56 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Question. Do you ever have any trouble with burning 

 foHage with lime-sulphur? 



Mr. WooDWORTH. No. I don't think there is any trouble 

 with burning the foliage if you don't get your mixture too 

 strong. 



Question. What do you pay for commercial lime-sulphur? 



Mr. WooDW^ORTH. Eight dollars a barrel, 40 gallons. If you 

 want to make lime- sulphur cheap, get some brick, a 2-inch 

 plank, make a little brick furnace with a wooden box with 

 a sheet-iron bottom, about 6 feet long and 35 inches broad, 

 nail it on with two rows of tacks, put a bit of stove pipe up 

 through the end for a draft, and put in a hundred weight of 

 sulphur to 50 pounds of lime, and boil it one hour and draw it 

 off. Take a hydrometer and test it, and use it according to 

 the hydrometer test. The test of the hydrometer gives the 

 strength. You have to pay $2.25 for the sulphur and about 

 25 cents for the lime. In April you can boil your lime-sulphur 

 when you are doing nothing else, and I have saved S50 this 

 year. 



Question. What formula do you use for Bordeaux mixture? 



IVIr. WooDWORTH. Forty gallons of water and -4 pounds of 

 blue vitriol and 4 pounds of lime. You should dilute the 

 4 pounds of blue vitriol with 20 gallons of water in a barrel, 

 and the 4 pounds of lime with another 20 gallons of water, and 

 then pour simultaneously into a third barrel; if you don't do 

 it this way your Bordeaux is no good. 



Question. How much growth do you get on a tree? 



Mr. WooDWORTH. On a tree that is fruiting never over 4 

 or 5 inches of growth. 



Question. Do you thin your apples? 



Mr. WooDW^ORTH. Well, we want to; it is a hard prop- 

 osition, the thinning of fruit. We have only thinned a very 

 few trees, and I know that it is the right thing to do, but we 

 have not done it. Our best fruit growers do. Thinning will 

 become universal in a little w4iile. 



Question. Do you raise any small fruit along with the 

 trees? 



Mr. WooDWORTH. If you grow small fruit the raspberries 

 and strawberries sap the soil of its fertility. I have always 



