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about two weeks after the blossoms fall. I have been often asked 

 the question whether it was safe to eat fruit which had just been 

 sprayed with Paris green. I may answer definitely, yes. I under- 

 took to prove that last year. I dipped same fruit in Bordeaux mix- 

 ture, this Bordeaux mixture had one pound of Paris green to loO 

 gallons of water, and in the fall these were taken to a chemist and 

 analyzed and the chemist reported not a trace of arsenic. So I 

 state there is no danger in eating apples which were sprayed early 

 in the season with Paris green. 



Qnes. Is there any danger in the sheep eating the grass under 

 the trees, having sheep running in the pasture? 



Ans. I told Mr. Pope if it didn't kill his whole flock I would 

 pay for the sheep it injured. It is certain that his sheep went 

 around under the trees after spraying to get the wet grass and they 

 are all living yet. 



Mr. Pope : Wherever we are using this poison we cannot use too 

 much care. You should be very careful in having it about the build- 

 ings. There is no more danger, of course, than when you used it 

 on your potatoes. In spraying for scab and the codling moth it 

 requires a little care. The wind may change and blow the fine 

 spray in your face. Once our men got badly poisoned by breath- 

 ing the wet air. We take precaution now to tie a sponge over the 

 mouth and nose whenever we are spraying with Paris gieen. 



Mr. Ml'nson: There is one point that should be mentioned, we 

 should have the spray as fine as possible, a very fine mist rather 

 than coarse drops. The best nozzle for this purpose is that man- 

 ufactured by Joha McGowen, N. Y. It is a new nozzle called the 

 McGowen nozzle and is the best one there is up to date. A simple 

 sprayer will do very well but I should not recommend it as it is 

 too small to do much good. If I had only a few trees 1 would use 

 a little pump called the Little Gem. It is a very convenient little 

 machine costing about $3.o0. The machine that has been sold to 

 some extent is the Lewis combination syri-nge and force-pump. 

 Really that is not suitable. I would not advise anyone here to 

 buy it as it is not suitable as a force-pump. 



Qnes. There is a worm known as the wire worm which is doing 

 more damage than the codling moth? 



Ans. It is the tripeta pomonella. So far as we know at th^ 

 present t'rae, there is no remedy for this insect. The best thing to 

 do is to gather and destroy all fruit in the orchard as it falls and be 



