A Member:  We had a canning factory that paid 40 cents a bushel of 50 pounds, that would be 80 cents a hundred.

Mr. Brackett:  Are they still in business?

A Member:  Yes, sir.

Mr. Sauter:  We had one that paid 52 cents a bushel.

Mr. Dunlap:  If they were to can these apples in Illinois and ship them up here they have got to pay freight to come in competition with your apples.

Mr. Sauter:  I sprayed last spring first with lime-sulphur, and my sprayer worked fine.  I had a hand sprayer, but when I mixed the lime-sulphur and the arsenate of lead it almost stopped up.  What was the matter, was it the mixture or the sprayer?

Mr. Dunlap:  Most all of these mixtures when you put them together ought to be more or less diluted.

Mr. Sauter:  How long must they stand dissolved?

Mr. Dunlap:  The lime-sulphur is in solution, and if you have that in your water tank the best way is to put your arsenate of lead in in the form of a paste and dilute it until you get it so that there is about two pounds of arsenate of lead to a gallon of water, and with that you can pour it into your tank and if you have an agitator in there you won’t have any difficulty with it.  In the early days of spraying when we used blue vitriol with lime, we tried a concentrated solution of the blue vitriol and lime and found we couldn’t get it through the strainer, but by diluting it, putting our blue vitriol in one tank, and putting half of our water that we intended putting in the sprayer in that, and taking another tank and putting half the water and the lime in that and then putting the two together in this diluted solution, we didn’t have any trouble, but in putting in the concentrated solutions together we had a sticky mess and all sorts of trouble.  It would not go through the strainer.

Mr. Sauter:  How does the powdered arsenate compare with the paste?

Mr. Dunlap:  I haven’t had any personal experience with the powder and I would have to refer you to the experiment station.

Mr. Sauter:  Powder mixes a great deal easier.

Mr. Dunlap:  Yes, sir.  I had this experience with hydrated lime.  The hydrated lime, as you know, comes in sacks and in the form of flour, and all you have to do is just to pour that into the water, and there is no trouble about mixing it at all.  With lime from barrels that we used for making bordeaux, we would slake it and run it off into barrels, and there we diluted it so that we got two pounds to every gallon of water, our stock solution.  But with the hydrated lime we can take so much out, so much by weight, and put it into the tank, and it dissolves right in the water.  But we found this difficulty as between slaked lime and the hydrated lime.  While the hydrated is very nice to use it did not possess the adhesive quality that the regular slaked lime did, and it would wash off the trees and take the vitriol solution with it, and we discontinued its use.