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stored away in the end of a shed — not a great quantity — covered up 

 with paper and sacks. The owner told me they were put in there in 

 December. I saw them in July. He went into the shed to exhibit the 

 lemons to me, and I never saw better lemons in my life, or better cured* 

 They had been there from December until July, and were kept practi- 

 cally under the same conditions that we are now trying. They were 

 kept there six months. 



At this time a recess was taken until 2 o'clock this afternoon. 



AFTERNOON SESSION-SECOND DAY. 



Wednesday, May 6, 1903. 



The Convention was called to order at 2 o'clock. Vice-President 

 Griffith in the chair. 



VICE-PRESIDENT GRIFFITH. Gentlemen, we will first take up 

 the matter of the question box. We have a couple of questions here we 

 wish to have answered. "What about dust spray for orchards?" 



MR. PEASE. We took up the question of dust spraying for the 

 purpose of trying it on our apple trees. On some of our apple orchards 

 we have red spider, in the mountain districts, and the commencement 

 of the codling-moth. The dust spray was highly recommended, and a 

 Mr. Ford of Redlands has used two or three different machines which 

 were sent to him on trial. The dust is a preparation of lime, paris 

 green, bluestone and something else, I think — sulphur, perhaps — and it 

 is claimed that the lime would carry it and it would stick to both sides 

 of the leaves, no matter what the climate. But we have tried it in the 

 mountain districts where there are no fogs, and it is a failure. In 

 places where it has been tried on lower ground I have heard it said that 

 the dust would be so thick that it would absolutely stick to both sides 

 of the leaves. But so far, with us, we have had to give it up on the apple 

 orchards. 



VICE-PRESIDENT GRIFFITH. The next question is : "How does 

 compressed air compare with common pumps for raising water?" 



PROFESSOR COOK. We have a good many of both around us, and 

 with a single plant it is probably better to have the common pump. 

 But where you have a number of wells quite different from each other, 

 the compressed air is a great deal better, and gives satisfaction. But it is 

 very expensive, except where you have a good many wells. We have a 

 large number of wells which are managed by the pump at Claremont, 



