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Member. What kind of Lime Sulphur did you use ? 



Mr. Bassett. Commercial— manufactured by one of the com- 

 panies — Grasselli. We also used the self-slaked. The trouble in 

 this self-slaked, or self-boiled, made by simply slaking the linie and 

 the sulphur coming into combination with it, but not in chemical 

 combination, — is that the slaking is often allowed to progress too 

 far, forming a chemical combination of the lime and sulphur, which 

 will burn the foHage. To avoid such a combination, you must be 

 careful to halt the slaking before chemical action is reached, by the 

 addition of cold water. 



Chester J. Tyson. Mr. President: I move that the chair be 

 authorized to extend the unanimous thanks of the Association to 

 the gentlemen who have met with us as instructors. (Carried.) 



Mr. Eldon. It is my pleasure to extend to you the sincere 

 thanks of the ^Association for the valued service you have rendered 

 during this convention. I regret that I was not able to be here un- 

 til to-day. I appreciate all I have heard. As Mr. Tyson has said, 

 we cannot say all we feel in this matter. It is something that is too 

 deep for words. I can simply say, for myself, and for the organiza- 

 tion, that we have been very much helped. I hope that you will 

 accept in that spirit, and that you will come again to assist and 

 help us. 



E. C. Tyson. Mr. President: There are two bills which 

 will claim the attention of Congress this winter that should interest 

 us very much. One is the National Pure Insecticide Law, the ob- 

 ject of which is to prevent the manufacture, sale or transportation 

 of adulterated or misbranded Paris Greens, Lead Arsenates, and 

 other insecticides, and also fungicides, and for regulating traffic 

 therein, and for other purposes. 



This measure resembles the Pure Food and Drug Act, making 

 it a misdemeanor, punishable by fine, to transport impure insecti- 

 cides over State lines. It of course has no effect on intra-state af- 

 fairs, its object being entirely the protection of inter-state commerce. 



The matter was taken up last winter and threshed over to some 

 extent, but nothing definite accomplished. It is hoped that at this 

 session of Congress final and favorable action will be taken. I would 

 like to ask Mr. Bassett if he is familiar with the provisions of this 

 bill. 



Mr. Bassett. I believe I am one of the members of the com- 

 mittee. I did not draft the bill ; I was simply invited, as a member 

 of the Michigan State Horticulture Association, to become a mem- 

 ber of the Board. The agricultural chemists, the manufacturers of 

 these goods, and our horticultural and experiment stations organ- 

 ized to co-operate in getting pure insecticides of known value, and 

 to prevent the manufacture of Arsenate of Lead below 12^ per cent 

 Arsenic Oxide. 



The intent of the bill is to standardize our insecticides, so that 

 no one shall have the right to manufacture and sell a poison, — an 

 Arsenate of Lead, a London Purple, or Paris Green, not up to a 

 certain standard. It is not an unattainably high standard, but a 

 standard all can meet. It is to show up the fellows who are trying 

 to put upon the market articles of poor quality, and corresponds in 

 its nature to the Pure Food Laws of the dift'erent States. It works 

 on the principle that a man in buying a thing, is entitled to the 



