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for curl leaf. I could see no particular advantage in using Bordeaux 

 in preference to copper sulphate and had much confidence in lime-sul- 

 phur. 1 wanted to settle this dispute so I arranged for a comparative 

 i«s i of copper sulphate solution 2% pounds to fifty gallons of water 

 and commercial lime-sulphur 2\<> gals, to 50 gallons of water at 

 Hart on the farm of Benton Gebhart. The varieties selected were El- 

 berta, Francis and Engles Mammoth. Two rows of trees crossing the 

 Mocks of these three varieties were sprayed with lime-sulphur. On 

 oil her side of these two rows copper sulphate solution was used. 



When Professor Eustace and I visited the orchard about the first 

 of June, just as curl leaf was stopping, we could detect the rows of 

 trees sprayed with lime-sulphur as easily as could be. The results were 

 exceedingly plain and the lime-sulphur had almost absolutely con- 

 trolled the leaf curl. Hardly a leaf in a thousand was affected while 

 beneath the copper sulphate sprayed trees there were many leaves which 

 had curled and dropped. 



Question — AVhat time did you put that on? 



Answer — Before the buds swelled in the spring about the first of 

 April. .Many fail by waiting until the buds have swelled and the little 

 leaves appear. That is decidedly too late, for curl leaf will be already 

 intrenched if weather conditions are at all favorable. Now copper sul- 

 phate solution costs about 12i/> to fifteen cents per bbl. of 50 gallons. 

 Bordeaux about 25 cents and lime-sulphur 2y 2 to 50 about 23 cents. 

 You can take vour choice. 



SELECTING THE SITE FOR AN ORCHARD. 



TROF. H. J. EUSTACE, MICHIGAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 



There is no question but what the selection of the location for an 

 orchard is the most important matter the prospective fruit grower has 

 to decide. If mistakes are made in other matters, as the selection of 

 undesirable variety or too close planting, they can be corrected, though 

 it will mean severe losses and additional expense, but it can be done 

 but a poor site cannot be bettered. 



Any traveler in almost any part of Michigan can see thousands of 

 orchards planted in places where it would seem that not one thought 

 has been given to the location by the owner. Orchards that have never 

 produced enough fruit to pay for the trees and never will do so. The 

 big freeze of 1906 taught many Michigan fruit growers a very expensive 

 lesson but already some seem to have forgotten this and others have gone 

 into the business without knowing or informing themselves of very 

 recent horticultural history. 



In the selection of the orchard site, several things must be considered 

 together and not simply one or two as is so often done. The soil, the 

 elevation, the drainage both of the soil and air. the facilities for ship- 

 ping and securing sufficient help for harvesting must all be considered 

 together and it would be not very difficult but very unsatisfactory to 

 say which one is the most important. 



