t, and we discontinued
its use.

Mr. Sauter: You think it best for anybody with a small orchard to make
his own lime-sulphur solution?

Mr. Dunlap: That depends on how he is equipped. It costs a great deal
less to make your own solution than it does to buy it. Whether you could
afford to do it or not depends upon the amount you spray and your
equipment. You really ought to have, in making your own lime-sulphur, a
steam boiler, although you can make it in an ordinary farm feed boiler.
You can boil it right in that and turn it out after it is made, stirring
it with a wooden paddle while cooking. I find that if we are equipped
for it we will make a product that is equal to the imported product, but
we ought to have a little more equipment. We ought to have steam and run
this steam into our cooking vat to keep it boiling at the right
temperature right along, and boil it for an hour, and then have a
mechanical agitator in the bottom of the tub that keeps it stirred up,
and keep the cover closed down as nearly tight as possible so as to
exclude the air as much as possible, letting the surplus steam escape,
and in that way we get a product as good as anything we are able to buy,
at less than half the price. If one is using a great quantity that is
the way to do it, but in small quantities I don't think it would pay to
bother with it. (Applause.)

Marketing Fruit at Mankato.

P. L. KEENE, UNIVERSITY FARM, ST. PAUL.

(Gideon Memorial Contest.)

Mankato has a population of about twelve thousand and is just about
within the car-lot market. In seasons of low production it can easily
use all the fruit grown in the vicinity, but in seasons of good
production some must be shipped out. This irregular supply makes it
difficult to obtain a satisfactory method of marketing the fruit.

Nearly all kinds of fruit are grown here. Apples, strawberries and
raspberries are grown to the greatest extent. There are several orchards
having from five hundred to a thousand trees, while many small fruit
growers have several acres of strawberries and raspberries. Plums,
blackberries, currants and gooseberries are grown on a smaller scale, so
that there is seldom enough produced to make it necessary to ship them.

The number of varieties grown is very great, as it is in almost every
locality where the industry is relatively young. There are over forty
varieties of apples grown on a more or less large scale. This makes the
marketing prob