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the general care of the orchards and disposing of the fruit. Heavy de- 

 mands of time are also made by fruit growers of the vicinity for ad- 

 vice on spraying and other work of almost every kind. This time is 

 always cheerfully given for this work. Among the recent troubles that 

 have been important enough to demand attention, are the green fruit 

 worm, fruit tree bark beetle, New York weevil, tarnished plant bug, 

 cottony maple scale, winter injury of the peach and the Chermes scale on 

 the white pine. 



Among the new or little known varieties of apples, the following 

 produced good crops: 



Arctic. Fameuse Sucre 



Akin. Fulton. 



Arkansas Beauty. Hamilton Black. 



Beauty of Bath. Horse. 



Black Annette. Springdale. 



Dudley. Spencer. 



Douglas Seedling. Winter Banana. 



These varieties have been described in previous station reports. 



Special mention should be made of the Winter Banana. W^e have 

 grown a number of crops of this variety. The crop last fall was especi- 

 ally fine, possibly due to the sprayings with lime and sulphur instead of 

 Bordeaux mixture. The fruit grown here compared very favorably with 

 specimens from western states on exhibition at the land show in Chicago 

 last November. Western growers complain that it is difficult to pick 

 witliout bruising. At the time for picking here, the fruit is firm and 

 does not bruise easily. Our experience leads us to believe it to be a 

 variety that should be growing in Michigan. 



The Fameuse Sucre or Sweet Snow is the handsomest and best 

 quality apple we have on trial. It is as large as a good sized Snow 

 apple, the flavor is better than the Snow, the color is almost entirely a 

 dark glossy red which is brought into attractive contrast with its white, 

 crisp, juicy flesh. It does not scab as badly as the Snow, and ripens at 

 the same time. If placed in cold storage immediately after picking, it 

 would be prime for the Christmas trade. 



To make an extensive test of the lime and sulphur as a summer spray, 

 it was used entirely in the general spraying instead of the usual 

 Bordeaux mixture. A concentrated commercial article was used at the 

 rate of one gallon to forty-nine gallons of water to which was added 

 two pounds of arsenate of lead. The result of using this on some four 

 hundred varieties of fruits, both tree and small except strawberries, was 

 satisfactory. Scab on the Flemish Beauty pear and rot on the Victoria 

 plum, which were never well prevented by Bordeiiux mixture, were al- 

 most entirely controlled this season by lime and sulphur. 



The black rot of the grapes was not well controlled by spraying with 

 lime and sulphur nor was the foilage healthy. 



The color of fruit sprayed with lime-sulphur is better than that 

 sprayed with Bordeaux. Probably because the lime and sulphur does not 



