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papers than in any series of papers for a long time. He thought that 

 they covered a field that had not been satisfactorily covered before. 

 It happened that when the lime, sulphur, and salt wash was first tried 

 in Washington, the result as recorded by Mr. Marlatt and others was 

 that it afforded but little protection. One or two others tried 

 the same material and the results were equally poor. In a second 

 bulletin from the U. S. Department of Agriculture, the chemical 

 reactions in the wash were set forth and it was shown almost conclu- 

 sively that it could not reasonably be expected to be of much value in 

 in the moist East. A year or two ago one or two Jerseymen tried the 

 wash on rather badly infested peach orchards, and the results seemed 

 to be very good. During the past winter a number of other New 

 Jersey fruit growers had successfully tried the wash. He called 

 attention to a point not previously mentioned, namely, that the 

 results of recent experiments in Illinois had been remarkably success- 

 fid. He thought that the experiment there was nearly a complete 

 success, 99 per cent of the scale having been killed at the time when 

 Dr. Forbes's bulletin had been sent to the press. Dr. Forbes exam- 

 ined the experiment trees before the wash was applied, and discovered 

 that when the winter had set in fully 50 per cent of the scale was 

 dead. This fact was to be considered in estimating the amount of 

 good done hy washes. He had seen trees where no treatment had 

 been made where T5 per cent of the scale was dead in the early spring. 

 Any sort of wash put on during the winter, if no previous count had 

 been made, would be credited with killing 75 to 80 per cent of the 

 scale, so that there will be an element of error in the statement of results 

 unless previous examination has been made. This is a point to which 

 Dr. Forbes gave proper attention. He was the first one, who in his 

 records of results, took pains to take this into consideration and pub- 

 lished the count. Mr. Smith stated that there are a number of local- 

 ities in New Jersey where the lime, sulphur, and salt wash has been used 

 on peach, pear, and apple. Very few plums had been treated and more 

 peach than any other friiit. One of these places is in the vicinity of 

 Mount Holly; a second is nearer to Camden; the third is in the vicinity 

 of Heightstown. They were all in one general section of the State, 

 and something like 70,000 or 80,000 trees were treated on a commer- 

 cial scale. The fonnula used was almost universally 50-50-50 to 150 

 gallons of water. The proportion of the sulphur to the water was 

 nearly the same in all of the mixtures. The preparation was very 

 thorough, some steaming and some boiling direct. He had visited 

 almost every one of the sprayed orchards, and the last visit had been 

 only two or three days ago. The majority of the trees were large. 

 The work was done with barrel sprayers or with power sprayers on 

 carts. Where the work was done on small trees that were not badly 

 infested the results were very good. A great many trees seemed to 



