Now, as I stated to start with, these remarks ought to be appropriate to your needs and to make them so it would be a good deal better for me to give you the opportunity of asking questions or of discussing this question of spraying yourselves rather than for me to go into this subject any further and not know just exactly what you would like to listen to.  If you have any questions to ask I would be glad to answer them if I can.

Mr. Horton:  What proportion of the lime-sulphur and arsenate of lead do you use?

Mr. Dunlap:  If we get the commercial brand of lime-sulphur we use it in the proportion of three gallons of that commercial mixture to 100 gallons of water and for the arsenate of lead in the same spray tank at same time we use four pounds of arsenate of lead to the 100 gallons.

Mr. Horton:  Have you ever carried over lime-sulphur from one year to another?

Mr. Dunlap:  Yes, sir, we often do that, carry it over until the next year.  It wants to be kept where it will not freeze.

Mr. Horton:  Is there much danger of evaporation so it would be too strong to use next year?

Mr. Dunlap:  Your barrel should be kept bunged tight.

Mr. Richardson:  Mr. Dunlap fails to say anything about dormant sprays. 
Don’t you use dormant sprays?

Mr. Dunlap:  I was just speaking about the dormant or winter spray.  When you spray in the winter time use lime-sulphur or scalicide.

Mr. Richardson:  Another thing:  I take a little exception to what Mr. Dunlap says in advocating buying a spraying machine collectively in the neighborhood, for the simple reason that it is necessary to spray at one particular time, at the vital time just before the blossoms fall and at the time they have fallen.  We have found it almost impossible to do any spraying for anybody except ourselves at that time.  We talked that matter over before we bought spraying machines.

You said you wondered whether there were any apples grown here commercially.  Out of our town we shipped this year eight car-loads of apples.  We have three power sprays in our orchard, and we talked that matter over before we bought them, about buying collectively, and we decided it was absolutely impossible to do it.  I don’t think it is feasible for a small grower to depend on that kind of thing because he may be disappointed.  My theory is for each one to have his own sprayer, large or small.  Another thing, we find a pressure of 200 pounds is better than spraying without that pressure; we get better results.

Mr. Dunlap:  The gentleman misunderstood me.  I said where you have just small orchards you could do it collectively.  Of course, I do not advocate where a man has enough to have use for a spray machine for his own orchard that he get one collectively.  That would be a great mistake, but where a man has only fifty trees in a neighborhood where there are no big orchards, it would be better for a dozen or more to combine.  If you can get around with it in a week you will be all right but not longer than that.