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yet it may cause injury to the trees. Tar from certain places 

 ma}- cause injury, while that from other sources is safe. I 

 think it would he well to try a few trees at first, so as to make 

 sure that your tar is all right. 



Mr. Lutton : Professor Britten made a statement a few 

 minutes ago in regard to the use of paint, which possibly 

 might be misleading. He stated that I said that ordinary 

 paint would be efifcctive against the borer. Ordinary paint 

 would be apt to kill your trees. You want the very best qual- 

 ity of white lead. If you do not get the best quality, injury 

 is apt to result. So you want to be very careful if you arc 

 going to use white lead and oil, to get the pure stuff. 



. A jMember : How are }ou going to know^ if }ou have got 

 the pure stuff? 



Mr. Lufton : I do not know except to go to some first- 

 class dealer. I should go to some first-class dealer and get 

 a good quality of white lead and linseed oil, and mix it up 

 yourself. 



Prof. Brixton : I would like to ask !vlr. Lupton how 

 would it do to put in a Ittle Paris green in that when you 

 mix it up ? 



Mr. Lupton : I suppose that that would not do any harm. 

 It certainly would not do any harm. 



Prof. Britton : If you put in Paris green, and put in 

 enough of it, it would do the work. 



The President: I think we will have to draw this dis- 

 cussion to a close. We have still other speakers on this sub- 

 ject of apples which we must now call upon. 



\^'e have had an account of apple growing in Virginia, 

 and in Xew York, and now we propose to go further north 

 and east and bring on a speaker who was scheduled for the 

 first thing on the program this afternoon. Mr. Eaton, who 

 will now talk to us. comes from far away up north of us, fromi 

 Nova Scotia, and I know that he will tell us as good a story 

 as we have had from Xew York and from ^''irginia, and it 

 gives me great pleasure to introduce to you Mr. Ralph S. 

 Eaton, of Kentville, Xova Scotia, President of the Xova 

 Scotia Fruit Growers' Association, to talk to you about the 

 "Conditions and Alethods in Xova Scotia Orchards.'' 



