150 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



A Member: I wish the President of our State College 

 would speak to us. 



President Stimson : I wish to say simply this : that we 

 ask you to judge us as you judge your trees, by our fruits. 

 You know your College and the Horticultural department ; 

 nobody knows it any better. Do you think it is good ? If you 

 do, help us in our work to make the department broader and 

 1)etter. 



Discussion ok the Question List. 



President Putnam : In the short time that now remains 

 we will take up the question box and what is left on the ques- 

 tion list. Question 1 is asked for, "Where are we at in our 

 fight with the San Jose Scale?" and I will call upon Mr. C. E. 

 Lyman of Middlefield to answer it. 



Mr. Lyman : My experience is only that of two years in 

 the application of lime and sulphur. I can say that in each case 

 we have killed the scale wherever the application was made 

 thoroughly, and have had no bad results. Trees that were 

 affected by the scale and where half of the wood was dead in 

 two years the tree has renewed its growth so it is now perfect. 

 I think that all large growers in this state are united in the 

 belief that the lime and sulphur mixture is the proper spraying- 

 mixture to use. 



A Member : About the railroad worm, I would like to 

 learn what we are going to do with that. 



Dr. Britton : While we do not think we can kill this 

 insect with a poisonous spray, we do think spraying may have 

 a tendency to keep it away from the orchards. If you keep 

 your trees well sprayed it is apt to go onto your neighbor's 

 trees. The maggots also trouble the trees or get into the earth 

 around the roots. Intensive cultivation will have a tendency 

 to destroy them. 



Question No. 2 was called for, "\\'ill it prove a commercial 

 success to spray tliirty and forty-year-old apple trees for San 

 Jose Scale?" 



Mr. J. N. Barnes : I am in the position of the other man 

 who was here to learn rather than tell what I know. At the 

 present time we are up against the problem of spraying for 



