FIFTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. yy 



I sav to you i^ciitlcnicn. stick to the lime and siil[)liur and 

 it will stand by you, if you do your duty by it. 



Discussion. 



Mr. Root : Did I understand you to say tbat we were to 

 boil the solution and put it on hot? 



Mr. Skillman : Yes sir; if you mix your lime and throw 

 it in cold, or throw the sulphur and the lime in separately, 

 it is necessary to boil it probably an hour, but if you will 

 put the lime and the sulphur together, and let the heat of the 

 lime help to dissolve the sulphur, you will save half an hour, and 

 I don't think you will need to boil it over thirty minutes ; 

 and when I say "boil," it means boiling; it don't mean 

 hot or simmering, but I mean boiling. 



Mr. Root : I don't think you understood my question. 

 I simply want to know if you boil the whole mixture together, 

 or do you heat the cold water before you mix it? 



Mr; Skillman : No ; I throw it all together and boil it. 



Mr. Root : Do you reduce it before you boil it ? 



Mr. Skillman : No ; I put the eighty gallons in the tank, 

 and I have another vessel with the twenty in, and as soon as I 

 get the lime slaked with the sulphur paste I put it in, but in 

 the meantime this eighty gallons of water is getting hot all 

 the time. 



Mr. Root: And then you put it on boiling hot? 



]\Ir. Skillman : Yes sir ; you can't hurt your trees with 

 it, because it comes out in a mist, and before it leaves the 

 nozzle two feet it will be cold, and you can't get it on too 

 hot. 



A AIember : How does the scale spread from one part of 

 the country to the other? 



Mr. Skillman : The birds wall spread it. They will come 

 along, and they will go to another tree ; and wasps and other 

 insects will spread it, but I find a great many trees are first 

 infested down at the bottom near the ground, and it looks 

 to me as if it might have floated there or been dropped there. 

 And then I find a great many trees infested on a hmb, and 

 it looks as though an insect might have dropped the larva. 



