nd work on the plums half-grown and on the full-grown. The plum pocket
fungus, it works on the plums in the spring of the year and sometimes
takes the whole crop. The Terry plum, I think, a year ago, it took the
whole crop.

Mr. Kellogg: What is the best spray you know of, how often do you apply
it and when?

Mr. Cook: Which is that for, for the brown rot?

Mr. Kellogg: Yes, for the plum generally.

Mr. Cook: Oh, I don't know of any. Let me tell you something, the plum
as a class is very susceptible to injury from sprays. I know when
Professor Luger was entomologist there was some talk of spraying plums
for curculio, and some tried it, and while it generally got the curculio
it killed the trees, and Professor Luger said that the foliage of the
plum was the more susceptible to injury from arsenical poisoning than
that of any other fruit in Minnesota. The Japanese hybrid plums, I
think, will take injury a little bit quicker than the native, and when
you come to the sand cherry plums it is extremely dangerous to spray
with anything stronger than rain water.

Prof. Hansen: I want to talk about the lime-sulphur. We will probably
have that in the next paper, only I want to say that seems to have taken
the place of the Bordeaux mixture. Brown rot, that is something that
affects the peach men too. In the state of Ohio in one year the peach
men lost a quarter of a million dollars from the brown rot, the same rot
that takes our plums. We are not the only ones that suffer from the
brown rot. Well, they kept on raising peaches because they learned to
control it, and if you are not going to spray I think you better give
up. As to trying to get something that won't take the rot, it is
something like getting a dog that won't take the fleas. (Laughter.)

Mr. Older: I had considerable experience in putting out seedling plums.
When large enough to get to bearing there wasn't a good one in the whole
lot. I got some plums, the finest I could pick out, and three years ago
they first came into bearing, and one of my neighbors went over there
when they were ripe and said they were the best plums he had seen, but
since then I have had none. I got some Emerald plums from Mr. Cook. They
were nice plums, and when he came to see them he said, "I came to see
plums, I didn't come to see apples," but the brown rot gets a good many
of them. I had some last year, and just before they ripened the brown
rot struck them, and it not only took all the