Greetings 
Through our seventeenth Annual Report. 
We do not know if this will reach you in time to express 
our hopes that we will see you at the NAGC meeting but if 
we miss on this, may we extend to you our earnest wish 
that you meet with us at the NEGS meeting. 
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Wisconsin is fortunate to have the best convention city 
in the country. All hotels are close together and are fine 
temporary homes. Milwaukee also has the famous friendly 
breweries. You will enjoy your visit and also profit by coming. 
By the time of the meeting, much new and authentic in- 
_ formation on the use of various dips, insecticides, etc. should 
be available, as well as rather definite information on the 
use of 2-4D. 3 
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Results in using 2-4D 
We were fortunate enough to have a dozen veterans op- 
erating jeep spraying outfits this season. All preliminary 
work as to rate of spraying etc. had already been done. We 
applied 50% 2-4D at the rate of 20 lbs. to the acre on/one acre 
and 50% 2-4D at the rate of 30 lbs. to the acre on one acre. 
_ Both of these spraying gave good control of weeds other 
than the grasses. In another planting we progressively in- 
creased the strength and sprayed only in the row, AFTER 
planting. Our control of amount used however had to be by 
guess as we had no timed sprayer for this row work. We found. 
no harm to the bulbs in growing, blooming, nor after harvest. 
However strong concentrations prevented not only weed seeds, 
grass seeds etc. from sprouting but completely killed all 
bulblets. If this winter does not bring out definite tests along 
this line on large quantities of bulbs, we will equip ourselves 
with a row sprayer with speed control so that we can give 
what promises to be very useful information. 
-~ The past season we saw several type bulb washers shown 
and want to show our simple washer. Set the motor on the 
ground, increase the size of your wash machine pulley, and 
let the water run in as fast as it runs out. Of course screen- 
ing the drain. There are many old type wash machines ideal 
for this work. 
We have at times been told that bulbs take nothing but 
a little nitrogen from the soil, and have almost become con- 
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