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any difficulty in putting it on. Some try to put on all they 

 can; that is the trouble; we try to see how little we can put 

 on. I have seen instances where it has been applied too 

 freely. I could take a spoon and dip vaseline out of the little 

 comers. No wonder such an application or continued appli- 

 cation killed trees. It couldn't help it. 



Mr. Rogers: I have never had any bad effect from 

 either, I have always had good results from lime and sul- 

 phur, and I prefer it for peach trees to oil, but I have had 

 good luck with both lime and sulphur and the oil. 



President Gold to Mr. Rogers : Didn't the oil kill the 

 scale on the peach trees? 



Mr. Rogers: I didn't use the oil on the peach trees; I 

 have always used lime and sulphur on peach and the oil on 

 apple trees. I am surely in favor of oil for apple trees in 

 preference to the lime and sulphur. It is easier to apply and 

 you can apply it at most any time, and the lime and sulphur 

 you have to boil and prepare it at a certain time, and use 

 it, or we do, in the spring. 



A Member: Why don't you use the oil on peach trees? 



Mr. Rogers : Because it has little effect as a fungicide. 

 I have always used lime and sulphur on peach trees with 

 such good success; it cleans the tree up in such good shape 

 that I have always used it. I have seen oil used on peach 

 trees and didn't like the looks of it. 



Prof. Jarvis: I don't know as it is necessary to take up 

 much time on this matter, but it may be of interest to know 

 that a bulletin has just been issued by the Storrs Experiment 

 Station on the subject of home-made and prepared miscible 

 or soluble oils. This bulletin reports the experiences of the 

 Experiment Station for several years on the subject and use 

 of various commercial and home-made miscible oils. If you 

 have not read this bulletin, if you will send a request to the 

 Station, a copy will be sent you. 



There are a few more matters I woud like to speak of. 

 In discussing this question yesterday the speaker, Professor 

 Surface, made some statements which he said to-dav he was 



