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Mr. Ives : I would like to inquire how that is mixed. 



Prof. Powell : I think that the formula calls for 40 pounds 

 of sulphur to 20 pounds of lime and 15 pounds of salt. It is 

 boiled and then diluted, and then added to 150 gallons of water. 

 The lime and sulphur are boiled together for an hour until 

 thoroughly dissolved and then the other is added and boiled for 

 five or ten minutes additional. In the experiment which was 

 tried in New Jersey a different formula was used in which the 

 proportions of lime and sulphur w^ere larger. I think it was 

 stated that it cost one cent a gallon when using the larger 

 amount of chemicals. 



The President : Professor Powell is ready now with his 

 address, and if you will be seated so far as possible, so as not 

 to make any noise by moving around, we will proceed. This 

 lecture is on "Cover Crops and Soil Conditions in Orchards." 



Cover Crops and Soil Conditions in Orchards. 



By Prof. G. Harold Powell, Assisfanl Poinologist U. S. Departuient 



of Agriculture. 



Mr. President, and Members of the Coiiiieefieiif Pouwlogical 

 Society: 



I can assure you it gives me a great deal of pleasure to meet 

 with the fruit growers of Connecticut, and to take part in the 

 various discussions here concerning fruit growing. This is a 

 time of very rapid activities in all lines of business, and the 

 fruit grower who is walling to stay at home and depend upon 

 his own resources alone for success is mighty apt to get left. 

 The most successful fruit growers are the men who have studied 

 their business, and who have kept up abreast of the new develop- 

 ments and practices of the times, as those things have a direct 

 bearing upon their business. These conventions are among the 

 most active influences, it seems to me, in educating the fruit 

 growers in the various new lines of work as they are brought 

 out, and it speaks well, it seems to me, for this State, that you 

 are starting out at this meeting with such a large audience as 

 you had this morning. I have been in quite a number of con- 

 ventions in the last few weeks, where I have come in contact 

 with one of your well known sons of Connecticut, and if I had 

 believed all that was said to me, I should have begun to think 



