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A Member. I want to say that I have used home-made- 

 lime-sulfur on peaches and I saw no perceptible damage, and 

 I used it a good deal stronger than you have mentioned. 



Mr. Henry. Yes? Well, there are some who have, 

 and there are some who haven't found danger from it. 

 Perhaps there may have been some material in ours which 

 was harmful, but I have heard of a good many who had se- 

 rious injury from using the concentrated. This is a lot nicer 

 to use, it costs less to make up and it requires very good 

 agitation and leaves quite a coating on the peach. If it 

 doesn't rain the peach looks as if it had been whitewashed 

 and you have to be careful on that account. 



One of the troubles that sometimes attacks young apple 

 trees is the aphis. These are green plant life and on young 

 trees take a pail of soap suds and bend the tops over into 

 the pail and work the top of the tree back and forth. If 

 the leaves on an apple tree are curled up there is no use try- 

 ing to spray for the aphis, because they are inside and you 

 couldn't touch them if you put a barrel of it on the trees. 

 The only way is to spray before they curl or, in case of 

 young trees, take a pail of soap suds and bend the tops over 

 into the pail and work it back and forth betAveen the hands 

 and force the suds in and kill the aphis. A couple of pails of 

 laundry soap suds will kill them as well as anything. 



I think that is perhaps all there is on the subject of 

 spraying, only that in this spraying we have got to remember 

 that fungus diseases are plenty and that when the fungus 

 disease has got started under the surface of the leaf there 

 isn't any spray which you can apply which will kill it un- 

 less you kill the leaf too. You have got to get your fungi- 

 cide on the leaf before the fungus starts to grow, so that 

 when the spore lights on the leaf and germinates it will 

 be killed by the fungicide. That is the principle on which 

 it works. In spraying for insects, for the coddling moth 

 there before the worm is hatched, because if you get at it 

 the first week, the first half week, it only takes a very 

 small amount to kill. If you wait and spray when the 

 leaves are half eaten by the canker worm they will finish 

 the tree before they die, but if your poison is all there first 

 it just takes a little bit to kill them and there isn't much 

 damage done. 



I have tried to touch upon most of the important 

 points. I have some bulletins here oa this concentrated lime 

 sulfur and some of these manufacturers, the self -boiled lime- 



