Whale-oil soap solution, allhough ciuile effective when properly applied, 

 proved too expensive for the average orchard, and lias been given up. 



The McBain Carbolic Wash is a new insecticide which has been tried fur 

 the first time in Canada this summer and has given good satistac'ion wherever 

 it has been tried. Further experiments are necessary, however, tn determine 

 if the winter applications of the Carbolic Wash will prove as succesful as the 

 summer applications. 



W. W. Hillionrs appliance for making the lime-sulphur-.salt niixtin'c. 



The lime, sulphur, and salt treatment, which the Essex fruit growers are 

 using quite freely, is extremely cheap. Mr. J. D. Wigle, of Kingsville, tells 

 me that it cost him 'but ten dollars for outside help to spray forty apple trees 

 and eight hundred peach trees with this mixture. Mr. W. W. Hilborn, of 

 Leamington, is also quite enthusiastic over the mixture. He had some hesi- 

 tation last spring in using it, but when he came to prepare it he found it much 

 simpler than he had expected. He used a boile'-. which be procured for ten 

 dollars, to supply the steam for boiling the mixture. Pie used the 15, 15, 10 

 formula. The lime he slaked slowly in a coal-oil barrel with four gallons of 

 water; then the sifted sulphur was added with sti'-ring to the hot mixture, 



