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A Member : What do you spray with the last three 

 times ? 



Mr. Castner : Arsenate of lead, which is for the 

 worms. 



A Member : After the second time you do not use 

 anything but lead? 



Mr. Castner : In the first spray we use one to thirty 

 of lime and sulphur, with one to three of arsenate of lead. 

 We use arsenate of lead right along and find it does the 

 work. We find that the lead, works with the lime and sul- 

 phur better than any other mixture we have tried. 



A Member : Do you use any Bordeaux or Bordeaux 

 combination ? 



Mr. Castner : Xo sir, they have given up almost en- 

 tirely using Bordeaux, for the simple reason of the rusting 

 of the fruit. We found that if we used Bordeaux we were 

 pretty apt to get the burn and scalding. With lime and sul- 

 phur we get some, but it does not amount to much. Take 

 it on a hot afternoon, and on apples on the south and south- 

 west side of the trees where they are exposed to the sun, 

 and sprayed at that time, you will get it even with water. 

 We have tried that experiment ourselves. So all of the 

 burning you get is not due entirely to the spray used. 



A Member : How many pounds of arsenate of lead 

 do vou use to fifty gallons of water? 



Mr. Castner : Three pounds. 



A Member : You use the neutral lead, so-called ? 



Mr. Castner : It has always been said that we used 

 the neutral lead. I do not know exactly about that. We 

 have used it now for six or seven years, and have been suc- 

 cessful with it. 



A Member : Do you ever hear of any talk of over- 

 production out there? 



Mr. Castner : Some, but net very much. There is 

 land there that will never produce apples except for the pur- 

 pose of catching suckers, and they are biting every day. 

 (Laughter.) But you put that land up to six or seven hun- 



