FOURTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 167 



Manv of us, doubtless, have been hopin,2^ that we would 

 not have a job of spraying on hand, but the probability is 

 that we have got the scale, that it is there, and that we do 

 not know it. That, if true, makes it necessary for us to 

 be very watchful and to learn of its presence as soon as possi- 

 ble. Now, when you go to spray, and it is not such an 

 awful job after all when you once know how to do it, do the 

 job thoroughly, no matter how large your orchard is. Last 

 fall we sprayed some fifty acres, more or less, and it cost us 

 something like three hundred dollars to do it. If the job is 

 successful, we will not regret that amount of money, because 

 we get results, we believe, aside from the killing of the scale, 

 that makes the spraying of value. 



Mr. Ives: Does that three hundred dollars include the 

 spraying for the scale? 



j\Ir. Barnes: That includes the labor and the cost of the 

 material. 



Mr. Ives: Just one spraying? 



Mr. Barnes: Yes. 



The Vice President: Mr. J. H. Hale. Is Mr. Hale 

 in the room? 



Mr. J. H. Hale: Mr. President, and gentlemen, I did 

 not know that I was to be called on. I will not waste any 

 of the time by going up there and trying to make a speech 

 now, and it is not necessary for me to do it either, because 

 the question of spraying has been pretty well covered by Mr. 

 Barnes. I believe we have the scale with us everywhere in 

 the State, whether we have discovered it or not. I believe 

 from experience that the lime, sulphur and salt spray at the 

 present time is the cheapest and best remedy available, because 

 it is not only valuable for killing the scale, but it is also valu- 

 able as a fungicide, and, as we all know, is of great benefit to 

 the trees in other ways. Further than that, Mr. President, 

 we have had a whole bunch of professors here to tell us about 

 new things that we wanted to know, but the professors them- 

 selves do not know everything. They tell a story down in 

 Maine of one of these professors up there, and one day there 

 was a fellow who got up and asked him, "Professor, if you 

 know so all fired much, will vou tell me whether digging 



