on sod land. I took 

 the three first prizes at the Horticultural show two years 

 with those apples. At ^Manchester last fall the Baldwin 

 apples that took the first prize were the handsomest in color 

 I ever saw-. I incjuired why they had such beautiful color, 

 and they said: "Anybody ought to know that, because they 

 grew on sod land." Two years ago last June I sprayed with 

 arsenate of lead on that same land, and two weeks after that 

 I cut the grass, and was a little skeptical for fear it would 

 injure stock, but I fed it all out and found no bad results. 

 In that time we had but one rain after I applied the spray, 

 until I cut the grass. 



A ]\Iember : I have about 12 acres of orcharding that 

 has been in grass 25 years, and I have sprayed for nearly 20 

 years, with Paris Green first, and then with arsenate of lead, 

 and I cut in the neighborhood of two tons to the acre of grass 

 in my orchard, and I have never seen any bad effects of it. 



^Ir. E. E. Brown : About that poison effect, I would 

 say for the last ten years we have used for pasture for our 

 young calves an old orchard right by the house, we stake them 

 out there. Of course, they are fed some milk at the same 

 time, but they eat grass, they are kept on that during- the 

 summer. We have done that for the last ten years and I 

 have sprayed that orchard four times a year, and never had 

 a particle of trouble. They say we have a little extra calves 

 for growth and vigor. (Laughter), ^^'e also keep our young 

 chickens in this same orchard, and I don't think you will 

 have any trouble in one case out of a hundred. 



Mr. Wheeler : ]\Iay I ask a question ? It is out of the 

 line of spraying, but it is a verv important question because 

 it came up rather abruj^tly to some people in Boston, and that 

 is in relation to the root and crown e^all. I want to ask Prof. 



