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lating food production during the emergency. The aim of the campaign 
was to influence every farmer in Mississippi who had an orchard to 
spray it for San Jose scale. 
A meeting of representatives of the various spray machinery and 
spray chemical manufacturers with the horticulture, entomology and 
other cooperating departments of the Mississippi A. and M. College 
was the first step toward organizing the campaign. The meeting 
was held at the college on August 21. The chief purpose was to find 
out what these manufacturers and jobbers could do to aid in the move¬ 
ment. At this meeting a number of spray pumps were offered as 
prizes from various manufacturers, and the types of outfits for various 
size orchards were adopted. Suggestive talks were made by both 
college and factory officials. 
The next step included an interview with the governor who issued 
a proclamation to the people of the state proclaiming December 9-15 
as “ Spray Your Orchard Week.” The annual meetings of the Missis¬ 
sippi Retail Hardware Dealers Association and the Mississippi county 
health officers were attended at which resolutions were passed assuring 
their cooperation. 
Publicity was given the campaign during the fall at the various fairs 
of Mississippi and neighboring states at which “ Spray Your Orchard 
Week” booths were established and spraying demonstrations held. 
The Chambers of Commerce and Boards of Trade of the larger towns 
gave valuable publicity, as did the daily press and farm magazines. Some 
of the farm papers put on a special ‘‘Spray Your Orchard Week” issue. 
The county agent was made the leader of the campaign in his 
county, and the home demonstration agent assistant leader. Arrange¬ 
ments were made whereby every agent in the state had a spray pump 
for this week. A personal visit was made to each county of the state 
before the campaign to assist in the organizing. The county health 
officer gave his services during the week to give talks on fruit and 
health at the demonstrations. The state superintendent of educa¬ 
tion requested the use of a specially prepared spray booklet in all of 
the schools of the state during spray week, and the agricultural high 
schools gave demonstrations in the school communities. The county 
superintendents of education gave their time during the week to the 
agents for short talks at demonstrations. The twelve thousand 
Mississippi club boys and the ten thousand club girls with their state 
leaders assisted materially with the campaign as did also the entire 
state extension force. The railroads loaned their agricultural agents 
for the week to assist in the work, and rendered other valuable assist¬ 
ance as did the bankers, rural clubs, nurserymen, state department of 
agriculture, and the experiment station and its branches. The hard- 
