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Therefore, without following the matter up any further we 

 will go on with our program. The next speakers have been 

 chosen from among the leading growers of our State, and 

 they will tell you something about their experiences in 

 spraying for scale in Connecticut. They have all of them 

 been fighting the scale by spraying, and they are going to 

 tell us some of the practical results of their expe- 

 riences. I trust every one of them will respond. I am going 

 to ask them to come forward and occupy the stage, and to 

 be exceedingly brief in their remarks. 



The first name is that of Mr, J, N, Barnes, Wallingford. 

 Will he please come forward onto the platform where every- 

 body can see and hear him? 



]\Ir. Barnes : Mr. President, may I be excused ? The 

 time is so short. 



The X'^ice President: You can not be excused, because 

 you have done more of this work than anybody else in Con- 

 necticut. I think Mr, Barnes ought to tell us his story. 1 

 do not feel at liberty to excuse him. 



Mr. Barnes: Very well, then, Mr. President and brother 

 fruit growers, I will do the best I can. I have no specialh 

 prepared line of talk for you this morning, and it will take 

 only a moment or two for me to say what I have got to say. 



I would say that last spring we did very little spraying 

 for ourselves. Our outfit worked mostly for the benefit of 

 neighbors and friends, who were having some trouble and 

 wanted a little help. So that I can say very little about what 

 we did for ourselves last spring. I would say, however, while 

 I ani talking about last spring's work, this, in regard to a 

 neighbor's pear trees. While I did not know that they had 

 any San Jose scole on them, they had looked very badly for 

 two or three years. From presence of Pear Psylla and during 

 the season last summer I noticed that these pear trees were 

 in very fine condition. I judged it was due to the effect 

 of the lime, sulphur and salt spraying which was applied to 

 them at the same time that the peach trees were sprayed. 



Now, in regard to last fall's work, we found the neces- 

 sity of spraying an orchard containing trees that are about 

 fifteen years old. We previously did not suppose there was 

 any San Jose scale on them. It is an orchard which is 



