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-: I would not use lime in any 
other way. 
-: If you want to grow good 
trees you must know your trees. I re¬ 
member one time a man told me to use 
cotton seed meal on my grove and I did. 
I had to go to work and cut a year’s 
growth down. It would not work, the tips 
turned down and I had to go to work and 
get someone that understood tree growth 
better than I did and he told me of a good 
grade of fertilizer to use on them, and I 
did. 
-: How much bluestone do you 
recommend for two-year-old trees? 
Lenfest: I would say from T /\ \.o 
pound in two or three different applica¬ 
tions from three to four weeks apart. I 
divide it up that way to protect myself. If 
the trees were my own I would put on 
to y pound, but I don’t when it is going 
to rain. I have seen six and seven-year- 
old trees killed outright by the use of %. 
to *4 pound. One man I remember put 
it on during Saturday afternoon and he 
wanted to go to town that night. He had 
a can containing ^4 pound and he went up 
to the tree and threw it on. He told a man 
of it that night, who told him to go home 
and take it off. He lost quite a number 
of trees. That was caused because he did 
not put it on right. Those trees, if they 
had been in a dieback condition, would 
have stood 2 pounds at least, if put on 
carefully. 
-: Is bluestone ever to be used 
for anything else but dieback and french- 
ing? 
Lenfest: I don’t know. It is used for 
lots of different ailments. 
Dade: I have heard of it being used 
for fertilizer! ! ! 
Heimberger: I heartily agree with re¬ 
gard to nitrate of soda. Nitrate of soda 
had been abused. Where used intelligent¬ 
ly on frenched trees at J4 pound applica¬ 
tion it is all right. I never would apply 
nitrate of soda at the rate of 4 pounds to 
the tree. If nitrate is used in sane 
amounts and if used intelligently, it is 
good. 
-: Do you think the bluestone 
produces physical action or a chemical ac¬ 
tion on the tree? 
Lenfest: I don’t know. If I could 
stand up here and answer all the questions 
absolutely correctly I would not worry 
about what I was going to do the rest of 
my life. 
