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told bv a professor, after a somewhat thorough inspection 

 of tlie orchard in October, that while he could not swear 

 there was not a live scale in the orchard, he would say that 

 he had not found one. We sprayed nine thousand trees, 

 five, six and seven years old, at an expense, including total 

 cost of pumps, rental of engine, charging full day wages for 

 men, and horses, including all materials used, of four and 

 nine-tenths cents per tree. 



The Vice President : Mr. Charles E. Lyman of Mid- 

 dlefield will now please come forward and give us the benefit 

 of his experience. 



Mr. Lyman : I only have a few^ words to say, Mr. Presi- 

 dent. 



The Vice President: Well, we do not want to lose a 

 single word, and I think you had better come forward. 



Mr, Lyman : Something over a year ago, along in Sep- 

 tember, I found that we were badly infested with the scale. 

 It had not come to my notice before. Some of our trees 

 were so badly infested that they were gone by. They were 

 so badly infested that there was quite a portion of them 

 worthless, and many of them died before the next spring. 

 I found upon consulting with the Experiment Station people, 

 with Prof. Britton and others, that the lime, sulphur and 

 salt, or lime and sulphur preparation, was the best thing to 

 use, and so we prepared ourselves for doing the job in the 

 early spring. I will not go into detail, because your time is 

 valuable, and what has already been told by the previous 

 speakers would cover our experience somewhat ; but we used 

 the salt in our mixture in all cases. I think our job was a 

 more expensive job, or at least it proved so, than the work 

 which was done by Mr. Hale, and by Mr. Hopson of the 

 Highland Orchard Company, but the results were very grat- 

 ifying. I saw no indication of the scale in the past season, 

 and I imagine it will not be necessary to spray again this 

 year. At least I hope not. The expense was quite heavy. 

 I presume on the average, on a good sized peach tree, say 

 from six to seven years old, it would average ten cents to 

 the tree. I thought we were making a thorough job of it, 

 and to do that perhaps we used more material than was abso- 

 lutely necessary. You can save on your second job over 



