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can on another with the sulphur wash, provided you hit it, but 

 the whole thing depends on thoroughness, as the gentleman 

 who preceded me said. It is the little attention to details : it 

 is the little things that you must look after. If you have got 

 a good boy, you can depend on him all right, but don't de- 

 pend on those boys that are likely to be careless in the mat- 

 ter, for it is the attention to details that counts. There never 

 was a time, in mv judgment, when it was so advisable to plant 

 trees, and at the same time so unfavorable, as the present, 

 for this scale is a serious matter that confronts the fruit men. 

 ^Millions and millions of trees have been killed by it, and 

 there are millions more on the way, and more to follow. The 

 scale is here, and here to sta}-, and we have got to meet it ; and 

 if we meet it, and meet it as successfully as we can do, our 

 success is assured from a money standpoint. In other words, 

 the man that will grow fruit and grow it good, will get paid 

 for the labor that it costs him to grow it, and the heedless, care- 

 less man will be put out of business, and the man that will 

 grow it good it is going to make it pay. I have no hesi- 

 tation ; I have ordered several thousand trees to plant this 

 spring. I believe I can hold it in check. There are men tliat 

 claim they can eradicate it. Perhaps you may have noticed in 

 the Rural Ne%v Yorker a criticism on me, in my reply to an arti- 

 cle in that paper that made the statement that a person had erad- 

 icated the scale from an apple tree with one application of K-L. 

 I don't believe the man lives that can go into an apple orchard 

 and kill the scale with one application of K-L or an}' otiier 

 mixture. I have had some experience with the oil mixtures; 

 I used the K-L ; I used it in a small way. I know Professor 

 Root — he is a conservative man, and what he states, he hon- 

 estly believes — and I have had several talks with him and 

 what he says goes with me, generally, and it did with me 

 in this case, and I came pretty near risking thousands of 

 trees to the K-L mixture. I tried the K-L, and I made the 

 solution myself. I used 20 per cent, kerosene to 150, and I 

 used the limoid the kind that he directed I must get. I have 

 got as trustworthy a boy as ever lived, but I wouldn't trust 

 him to do that, and so I made that combination myself, and I 

 say beyond all question there was thorough mixture and a 



