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ing with arsenate of lead for browntail, last season I spray- 

 ed on the coddling moth. The orchard I sprayed the first 

 time hadn't hardly a browntail in the whole orchard, but I 

 didn't spray considerable many of them, so I laid it to the 

 arsenate of lead killing the browntail. Speaking of poison^ 

 I keep sheep in one of the orchards. Well, the next day af- 

 ter I sprayed once the grass was all white. A man, not 

 knowing anything about it, turned the sheep in there the 

 next morning. I got home that night and my wife said, 

 "Did you tell that man to turn the sheep in?" And I said, 

 "I did not," and she says "I expect you will have a lot of 

 dead sheep there." But there wasn't a dead sheep. 



Mr. Frost. I don't want to be misunderstood from my 

 explanation of spraying for browntails, that the arsenate of 

 lead will hurt the apples. It may simply hurt the sale of 

 them. And in regard to the poisoning of animals, I don't 

 think you will have any trouble except with the cows, but 

 be very careful about letting your cows eat grass that has 

 been sprayed. Horses and sheep and hens can stand a great 

 deal of it, but cows will stand very little of arsenate of lead. 



Mr. Brown of Connecticut. We have been spraying 

 down our way for ten years. We have used the usual form- 

 ula, the Bordeaux mixture and the usual amount of arsenate. 

 We have used this mixture with paris green and have got 

 it on our orchar*ds right now and yve have used it at differ- 

 ent times. We have our Jersey cows out there, some pretty 

 fine Jersey cows, and every year we take our Jersey calves 

 at the first feeding and tether them out in the orchard, ty- 

 ing them to a post, and they eat all that grass and we never 

 keep them out in the spring. They are there every day and 

 they have been feeding on that for the last ten years. 



A Member. I have sprayed in pastures where they were 

 young cattle, right underneath the trees, and never had any 

 trouble yet from using four pounds of lead to a barrel of 

 water. I have put on a lot, so that the trees were dripping 

 with it. 



Mr. Ellsworth. I notice that your President has come 

 into the room. President Maynard, if you will come and 

 take the chair. 



I don't wish to cut off any discussion or any experiences 

 you have had with poison, whether it will kill or won't; but 

 be a little careful, at the same time. 



A Member. I would like to ask the latest date you 



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