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sulfur, and if any of you are interested you can get the num- 

 bers and can write to the experiment station and get them. 

 If there are any points I haven't made clear I shall be very 

 .glad to answer anything on the question of spraying. 



Mr. Barber. Is there anything in spraying apple trees 

 that will injure the fruit or prevent the fruit from keeping? 

 Last year I sprayed for the first time and had the best look- 

 ing apples I ever had, firm and solid, but they never kept so 

 poorly as last year. Was it the season, or the spraying? 



Mr. Henry. I think it has been proven that apples that 

 have been sprayed will keep a great deal better than apples 

 that have not been sprayed ; at least, it has been our experi- 

 ence that our sprayed fruit has kept a good deal better, and 

 I know that when the buyers come through the neighbor- 

 hood one of the first questions, they ask is whether the fruit 

 has been sprayed, and if it has not been sprayed they say 

 they will have to make a discount, because the spraying has 

 the result of making them keep a whole lot better. 



Mr. E. F. Adams. Can you spray so as to catch the 

 browntail when they first hatch out, and not injure the 

 fruit. 



Mr. Henry. I am not familiar with the browntail. I 

 am glad to say we haven't got that. We have enough oth- 

 er troubles, but we haven't got that. I never saw them. 



A Member. Could hydrated lime be used for making 

 the summer spray of lime-sulfur? 



Mr. Henry. I have 10 tons and I am going to try it this 

 summer, but I have never used it yet. 



A Member. Do you think that the hot season of last 

 year had anything to do with these results? 



Mr, Henry. I wouldn't be at all surprised. I know 

 that the apples often ripened up ahead of time and that 

 they were picked really after they ought to have been, 

 and that may have had a good deal to do with the fruit 

 not keeping, and so it was not on account of the spraying. 

 I think it was more the forwardness of the season and the 

 apples perhaps being over-ripe or being put into storage 

 too warm or left out too long before storing. 



A Member. I would like to ask if anybody here in the 

 audience has practiced spraying so as to kill the browntails 

 by the last spraying, or whether it is a dangerous treatment 

 to try, in regard to spoiling the fruit, and so forth? I 



