48 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY: 



obtained from it, and I am not prepared to discuss it. Mr. 

 Hale has been in that region and he may be able to give you 

 some information. 



Considerable damage has been done with us by the apple 

 borer. For the first ten years we thought the borer was not 

 causing much damage, but of late it has developed into quite 

 a pest. Of course, the treatment is as well known to you as 

 it is to us. We go over the orchard twice a year and find the 

 holes and dig them out. We also have found that an appli- 

 cation of white lead and oil is very effectual in treating them. 

 It affords protection to the trees, helps to do aw^ay with the 

 borers, and on the whole we have had ver}- good results from 

 this application. 



The San Jose scale is with us, like the Heavenly Twins, 

 I think, it has come to stay. Xo great harm has yet been 

 done, but our people are beginning to treat it with the lime, 

 sulphur and salt, and other washes, and I am inclined to think 

 we will hold the scale in check. We have a fairly good scale 

 law in Virginia that is getting into good working shape. In 

 the discussion this morning about some business before the 

 legislature, which your people are interested in, it occurred 

 to me that when your legislative committee gets to work they 

 might do well to look into the law w^e have in Virginia, 

 because we have a fairly effective law for all insect pests. 

 Your legislative committee might get some useful points 

 from it. 



If we are in a sleepy condition in the matter of growing 

 our trees, I think possibly, in the matter of picking and pack- 

 ing our fruits, and delivering our fruit to market, our methods 

 are as good as those anywhere in the East. I think possibly 

 our western growers, west of the IVIissouri River, and 

 on the Pacific Coast, may outstrip us somewhat in that 

 particular, but I know of no other fruit section of any 

 magnitude where the fruit is put down in the market 

 in any better shape than we do it. You will excuse me 

 for bragging a little about that. Picking with us begins 

 about the first of October. An eft'ort is made not to 

 allow the fruit to touch the ground at all. Portable 

 ])acking tables are provided, which are carried along with the 



