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outline more fully than he has done here 
of what the plan of spraying was which 
he recommended and the plan of spraying 
he practiced on that grove. I went home; 
it was about time to do spraying. My 
grove was full of scale, whitefly and 
smut; it had not been so bad for years. 
I went home and sprayed my trees ac¬ 
cording to his recommendation, and ( I 
give you my word, it was worth thousands 
of dollars to me, and I want to express 
my appreciation of the work Mr. Yothers 
is doing. 
Mr. Hollingsworth: Is it a spray to 
sell, or do we get a formula? 
Mr. Yothers: I have nothing to sell. 
It is a government formula and can be 
had for the asking. 
I would like to hear for a moment what 
Mr. Borland has to say. 
Mr. Borland: All I can say is exactly 
what Mr. Skinner has said. I was at 
Gainesville; I had exactly the same condi¬ 
tion he had in my grove, and I went home 
and did exactly the same thing. I did 
not have quite so much faith, and stopped 
when I was about half done. The fruit 
is on the trees now, and there is a marked 
difference in the trees and the fruit. 
With Mr. Skinner, I think we owe Mr. 
Yothers a debt of gratitude. Right there 
is the fruit to show that the unsprayed 
fruit does not look like the fruit that was 
sprayed. 
Mr. Hicks: I do not know that I can 
give any report. I sprayed with Schnarr’s 
Insecticide twice last year, and the re¬ 
sult is I have had very little whitefly. 
Last year the man in charge of the pack¬ 
ing house, said it was the worst case of 
whitefly he had ever seen; this year there 
is hardly any. Last year there was a 
good deal of scale which would not wash 
off. This year there is not a bit of scale. 
I sprayed in July and left about half my 
grapefruit unsprayed, but in October 
when I sprayed again, I sprayed the whole 
thing. The result is that there is about 
ten times as much scale on the unsprayed 
part as on the other trees. 
Mr. Yothers: A great many growers 
who have tried the experiment, would 
bear out your statement. 
Mr. Hart: It is necessary to get very 
decided results in this pruning, to make 
it pay, especially if the trees have been 
standing for a few years without much 
pruning. I have put in most of my spare 
time pruning, since last July. I find if I 
get over four or six trees a day, I have 
done well. If a’party has a hundred 
acres, he has a pretty big job ahead of 
him. I have gone partially over my 
grove, and I think it will do another year. 
I will say that my grove was out of 
my hands for a couple of years, so that 
the dead wood accumulated more than if 
I had been in possession. 
As I understand it, a twig as large as 
a darning needle may infect considerable 
fruit; therefore you must look carefully 
and thoroughly. 
Mr. Kepper: What did Prof. Stevens 
put on the cut after he pruned. 
Mr. Stevens: I did not use anything 
but carbolineum, full strength. 
Mr. Yothers: Our time is about up. 
I would-like to have Mrs. Prange say a 
few words. When she closes, my part 
of the program will be over. 
Mrs. Prange: Mr. Yothers asked me 
to speak this afternoon, but he does not 
