i6S THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



clams is farming or fishing?" (laughter). Some of the 

 things that they know so all fired much about, in a year or 

 two we shall know whether what they have been telling us 

 about killing the scale is worth our powder, or whether they 

 have been filling us up with something that they thought 

 they knew all about (laughter). Yet we need them in the 

 work just the same. 



Up to the present time the lime, sulphur and salt mix- 

 ture, boiled about as long as has been indicated here (thirty 

 minutes is about enough), is just the right thing I think. In 

 mixing up the sulphur, so as to make a paste, I think is all 

 unnecessary. If you can turn your lime into the boiling 

 water, and then dump the sulphur into it, so you will not 

 burn the life out of that sulphur, or melt it down, and then 

 in the course of about twenty-five minutes boil it hard, you 

 will get a mixture that will do some good. 



It is not such a big job to spray, as Brother Barnes states, 

 if you know how to go at it. Of course, it costs a good deal 

 for a pump and the spraying nozzles and for lines of hose, 

 and for everything that is necessary. Of course, it costs 

 considerable to start with, but it is worth all it costs, and it 

 is something you can not afiford to neglect. If you have got 

 any number of trees it does not cost so very much per tree. 

 I think somebody said here that last year it cost something- 

 like six cents a tree, but last year our cost was down to about 

 three and a half cents. And that was right here in Con- 

 necticut. In Georgia, where the tree grows larger, the cost 

 was something less than two cents per tree. Of course, you 

 know I am speaking about peach trees. I do not know very 

 much about anything else. 



Now, Mr. President, Brother Barnes has given us a good 

 talk on the conditions right here in Connecticut, which is the 

 thing we more especially want to know about, and I don't 

 know as there is anything more for me to say. But you 

 have got to spray if you expect to raise peaches in Con- 

 necticut. 



The Vice President: Mr. Hopson of WalHngford. 

 Will Mr. G. A. Hopson come forward? 



Mr. Hopson : The Highland Fruit Company, which I 

 represent, is located in the easterly part of Wallingford. and 



