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the Rme, I presume you would get more heat in this way.. 

 I am better satisfied to throw the lime into four or five pails 

 of hot water. The only objection in making in this way is- 

 that when you put your sulfur in it does not mix readily,, 

 but if kept stirring this is soon overcome. 



Question. (Stockwell). Do you add more water? 



Ans. Not unless it is too thick. We boil and then 

 strain through screen netting and then add enough cold, 

 water to bring up to 40 gallons. If it is too thick it does 

 not do as good work. The only difference between com- 

 mercial sulfur and sulfur flour is that the flour is more re- 

 fined. The price of the commercial is far less. 



Question. Is it advisable to try to spray large trees- 

 with lime-sulfur wash, trees that are 35 feet high ? 



Ans. I should if I wanted to grow apples and had 

 the trees, but I think I should cut those trees down and get 

 them down nearer to the ground. Out in the Hudson Valley 

 I had a grower who had a number of large trees infested 

 by scale, but he could not get up into the tops, so he went 

 in and headed them down. Now he has a very successful 

 orchard. If Prof. Melaney is right about his method of 

 killing the coddling moth, we must either cut or get up into 

 the air. 



Mr. Eaee : There has been no spraying done in Berk- 

 shire County that I know of. The preparation is so pain- 

 ful that they won't use it. You are talking to people who 

 will use the commercial mixture. Now is there not some- 

 thing that these people can buy that will kill out the scale?" 

 That is what I want to know, what I shall say when I go 

 home. The largest grower there is going to use Scalecide 

 because he will not bother to make a lime-sulfur wash. 



Ans. I am willing to talk about any kind of spraying- 

 and I thought I made reference to commercial lime-sulfur 

 washes which can be bought all ready to be applied and 

 diluted and used. I have used lime-sulfur wash but I don't 

 think it is the only thing on earth. The miscible oils can 

 be purchased and diluted and applied, and if applied thor- 

 oughly you can kill the scale. I would advocate the use of 

 a miscible oil to the man who was determined not to use a 

 lime-sulfur wash. I prefer, however, just a little, to use a 

 lime-sulfur wash — I don't care whether home- made or 

 bought, but if a man will not use it, use something else^ 



