Talks About Spraying 
Ousting vs. Liquid Spray 
Negative Results. —At the meeting of 
the New York Horticultural Society much 
interest was shown in the dusting method 
of controllin, 
One full session 
Professor Parrott said 
ued by the experiments 
1 were by no means con- 
in regard to the control 
of sucking insects, but of other insects 
as well. Leaf roller was bad on all the 
plots, and showed little control. Then, 
too, while there was no scab to speak of 
where the dusting was done, neither was 
there on some of the check plots, and not 
much difference between spraying and 
dusting in this respect, the season not 
being favorable for the scab. Copper 
dust made much russeting of fruit in one 
of the experiments, and the same was 
frequently reported from other sources. 
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Labor axd Materials.— Comparative 
costs of materials and actual cost of labor 
in the Wilson orchard show the dust to 
be more than double that of the lime- 
| sulphur spray in the heavy applications. 
This is a serious objection to the use of 
dust, where a high nicotine content is 
necessary, as the cost of nicotine for dust 
is higher than for liquid spray. A great 
help would be to find nicotine in cheaper 
form, or a chemical of equal value, but 
cheaper. 
Dust for Apiits. —A member asked the 
question as to control of aphis by use of 
dust, and the reply was that it had not 
been found satisfactory, only killing about 
25 per cent. Results from especially pre¬ 
pared. extra finely ground sulphur 
preparations indicated that such line 
grinding tended to weaken them. As 
there is great interest in dusting on ac¬ 
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interest. The first question was in re¬ 
gard to Summer treatment for San Jose 
scale, either dust or liquid spray. Pro¬ 
fessor Parrott, being called on to answer, 
replied that lime-sulphur spray. 1 to 40. 
destroyed young scale, but that he could 
not answer as to dust. There was little 
result from the use of sulphur dust for 
controlling San Jose scale, but the addi¬ 
tion of nicotine might help. 
Is dusting of apples and pears as eco¬ 
nomical aud as satisfactory as the liquid 
sprays? 
Mr. Ward, of Ravenna, in his experience, 
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counting labor, about as cheap as liquid 
.sprays. Other growers did not volunteer 
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