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he was talking about spraying- once in three years. It rather 

 amused me to hear a man talk about spraying once in three 

 years. We want to spray every year, because it pays us. 

 We do not want to wait until we have got diseased trees. 

 You ought to get Mr. Hale to give you a few figures about 

 spraying. Our people believe that it is necessary and profit- 

 able to spray every year, but the point with us was we 

 wanted to make it easy for every man to spray. So we took 

 up the question of the cost of supplies to spray with. The 

 association got prices from different places. We wrote 

 around to the supply houses and got their prices, and by 

 buying in quantities we got a good price. If one maker gives 

 us twenty-five per cent off, we simply give the stuff to the 

 grower at twenty off. Take the item of sulphur. One man 

 was talking about the price of sulphur here yesterday. No. 

 1 sulphur. I believe somebody said it was about one and a 

 half here. It costs us $1.37 per hundred pounds. We give it 

 to the growers at $1.50 per hundred pounds. We keep it on 

 hand. It costs you possibly in this country a little less 

 The tariff goes against us. It is costing you, I guess, about 

 eight dollars a barrel. It will cost at least one dollar a barrel 

 here more, and often a dollar and a half a barrel to distribute 

 it. The association in any district can make a saving on that 

 of at least a dollar a barrel, and by doing that you can de- 

 crease the cost of your spraying materials, and get a better 

 grade of materials, I think, beside. You are enabled to get a 

 better grade, because if you have among your members some 

 men that have no knowledge or experience in buying, they 

 will not buy to as good advantage as an experienced buyer 

 can. By buying in large quantities through the association 

 in that way you have a friend who is doing the best he can 

 to save you money. Get a good man to do the buying and 

 he will save you money. It is not always the man who talks 

 the loudest that will make the best buyer. Some men who 

 are the poorest are the ones who will talk the loudest. But 

 you can find among you someone who has had experience, 



