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leaves came out. He used twenty per cent, strength and satur- 

 ated the trees, and shortly after that I looked it over, and it 

 was just as scaly as in the first place. I was very sorrv the 

 results were of that kind, because it is practically the only 

 thing we can use in the summer time, so I should recommend 

 we stick to our sulphur and lime until we get something better 

 in a practical way. There is only one point in the whole 

 scale business that we can bring up as new, and that is the 

 oldest point in the whole lot, that is to know the scale better. 

 Lots of people keep coming to me, and seem surprised to find 

 the scale is such a small and insignificant little thing, and 

 think it cannot do any damage. The only thing we can do 

 it to know the scale better and attack it on the start. Of 

 course it is not being eradicated, but is being- kept under 

 control in lots of orchards in the state, but I don't think we 

 need to fear it if we will study the trouble carefully and do 

 better work. 



A Member : I would like to ask Mr. Bennett if he thinks 

 it makes any difference with the lime and sulphur wash 

 whether it is cooked an hour or an hour and a half. I cooked 

 some an hour and a half to see if I could dissolve all the sul- 

 phur. 



Prof. Bennett: You won't be able to dissolve all the 

 sulphur if there is any of it in lumps ; sometimes it will stay 

 there forever, but if you g"et the lumps out and have good 

 lime, you ought to dissolve it in an hour. 



A Member: I bought the best lime I could buy, and made 

 a paste of the sulphur before I put it in. 



Prof. Bennett: 1 don't believe there is any advantage in 

 boiling it over an hour. Most of us boil 65 or 70 minutes. 

 I would like to say this in regard to the limoid. Mr. Derby 

 stated that this supefine product was sent to my men that 

 were experimenting with it, and I would like to say we had 

 the superfine product to use in our experiments, and the 

 results were not as satisfactory as the lime-sulphur mixture. 



Mr. Derby : In regard to making the sulphur mixture, 

 we have been dropping off all the salt, and using simply sul- 

 phur and lime, and we get just as good results leaving the 



