SIXrEENTII ANNUAL MEETING. 105 



a meeting of this kind because it seems like advertising. I 

 wish simply to say a few words ^regarding our production, — 

 but first to say that 1 am a Connecticut boy two generations 

 removed and so I feel at home here, \\dien I first went into 

 the business I didn't know anything about San Jose scale, 

 except that it killed 20 apple trees in my little orchard. I 

 didn't know what to do, and when I did find out what to do it 

 was too late; they were dead; unfortunately, 95 per cent of 

 the fruit trees in New Jersey went the same way. We used 

 to have all the apples we wanted only 6 or 7 years ago; our 

 children can remem1)er the time, but now we have to buy our 

 apples. 



We must not underrate the fight we have on hand. I am 

 glad to say there is more interest being taken this year than 

 last year in the subject of the San Jose scale. Regarding our 

 preparation, there has been on preparation, no remedy for the 

 scale has received so much favor in so short a time as the 

 soluble oils. It is a pleasant and an easy task to use solul)le 

 oils. Fill your spray tank v^dth water, measure out the amount 

 of oil you need, pour the same in the tank and start your agita- 

 tor, and you are ready for work. If you have some left in 

 the tank it is all ready for use the next day. If >'oiir mixture 

 of lime, sulphur and salt is not all used it has to l)e thrown 

 awav. There is no getting away from the fact that our 

 preparation absolutely kills the scale. You should use high 

 power and a fine noz/de and cover every part of the tree; if 

 you use a low power pump and coarse nozzle you will not get 

 the same good results. 



Professor C. S. Phelps of Connecticut was the closing 

 speaker and emphasized Connecticut's advantages in tht fol- 

 lowing words : 



I notice that some of our W^estern friends are beginning to 

 see some of the great things that belong to Connecticut, — our 

 soil. Connecticut conditions are not so difi'erent from those 

 vou find in other parts of the United States, but somehow 

 there is an attractiveness about our hills that no one seems able 

 to lose when he has once seen them. 1 believe we have con- 

 ditions in this State favorable to the ])roduction of the best 

 crops of fruit, and I do not except Colorado or Oregon, — and 



