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ficulty is that where you get a sufficient 
quantity of mulching and humus on the 
soil, you are apt to give your trees a lit¬ 
tle too much rich food. They are indulg¬ 
ing in late suppers, lobster, champagne, 
and so forth. They are apt to get indi¬ 
gestion and get very sick, and you have 
trouble. 
I have land that ranges from rich low 
hammock up to scrub and pine land, and 
some land that you gentlemen would turn 
your heads away from (if you didn’t see 
the trees). Saw palmetto land, with 
hard pan. But on that same land I have 
grown some of the best trees I have. It 
is some of the most satisfactory land that 
I now have to handle. 
I am today asking the question of this 
meeting, and want to bring out from Mr. 
Schnarr as to his spray, which he claims 
will control the rust mite. Scientifically, 
I think we can bring out from our profes¬ 
sors that no oil spray has been known 
that will handle the rust mite. I have 
used the resin wash, whale oil soap, 
kerosene emulsion, etc., without effect. 
Sulphur seems to be the only thing that 
will control the rust mite at all. 
We have also with us a gentleman rep¬ 
resenting an English firm which has 
made a big demonstration in supplying a 
sheep dip, and they have a spray which 
they call Cooper’s V. I. which has done 
good work on the Mytilaspis citricola, or 
long scale and the red scale. It cleaned 
them out, and also the white fly in the 
larval and pupal stages were destroyed. 
Also, I could not find an egg that was not 
killed, although they do not claim that the 
spray will destroy the eggs.. They go fur¬ 
ther, and say that the spray is a fungi¬ 
cide. I think it will probably handle the 
rust mite. 
We begin to spray when the orange is 
the size of a small marble. We pay no 
attention to any regular time of spraying, 
but go ahead every three weeks and spray 
until we ship the fruit. We don’t finish 
shipping, sometimes, until April, so you 
can see what that spraying means. Oft¬ 
entimes the rust mite does not affect the 
fruit at all; it will seem to be thoroughly 
cleaned out; other times it will make its 
appearance early in the season and I hate 
to think about what a hard time we have 
to combat it. 
Mr. Stevens: I would like to ask Mr. 
Thompson if he noticed any change in 
the texture of the rind of the orange in 
using the soda sulphur solution and the 
other sulphur solutions. 
Mr. Thompson: I cannot say that I 
did. 
Mr. Stevens: When the sulphur and 
soda solution was first put into general 
use, it was claimed that it improved the 
texture of the rind; made it thinner and 
of a finer texture. Possibly I deceived 
myself, but I thought it did, too. It 
seemed to make the rind smoother. 
Mr. Thompson: I have never used so 
much of the lime and sulphur as the 
paste and sulphur. I cannot see any dif¬ 
ference in the orange. 
Mr. Tabor: I would like to ask Mr. 
Porcher what he has to sell his fruit for 
to cover the cost of spraying and of the 
sulphur. 
M,r. Porcher: Mr. Tabor’s question is 
bringing up a question that will come 
later. His point is well taken. The 
spraying when done ordinarily is much 
less expensive. 
