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ken years did a tremendous amount of damage. We had just 

 commenced to get control of the scale when the yellows got in 

 and caused a tremendous amount of damage. Well, we have 

 got over the scale scare, and I believe we will overcome the 

 yellows. 



The next thing perhaps in order of the usual diseases or 

 foes to which peach growing is subjected is the borer. The 

 peach borer is a very serious menace to our voung trees. In 

 1911 it was perhaps worse. All over the Carolinas, North 

 Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, it did a great deal of dam- 

 age. The only thing is to dig them out and kill them. Of 

 course, you can do a little when the mother moth is flying. i)ut 

 after all you have got to inspect every tree, locate them, and 

 then dig out the borers and g"et rid of them. 



The leaf curl, which affects the later varieties far more 

 than the early white varieties, is a serious foe sometimes, and 

 some seasons is worse than others. Before we sprayed at all 

 there was not any way to control it, but by spraying with Bor- 

 deaux mixture we are able to control the leaf curl, and now 

 we are using the lime-sulphur for killing the San Jose scale, 

 and this also acts as a fungicide. 



The next on the list is the San Jose Scale. It is a foe, 

 but it is of so little significance compared with the retail dealer 

 and some of these other things I have mentioned that it is 

 hardly to be considered. W'e want to spray to control the leaf 

 curl, and we want to spray to control the brown rot, and by 

 using lime and sulphur in the dormant season we can clean out 

 the San Jose Scale. We do not need to worry about him very 

 much more. He is a dead issue. 



And the last — I named first frost, because we practically 

 cannot control it — and the last one I am going to name is the 

 "other fellow." (Laughter). A few years ago, when the Barnes 

 Brothers, my brother and myself, and a very few others began 

 growing peaches, we were the only ones in the peach business 

 in Connecticut. We used to get a dollar and a half wholesale 

 for everything we produced. We were not permitted long, 



