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Mr. Repp: Well, we are not planting any more pears, 

 but we have planted a good many Bartletts, Sickels, Lawrence 

 and Kieffer. 



Mr. Platt: Do you have anv trouble with the pear 

 blight? 



Mr. Repp : We had it very bad about three years ago, 

 but for the last two years we have had very little O'f it. I 

 think it is the basic slag that has helped to keep it off. That 

 is the only explanation I can give of it. I think it is due to 

 the use of basic slag. I have been using a fertilizer that con- 

 tains about eight per cent of phosphoric acid, but since I 

 have been using basic slag with it the blight has stopped. I 

 cannot say whether it is the basic slag or what it is, that is, 

 to speak with certainty, but the only explanation I can give 

 is that it is the slag. 



A Member : In using this one-man pump under high 

 pressure do you have any difficulty in operating the pump ? 



Mr. Repp : Not a bit. I put a man on that can do it. 



Mr. Ives : What are the advantages of using pyrox ? 

 I wish the speaker would tell us more about that. Tell us 

 the difference in the cost, and what is the satisfaction or par- 

 ticular advantage of using pyrox ? 



Mr. Repp: I can put it on so much more readily. Put 

 it on with less trouble, and the result is far ahead of anything 

 I ever used. 



Mr. Ives : Is there any trouble with its spoiling the 

 fruit ? 



Mr. Repp : Well, I think most of you have trouble with 

 most anything you use. Two years ago we had some rusting, 

 but we found it was just as bad on fruit which was not 

 sprayed at all, so we laid it to climatic conditions. In the 

 spraying we used great care. We try to get over our or- 

 chard about ten days after the Wooms drop, and then we wait 

 for two or three weeks. 



Mr. Curtiss : Plow do you fertilize your young or- 

 chards ? 



Mr. Repp: We use basic slag. 



