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pretty good job if you are careful. That is sulphur and lime 

 mixture. I am happy to say I haven't had to use much of it. 

 But some are using it thoroughly and think that it is worth while 

 to do it as a fungicide. 



The sulphur is the only material which we use that is an 

 insecticide and fungicide of any value. The scale is a live in- 

 sect all the time although quiet a part of the year. The mixing 

 of the sluphur and lime is the worst of it. If it is carefully 

 prepared it will do reasonably well. Kerosene preparations 

 sprayed on the trees are a little easier to operate and so far 

 seem to show that they are going to take care of the scale per- 

 haps as well as the sulphur and lime, but they are worth noth- 

 ing as a fungicide. 



I suppose the growers in this State are rather north of the 

 scale belt, because I hear you don't have it in the State — so you 

 may think. You don't know that, and the first thing you will 

 know of it is you have a thousand colonies of it all over the 

 southern part of the State. You will never know it — unless you 

 have somebody watch for it that does know it — until the pest is 

 so plenty that it is beyond all control to handle with any certainty 

 whatever. That is just exactly the experience our people have 

 had in southern Connecticut. It comes in before you are aware 

 of it and when you think there is no possible way for it to come. 

 I live in the northeastern part of the State. The county that I 

 live in has very few orchards or men who are planting. As a 

 result it has not been brought into that part of the State. At the 

 College we are buying tre^s — getting new varieties — all the time 

 and have been very careful to watch and keep clear of it, yet 

 along in July or the first of August this year, we found a lot of 

 currant bushes covered and where it came from I cannot tell or 

 cannot imagine. I don't know that there is any within ten miles. 

 About ten miles south there is plenty. It might have been brought 

 from there by birds. If they left but one, that was enough. 

 They are there now by millions. You have no idea of its propa- 

 gation when it starts ; and you can't see it, unless you are inform- 

 ed, until it has covered the plants thoroughly. I do not think 

 you are entirely north of where it is going to live. You are not 

 colder here than it is in Michigan, or in Central Michigan, or in 

 the northern part of New York, or in Massachusetts, and it is 

 pretty sure to come. You will get it on the imported trees if 



