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pounds, and 1 beliexe two pounds will do as effective work and 

 1 think you will tind it will not rust the fruit so niuch ; if vou 

 kee]) this mixture well stirred you will find it will not burn 

 your foliage. There are some things on the market that will 

 burn the foliage; the person using spra}dng mixtures must 

 know his business; he must know the conditions; he can't take 

 somebody's else advice and succeed unless he knows some- 

 thing about the conditions. If a man tells him how to do the 

 work he should not commence until he thoroughly understands 

 it. After studying it he is more apt to succeed. 



Question : Is there an^•thing about the blue vitriol that 

 is poisonous to animals when used for spraying? 



Mr. Cox : I have a friend up in Michigan who had an 

 old horse 25 vears old that he wanted to get rid of; he had 

 turned it out to pasture in the orchard where he had been 

 spraying the trees, thinking possibly that might do the work, 

 but instead of killing the old horse he said it continued to grow 

 fat and flourished on it right along. 



Question ; How many gallons of water do you use to 

 three pounds of vitriol? 



]\Ir. Cox : 50 gallons. 



Question : How much lime do you recommend with the 

 blue vitriol? 



Mr. Cox : We have always used five pounds of lime and 

 I think that is better than three pounds. 



The Ohio experiment station made some tests in my or- 

 chards last year for codling moth with the following results; 



TESTS FdR COILING MOTH IN ORCHARD OF U. T. COX, 1906. 



Plot 1 



Arsenate of 



lead 



o lbs. to 0(1 gal. water 



Plot 3 

 Disparene 



