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Prof. Rritton : There shouldn't he very much (Hffioulty 

 if vou s]M-ay soon after the lilossonis fall, ahout the first time 

 vou spray for the coddling- moth. 



Vice-Pkksidknt Putnam: The next topic is "Results of 

 Work Against the Scale in Some Connecticut Orchards," by 

 Prof. E. R. Bennett. Storrs Experiment Station. 



Prof. Bennett : What I have to say is not of much value 

 to us, because it is all negative. A year or so ago, when they 

 began to talk about the kerosene-limoid, it struck me there 

 was a good point to it. so last spring, when I found a man 

 who was going to use it, I volunteered to help him, and get 

 some notes on it, but our work did not prove successful. 

 Possibly, as Mr. Derby told us, the general fault with the 

 spraying is that people don't do careful enough work, and I 

 presume that is more or less true, and may be true in this 

 case, but 1 think we did as careful work as the ordinary 

 grower. I went on to this place, and we started in in April 

 on an apple orchard that was pretty "scaly," and it had been 

 sprayed the year before with sulphur and lime and been im- 

 proved, but it had not killed all the scale, and they were 

 getting pretty thick again. So we made our K-L mixture 

 twenty per cent, strength, and applied it as thoroughly as 

 we could. We didn't like the material ; in fact, the thing is 

 \Yorse to use than the lime-sulphur mixture, but it worked 

 fairly well. It bothered our nozzles. We had mixed forty 

 pounds of limoid in a barrel, and it made it pretty thick, and 

 after using a barrel or two of it the bottom had a thick mass 

 we had to empty out and throw away in order to get along at 

 all. We got over the orchard, and when we came to look 

 for results there were none. I am sorry to say that I think 

 most of the scale seemed to be doing first rate. Along in the 

 summer we thought we would try it again, and sprayed 

 some of the trees pretty thoroughly, as long as our material 

 would work, and I fail to see that it did any good ; of course 

 it killed some scale, but not enough to be satisfactory. We 

 had one other chance to see what it would do. Mr. Ives 

 had one small tree, only three or four years old, badly in- 

 fested, that he found in a new orchard. It was after the 



