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enemies. We are now using wire wrappers and the loss by borers is ten 

 per cent less. 



Goodman. — I have used during the last five years over 150,000 

 tree wrappers, wooden A^eneer, one-twelfth inch thick, ten inches wide, 

 eighteen or twenty inches long. The wooden wrappers I always put on 

 the trees as soon as planted. I have found them the cheapest and best 

 protection, taking all things into consideration. The pores of the wood 

 give enough air to cause a healthy growth of the bark and do not retard 

 the growth in caliper of the trees. The shade that these wooden Avrap- 

 pers give the bodies of the trees, gives enough better growth to pay for 

 putting them on. Besides this they protect from the rabbits the single 

 trees and almost an entire protection from borers. As for the injury liv 

 mice, I have lost so few of them that it is hardly worth mentioning, but 

 one thing I am always careful to do and that is to clear all weeds and 

 trash away from the trees for at least two feet. The other trouble 

 mentioned, the bark of the trees turning black, I have not had occur on 

 one tree in one thousand. I consider them so valuable that I always use 

 them but I keep the trees clean of weeds and trash. They do not 

 exclude the air or simshine enough to even make the bark tender, Imt 

 they do keep the bark bright and healthy. 



THE IMPORTAI^CE OF UXIFOEM APPLE PACKAGES. 



By John T. Snodgrass, AVest Plains. 



I hope this brief paper will lead to a general discussion, for it is 

 certainly a subject of sufficient importance to all interested in the grow- 

 ing and handling of the peer of all fruits — the apple. Eriends, you will 

 excuse me if I depart a little from my subject and state that the apple 

 should be picked when ripe, not green, or allowed to hang until over ripe. 

 Pick and sort carefully and pack only the perfect fruit. Some who have 

 large commercial orchards may pack at once in the orchard but I prefer 

 putting them in slatted crates holding a bushel each, or in open barrels; 

 haul to warehouse and there store or pack as we wish, ^ow as to pack- 

 ages I lould say three kinds. Why not pack to please the consumer, for 



