. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 12 THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, December 11, 1915 THE FARM STANDARD INSECTICIDES AND FUNGICIDES versus SECRET PREPARATIONS. [By Geo. P. Gray, U. of C] No small part of the correspondence of the Insecticide and Fungicide Lab- oratory of the University of California is in answer to questions concerning the composition or value of various proprietary remedies which are being offered for sale for the control or erad- ication of insects or Jungi. The fol- lowing is an abstract from a letter which is more or less typical of many which have been received: Unde
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 12 THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, December 11, 1915 THE FARM STANDARD INSECTICIDES AND FUNGICIDES versus SECRET PREPARATIONS. [By Geo. P. Gray, U. of C] No small part of the correspondence of the Insecticide and Fungicide Lab- oratory of the University of California is in answer to questions concerning the composition or value of various proprietary remedies which are being offered for sale for the control or erad- ication of insects or Jungi. The fol- lowing is an abstract from a letter which is more or less typical of many which have been received: Under separate cover I am sending you a small sample of a preparation which is being used and qffered for sale in this district as a secret cure for . . The man who is intro- ducing this medicine claims great and mysterious things for it and is charg- ing an extremely exorbitant price for the same. In one orchard, for in- stance, he treated something like 300 trees and claimed that his medicine cost ?2S5. I desire very much to have an analysis of this material. I have assumed that it is merely creosote or some similar substance with . coloring matter in it. The man claims, however, to have some other mysteri- ous substance mixed with ; Very often the promoters of "secret" remedies either claim or imply certain mysterious properties for their com- pounds and "new discoveries" are fre- quently mentioned. The statement is commonly found that "years of study have been spent in the perfection" of such preparations. During the four years' operation of the California In- secticide Law. scores of proprietary insecticides and fungicides have been analyzed. In no cose could any mys- terious or costly substance be found by the most searching examination, nor could any substance be detected which had not been made public as a remedy for insects or fungi. Based upon this experience, a study of the published writings on insecticides and fungicides, and of th
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