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to give you. I want you to feel perfectly free to ask ques- 

 tions and stop me at any time, and we will go over any 

 point. Oftentimes when I go to these meetings and a per- 

 son gets up and speaks I wonder if he is really in the busi- 

 ness or if he is receiving his money from some outside source. 

 Now, personally I will say that we are in the fruit business 

 on a strictly commercial plan. Our farm is run to pay, has 

 got to pay its own way; no money coming in from any out- 

 side sources. I live on the farm myself and I have always 

 worked on a farm and always hope to be able to. I think 

 there is no business in which a person derives so much 

 pleasure and at the same time can have a reasonable income 

 as he can from the fruit business. We came from the west 

 to New England to raise fruit because I had previously 

 worked in New England and I believed in it. We could 

 have gone west just as well as come east, but I believe the 

 east has certain advantages, namely, in the markets, in 

 transportation and in the soil, which place it far ahead of 

 anything in the west. (Applause). 



Well, we will have to get at this spraying problem. I 

 don't know of any better way than to follow it through, 

 than to go on the fruit farm and start in the spraying and 

 follow the seasons right on. all the way through. Perhaps 

 we will get all the spraying in that way and hit most of 

 the important points. The thing that brought this spray- 

 ing before the country perhaps as much as anything was 

 the San Jose scale. This came into the country from eight to 

 ten years ago. perhaps longer, and killed a good many trees. 

 If I had old apple trees or pear trees or peach trees and they 

 were badly incrusted with scale I should use oil on them. 

 There are several good oils on the market and also several 

 which are not good and which have done a lot of harm ; and 

 the harm which the poor ones have done has hurt the reputa- 

 tion of the good ones. But, as I say, if the trees are old 

 '»nd rough bark and covered with scale I should certainly 

 use oil on them for the first spraying. If the trees are in 

 good condition perhaps a dose of lime-sulfur will keep them 

 all right. Most of the fruit growers are familiar with the 

 regular old-fashioned lime-sulfur or, as it is sometimes 

 called, the 15-20-50 formula, so I don't think it is neces- 

 sary to go over that as most of you are familiar with it. 

 Something that has come on the market rather lately is the 

 commercial lime-sulfur. It has a good many advantages 

 over the old-fashioned ; it can be kept indefinitely in barrels, 



