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2. The people on their part should provide means to meet 

 the State (through the college) at least half way, in the solu- 

 tion of these problems. 



3. Financial support by those most vitally interested in the 

 solution of the problem is the surest means of enlisting their 

 interest and in establishing practical methods for disease control. 



4. With the financial support of those who have problems 

 to be solved we are enabled to meet the demands of a much 

 larger number of our constituency than under the old plan, 



5. If it is worth nothing to the grower in dollars and cents 

 of his own money to have these problems investigated, then it 

 is not proper for the college to spend the State's money for that 

 purpose. And if it is worth something to the grower in dollars 

 and cents then he should be expected to put money into it. 



6. During the growing season the field where the problem 

 lies rather than the college is the important place for the prose- 

 cution of these investigations. 



Many other sound reasons for such a cooperation will occur 

 to you if you will give the matter some thought. The hearty 

 support which our growers have given the scheme and the 

 marked results we have obtained in a short time are ample 

 justification of this new type of cooperation. I hasten to a 

 consideration of some of the results which we have to ofifer. 



RESULTS. 



At the winter meeting of our State Fruit Growers' Associa- 

 tion in 1909, at which there were at least 500 growers present, 

 in presenting a summary of the then known data on lime- 

 sulphur as a summer spray, I asked those who expected to use 

 lime-sulphur the following season instead of bordeaux for 

 summer spraying of their apples, to stand. Only one or two 

 arose and that with some hesitation. During that season and the 

 next our investigations on the use of lime-sulphur as a sum- 

 mer spray were carried out by Mr. Wallace on the Niagara 

 Sprayer Company Fellowship. At the winter meeting in 1911, 

 after two seasons' evidence on the use of lime-sulphur. I called 

 on those who still propose:l to use bordeaux to stand up. Of 

 the one thousand odd growers present only two or three arose. 

 Thus completely had the practice of our growers as regards 



