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ida enough money to pay his salary for 
the next twenty-five years. By making 
possible the campaign against canker the 
Growers and Shippers League has saved 
us an equal amount. By seeing to it that 
all nursery stock moved in the State is 
adequately inspected before it is moved 
we will save ourselves a similar catastro¬ 
phe in the future. 
From a sense of fairness to the small 
nurseries, the nursery inspection charges 
should be revised. To make the service of 
the inspector free would place it in line 
with our other public institutions. With 
free nursery inspection the excuse for 
evasion would be removed and I believe 
that the small nurseryman would be will¬ 
ing and glad to have his nursery inspected 
and certified. 
Discussion 
Mr. Skinner: I am afraid we are get¬ 
ting away from our idea of having dis¬ 
cussion from the floor this year. Our 
program seems to be so full that we can 
hardly get through with it as it is. I 
think it is a mistake. I imagine there is a 
good deal of information right down here 
on the floor, and I would like to get some 
r of it. 
Now, in my opinion, citrus scab is the 
most serious thing we have to contend 
with, except the canker. If you have a 
little of it in your grove, get busy and get 
it out. 
I have a block of about 1500 trees of 
grapefruit, and under the recommendation 
of Prof. Rolfs last year I pruned it very 
severely, endeavoring as far as possible 
to get rid of every bit of scab. In doing 
that, I had to get rid of about four thou¬ 
sand or five thousand boxes of grapefruit 
and throw them away. 
It started from one little corner of the 
grove. I had heard some one recommend 
sulphate of iron or bluestone, and I was 
fool enough to try it, but we did not know 
much about scab at that time and I excuse 
myself on that account. But from that 
little corner of the grove, from trees 
which I had bought from a nurseryman 
whom I will not name, it spread all over 
the grove in the shortest possible time. 
There was a block of about 1500 trees of 
the most vigorous nature, and it seemed 
almost in one night the scab attacked 
them; it appeared that every leaf on that 
block of trees was affected. 
It is a serious thing. I tried last year 
a strong solution of soluble sulphur; it is 
no good, so far as I am concerned. I do 
not know what experience other people 
may have. I tried this year one-to-thirtv 
solution of lime sulphur. So far as I am 
concerned, it is no good. I tried Bor¬ 
deaux on another block; I don’t know yet 
whether it is any good; whether I will 
be able to save the fruit or not. 
I am not talking about shark skin; I 
am thoroughly convinced the sulphur so¬ 
lution will control shark skin, because of 
its fungicidal properties. 
Prof. Stevens told me a very interest¬ 
ing thing about this scab. I asked him— 
I have been in the State thirty-two years 
and I have seen sour trees alongside of 
my trees without a particle of scab, and 
yet suddenly without any apparent rea¬ 
son, here comes a whole lot of scab. He 
said there was probably one spore of the 
fungus that was stronger and more virile, 
