Mr. Stakman: How strong did you use the lime-sulphur?
Mr. M'Clelland: Not very strong.
Mr. Stakman: If you use very strong lime-sulphur you sometimes get such an effect on both plums and apples. Sometimes the leaves fall, and almost immediately you get a new crop of leaves.
Mr. M'Clelland: This was in August.
Mr. Stakman: There was a perfect crop of new leaves?
Mr. M'Clelland: Yes, sir.
Mr. Stakman: My only suggestion would be that you used the lime-sulphur too strong. That might account for it.
Mr. Sauter: I never sprayed until this year. I tried it this year and with good results. I sprayed my apple trees at the same time, and I sprayed the plums with the same thing I sprayed the apple trees with. I had nice plums and nice apples; last year I had hardly any.
Mr. Stakman: What did you use?
Mr. Sauter: Lime-sulphur and some black leaf mixture. I used it on the plum trees and the apple trees, and afterwards I used arsenate of lead.