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thorough combination. I saw the boy turn the nozzle onto 

 some three-year-old apple trees that were infested, and I had 

 them go on both sides, and I never saw trees more completely 

 covered with the K-L. You will see what I said on that 

 subject. I believe it killed a few scales, but I believe they 

 put on so much solution that they were drowned ; I don't 

 believe they were killed in any other way. But, gentlemen, it is 

 not a satisfactory thing. I understand that some of the Dela- 

 ware men do not feel kindly toward me because I criticised 

 adversely the K-L wash, but that was the effect it had with me, 

 and no more K-L for me. I have use Kill-o-scale. and 

 I advise these men to use these different makes, but use 

 them experimentally only, don't depend on it to save a whole 

 orchard, but try it on a small scale. Don't make one year tests, 

 for under certain conditions it may do very well. So I say, 

 experiment with it. The lime and sulphur wash is not a 

 perfect solution, and we have got to have something better and 

 will have it ; but we have not got it yet, and it is the only safe 

 thing we have got so far. 



This matter of expense is a pretty serious thing. The 

 least I can figure the K-L is two cents and a half a gallon ; 

 that is for the making of it ready to put on the tree, and the 

 lowest I can figure up to the present for the lime and sul- 

 phur is a cent and a fifth a gallon. I have got quotations on 

 sulphur that I can get for $2.60 a hundred. Now gentlemen, 

 the next lowest solution that I know of in price to the sul- 

 phur wash is the K-L, and that is two and a half cents a 

 gallon. That is a good deal of money, and if you use the 

 "Scalacide," or "Kill-o-scale" you will find that it will cost 

 you about four cents a gallon. Now, gentlemen, we are not 

 raising fruit for our health ; we are raising it for the dol- 

 lars that are in it, and it is necessary to save the money in 

 these solutions you mix that are just as eft"ective. I liked 

 one remark that the professor from Cornell made in regard 

 to the small growers who have a few trees in the garden and 

 a few trees in the backyard, and who don't even need a small 

 plant, for they can buy this "Kill-o-scale" or "Scalecide," and 

 they can spray their few trees with it, and if they will do the 

 work they are a blessing, and there is a place for them, but 



