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tion will determine whether or not the buds are suceessful. 



Mr. Frost. How late in the fall do you cultivate? 



Mr. Henry. A good deal later than we used to. We 

 used to cultivate deeper and start early; now W3 do it shal- 

 low and a longer time. It isn't really cultivation, but it 

 simply scratching the top, moving it and cultivating it just 

 as many times as we can. 



Mr. Frost, How late? 



Mr. Henry. Until we can't get through the trees any 

 more. 



Mr. Frost. What sort of implements do you find best 

 for your purposes ? 



Mr. Henry. We use weeders entirely. We have never 

 had a spring tooth. Our land is so stony we can't use the 

 cutaway. We use the weeder. 



A Member. What is a good gang plow? 



Mr. Henry. I don't like to advertise tools before a 

 meeting like this, but if you ask me personally I will tell 

 you. I think it is a pretty poor plan for a speaker to got 

 up before a meeting and run down one and boost another. 



Mr. Carr. Do you prefer the cutaway, to the plow ? 



Mr. Henry. I should like to use it, but the land up 

 there is so stony we can't. The cutaway is a fine tool. 



The President. Are there any other questions? Now, 

 on the subject which was to have been presented by Dr. 

 Whetzell, "Substitution of Lime-Sulfur for Bordeaux," Mr. 

 Castner has consented to speak a few words on the question. 



SUBSTITUTION OF LIME-SULFUR FOR BORDEAUX 



Mr. Chairman : I am merely going to open the subject 

 of the substitution of lime-sulfur for Bordeaux. I don't 

 know what the eastern ideas are on this question, but I will 

 give you a little history of our use of both in Hood River. 

 Years ago. up until about five or six years ago lime-suliur 

 was practically unknown as a fungicide. Everybody Avas 

 using the Bordeaux mixture, known as the 12-12-50. There 

 are sume fmigus diseases that lime-sulfur will take the place 

 of Bordeaux, and some on which it won't. You take, for 

 instance, the apple scab, that fungus which works in tho 

 summer time and which practically works in the winter, too, 

 lime-sulfur will have some results the same as Bordeaux, but 



