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thorough distribution and yet enough power back of it so 

 you can direct it, because you have got not only to take care 

 of your blossoms on the outside, but should be able to throw 

 the spray down in and get at the inside blossoms, and if 

 your spray is so fine that it simply drifts' it is beyond con- 

 trol; you don't get enough into the blossoms that are away 

 in, so I would say a moderate drive and a good distribution. 

 I use one if the disc nozzles, but I don't care to designate. 

 The Friend is good. Personally. I prefer to have a moder- 

 ately large hole, because you get a little coarser spraj' which 

 you can place more nearly where you want it. 



MR. MURPHY. Mr. Sessions spoke of a young man 

 starting out to spray young trees. Now, he would probably 

 have some other trees on his place which would need it. 

 What would be the extra expense of spraying the young 

 trees over the others. 



DR. FELT. Not very much. 



MR. MURPHY. Then why run the risk? 



THE PRESIDENT. I will state to the gentlemen 

 present that the officers of the Association anticipated just 

 these things, and that is why we got Mr. Margeson here to 

 tell his experiences. Mr. Margeson is producing more from 

 five acres than a lot of men in New England are who have 

 planted 50 acres. They haven't got a bank account nor 

 have they got a good orchard, and Mr. Margeson has got 

 both! We have discussed this subject, and we feel that one 

 of the duties of the Association is to try to teach the begin- 

 ner not to plant more than he can take care of thoroughly. 

 My personal experience is that nearly all of us plant more 

 than we can take care of well, and lose in the end. and in 

 planting in the future I shall not plant any more than I can 

 spray at all times from one year up as they require it. 



MR.. PARMELEE. I would like to ask if birds or bats 

 or anything of that sort would help eat up insects and bugs 

 that grow on trees, enough so to encourage their growth. 



DR. FELT. Birds are very important friends of the 

 farmer, generally speaking. I have been interested in 

 looking up that phase, more particularly in connection with 

 an outbreak of leaf eaters in the forests, because there much 

 depends -on a natural check. Back in 1899 there was esti- 

 mated to be a decrease of approximately 45 per cent in the 



