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feet control on his premises, and sold from his orchard sixty 

 thousand dollars worth of peaches last summer. From one 

 hundred and forty acres of average quality of Pennsylvania 

 soil was thus obtained a greater cash value in fruit prod- 

 ucts than the entire annual salary of the President of the 

 United States ! This shows the result of the intelligent use 

 of lime-sulphur wash, but that result could be obtained onlv 

 by the personal application of the efforts of the man behind 

 the nozzle. The man growing this large crop was Mr. D. M. 

 Wertz, of Waynesboro, Pa. I was in his orchard and know 

 that his crop amounted to one hundred and forty carloads. 

 In one day thirteen carloads were picked, packed and shipped 

 from that orchard. The Scale had been there, perhaps as long 

 as in any orchard in the county, but the owner had relied 

 upon us very frequently for counsel, and had followed our 

 advice and saved his trees and his crop as a result. 



The oil sprays have not given universal satisfaction. 

 There are no commercial oils that are at all times entirely free 

 from danger when applied to fruit trees, particularly on peach 

 and plum. I have just received a report from two of my as- 

 sistants telling of injury and destruction in an orchard of 

 twenty-three thousand trees, in Franklin County, by the use 

 of an oil spray. The owner of the orchard is S. B. Rinehart, 

 of Mercersburg, Pa. He will confirm the statement that he 

 has not only lost his crop for the past two years, but is now 

 losing his trees. The material used in this case as a spray- 

 was the "Target P>rand,'' and there are several reports of in- 

 jury from its use. but other oils have not been free from jus- 

 tifiable censure. For example, an orchard belonging to R. S. 

 Clarke, of Dillsburg, was bady injured by "Scalecide," look- 

 ing as though scorched with fire, and hundreds of persons re- 

 cently gathered there at a public demonstration recognized 

 this injury at once. At West Fayetteville is another similar 

 case, and several reports have come to us concerning unsat- 

 isfactory use of "Scalecide," either in not killing the Scale or 

 in injuring the trees, although this material must be regarded 

 as one of the best of the so-called soluble oils. It appears 

 that these oils effect their injury by entering the lenticals, or 



