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the bee-keepfers. We had some letters 

 but they were not such as were suf- 

 ficiently convincing." 



Mr. Baxter: "I do not agree with 

 you about the usefulness of our pro- 

 fessors. In New York state they have 

 made a very exhaustive study of this 

 subject." 



Mr. Kluck referred to the case of 

 an experiment made with apple trees 

 in bloom where part were protected 

 and part exposed and said the or- 

 chardists had never made any ref- 

 erence to that experiment. 



Mr. York: "Some one said that Mr. 



Mr. Kildow: "You cannot kill cur- 

 culio by spraying at all. He raises 

 up the skin of the fruit and deposits 

 the egg and the skin soon dries down 

 over the place and you can't kill that 

 or any other bug that does not chew." 



Mr. Stone: "We have a very intel- 

 ligent horticulturist with us who says 

 that his experience is that spraying 

 blooming trees does not do a bit of 

 good. 



"As for our own experience, we wash 

 our fruit trees with a wash that is 

 made of lime and whale-oil soap. 

 After a while we began to double 



;. JAS. A. STONE, Secretary. 

 ? Courtesy of Col. C. F. Mills. 



Dunlap said if a large Orchard had 

 to be sprayed, it made it impossible 

 to do it in time unless the owner be- 

 gan before the bloom was all off. But 

 he was of the opinion that no pro- 

 gressive fruit grower would spray his 

 trees during fruit bloom, as it de- 

 stroyed the fruit. If that is known 

 to orchardists it seem« to ime that 

 ithey and the bee-keepers ought to 

 ptill together on this matter." 



Mr. Baxter: "Nauvoo is the old- 

 est fruit growing point in the state 

 of Illinois. We have people there who 

 are intelligent horticulturists and they 

 persist in spraying while the trees are 

 in full bloom. What are you going 

 to do? Mr. Dunlap sprays his during 

 bloom." 



the quantity of whale-oil soap. 

 We began to talk about it, about the 

 same time there was the talk about 

 bees injuring the grapes. Mr. Buck- 

 man said to me, 'You will get to spray- 

 ing after a while.' I said, 'We will not 

 go to spraying until we have to.' We 

 put this wash on to keep sheep from 

 the trees. We have good fruit all the 

 time. I have taken premiums over 

 Dunlap and others with fruit not 

 sprayed several times." 



Mr. Baxter: I cannot let this asser- 

 tion go unchallenged. We have lost 

 crops year after year (by the curculio. 

 We have tried spraying trees and saved 

 the fruit. 



Mr. Dadant: Can we not have a 



