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Answer. Yes. The nmterial costs from lo to 12 cents, knock- 

 ed down. 



C. J. Tyson. A grower in New York tokl me he could bring 

 box wood from the Pacific Coast as cheaply as he could buy in New 

 York, and get more satisfactory material. 



Question. How do you keep posted on market conditions ? 



Answer. Through the Association. Some days telegraphic 

 communications at the Hood River V^alley Association would amount 

 to $100. An individual could not afford that expense; but to an 

 association having 200 to 300 members, the expense is very slight. 

 Mr. Paulhamus, President of the Puyallup Fruit Growers' Associa- 

 tion of Washington, stated that just before they began to market 

 their fruit, one man was stationed in Seattle, one in Spokane, one at 

 Boise, Idaho, etc. All these men make daily reports as to market 

 and climatic conditions. If it was found that a car of small fruit 

 was going to Boise, Idaho, and that it was very cold at Boise, and 

 very warm at Spokane, the destination of the car would be changed 

 and be sent to Spokane instead. The destination of the car is 

 changed according to climatic conditions, slumped markets, etc. 



Question. Is it possible to grade apples into different sizes by 

 machines, and if so, describe the machine and operation. 



Answer. I do not know of any machine that is offered for sale 

 that would be applicable for the grading of apples. 



- The orange graders I hardly believe would answer the purpose, 

 as there would be too much bruising of the fruit. 



SPRAYING FOR SAN JOSE SCALE AND CODLING 



MOTH. 



(stenographic report.) 



Prof. Thomas B. Symons, State Bntomologist, College Park, Md. 



Mr. CJiairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: I congratulate the mem- 

 bers of this association on having such an active county organization. 

 I indeed consider it a great privilege to be with you this morning.. 

 As Lincoln, not far from this spot, urged his fellow countrymen to 

 save the Union, so I urge you to wage relentless war against in- 

 jurious insects. 



I gave your secretary the subject for this morning's talk rather 

 hurriedly, and I would ask the chairman not to hold me strictly to 

 the title of the address, as I wish to mention at least one other insect 

 that is of considerable importance at this time. 



As to the San Jose Scale and the Codling Moth, I shall simply 

 try to supplement the work that your most efficient entomologist. 

 Prof. Surface, is doing in this State. I congratulate the growers of 

 Pennsylvania that they have been able to get the State to sufficiently 

 appreciate the importance of this work to appropriate at least $40,000 

 for the control of injurious insects and plant diseases. The State is 

 really up-to-date in that respect; and I hope that other Eastern 

 States w411 appreciate the importance of the control of these pests. 

 Erom the standpoint of co-operation, I tell you men, individually, 



