FIFTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 53 



going' to look after it and kcc]) track of it, bnt the man who is 

 going into commercial orcharding must, of necessity, have 

 trained men. First he must train himself and when he has 

 done that he must train others. The hrst thing I would do 

 when T get a pump or one of your tanks, would be to tear 

 it all to pieces and put it together again, and that is what you 

 want to do with a gasolene engine, and that is what you are 

 obliged to do ; sooner or later you have got to know how it 

 works, and study it. The watchword for the orchardists in the 

 country to-day then, is, "watch and spray." 



\\'e had at our agricultural society on the peninsula some 

 exhibits of apples from Connecticut, some from New Jersey, 

 and some from Maryland, and a number from our own state 

 of Delaware, and one man's product stood far and above 

 anything else that was there, and that fruit had been sprayed 

 from early in the spring until late in the fall, so late he was 

 obliged to wipe the specimens after picking, and T never 

 saw such polish except on Oregon or Colorado fruit, or at 

 the exhibit at St. Louis Exposition. To reach that result meant 

 more than spraying, of course ; I don't want to leave that in 

 your minds as though spraying was everything, but some one 

 else will take up the cutltivation and the pruning and all that 

 goes with making of a perfect apple. With that, ladies and 

 gentlemen, T will close. I thank you. 



Discussion. 



A Mi:.\i i!i:r : Just a word about the value of K-L and 

 the lime-salt and sulphur mixture. Your professor down 

 there in Delaware has been quite an advocate of the K-L, 

 and he still believes it is the thing. Do you w'ish to draw a 

 comparison ? 



Mr. Derby : Yes, sir. I wish to. Personally I am going 

 to use the sulphur mixture, because I can get results from 

 it. and my men don't object to it. Personally I am not going 

 to use any oil at all as long as I can avoid it. In the first 

 place I don't like to pay tribute to Rockefeller ; in the second 

 place it is a dangerous thing to handle around a tree in any 

 form, but I do think that it is a remedy that can be used 

 and used with safety in intelligent hands. T gave an explana- 



