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Ordinary barrel pump. There are several good makes. . 

 I use the Douglas. 



Q. "What kind of a nozzle? 



The Friend nozzle wastes less material and covers the 

 branches more thoroughly. In the summer time we use this . 

 nozzle for lower limbs and the Bordeaux nozzle for the high- 

 er limbs. 



Q. About how much ground was covered by the foli- 

 age? 



The foliage in this orchard very nearly covered all the 

 ground, the branches nearly touched each other. I have to 

 cut them back each year. 



Q. What kind of apples are they? 



Baldwins. One of these 19 year old trees had 10 barrels 

 of apples on it. 



Q. If your trees were thirty-five feet apart, would you 

 use it all for orchard, or put a part into a crop? 



I should put it all into apples. I don't think you can 

 raise two crops on the same ground and get good results. 



Q. What if you have a heavy crop of clover in June and 

 then have a drought? 



I shall probably lose by it. 



Q. Do you do any thinning? 



No; not any. 



Q. Do you expect to control the scale better by using 

 oil than by lime-sulfur? 



I used lime-sulfur on peaches and nearly wiped the scale 

 out last year, so this year I am going to see what results I 

 can get from using oil on the apple orchard. I scraped 

 these trees and when I took the old bark off I found consid- 

 erable scale under the bark. 



Q. Suppose you use miscible oil and the weather is 

 cold? 



Some Scalecide man can tell about that better than I 

 can. I don't want to put oil on peach trees with the ther- 

 mometer under 50°, but if it freezes afterwards I do not 

 know that it would injure them much. 



Mr. Keyes : What becomes of the scale on the bark that 

 you scraped off? 



It dries up and dies. 



Mr, Whitney: We elect officers this afternoon and I 

 move ttat we appoint a nominating committee of five to- 



