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always been a crank on Lime Sulphur. I recognize in Lime Sulphur 

 that we are applying something that cannot hurt your trees, no 

 matter who does the spraying, or how it is done. I also recognize 

 that it does not spread quite as readily as the oil ; and that's the 

 only point in favor of the oils that makes them advantageous on 

 Apples ; and in my experience, covering ten year's of experiments, 

 I have been able to get just as good results from Lime Sulphur on 

 Apples as from the oil ; but I grant you it requires more thorough 

 work. The San Jose Scale is harder to control on the apple than 

 on the peach. 



Several Brands of Lime Sulphur Were Used In Our Tests. 



Practically speaking, they are about on the same basis, and 

 practically speaking, it is up to the individual whether he wishes 

 to use the commercial compounds or to make his own Lime Sulphur. 

 If he has gone to the expense of buying a boiler, the latter is de- 

 cidedly the cheaper wash. It is in my opinion the best wash when 

 you make it properly; but in considering the labor, the trouble in 

 making it, the commercial solutions offer quite an inducement to 

 use them ; and my advice to the fruit growers is to simply put it on 

 a financial basis. If you have a man that will handle and make the 

 home-made, and you have everything for making it, I should cer- 

 tainly use it. If, on the other hand, you do not wish to go to that 

 trouble, you have the concentrated wash from which you certainly 

 can reasonably expect the same results. 



Member. What dilution, Professor ? 



Prof. Symons. I would recommend i to 9 ; in bad cases i to 8. 



E. C. Tyson. Do you not think that the matter of time, 

 being able to spray promptly when the winds are favorable, would 

 be very much in favor of the concentrated solution ? 



Prof. Symons. You mean that it would take time to make the 

 solution? Yes, there is that advantage. Furthermore, I think that 

 people who have been spraying for years, have yet much to learn. 

 None of us know it all ; and the man or woman who thinks he or she 

 knows it all, might as well quit. We think we know something 

 about spraying". I believe we have a lot to learn, even at this time. 

 Certainly a great m^any of us do it in the hardest and most disagree- 

 able way. It reminds me of a story I heard last week down in Bal- 

 timore. Mr. Shemberger, of Baltimore County, is trying to get the 

 Baltimore Countians together, working on the Good Roads Move- 

 ment. He said a good many of the backwoods farmers were a great 

 deal like the old man and his son that kept quite a number of cat- 

 tle. In the arrangement of the stable, they had the bull in the first 

 stall as you came into the stable. This bull had the peculiarly per- 

 nicious habit of kicking as you passed by him — every time you went 

 by him, he kicked. One day a visitor came, and they wanted to 

 show him the cattle, — the cattle were kept at the other end of the 

 stable. On entering the stable the injunction he received was: 

 "Look out for that bull; that animal will kick you; we always have 

 to be very careful in going by here." "Look here, my friend," said 

 the visitor, "would it be any trouble to move that bull down into 

 the last stall, and put the cows up here?" "Well, I declare," said 



