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H E T I C U L T tJ R E 



November 1, 1913 



APPLE TREE ANTHRACNOSE 

 SHOULD BE TREATED NOW. 



Oregon Agricultural College, Cor- 

 vallis, Oregon. Apple tree antti- 

 racnose should be treated as soon 

 after the fruit is picked as possible by 

 spraying the trees with Bordeau mix- 

 ture, 6-6-50 solution, and where the 

 disease is very serious it is advisable 

 to spray before picking the fruit, ac- 

 cording to the recommendations of 

 Professor H. S. Jackson, Plant Path- 

 ologist of the Oregon Agricultural Col- 

 lege. 



"Growers should begin to make prep- 

 arations for the annual fall spraying 

 for apple tree anthracnose," said Pro- 

 fessor Jackson. "The disease seems 

 to have increased during the last sea- 

 son, especially in orchards that were 

 not sprayed. It is important that the 

 spray be put on early, and in case of 

 young orchards not bearing it may be 

 applied at once. Where the disease is 

 very abundant and causing serious 

 damage, two sprayings should be put 

 on, about three weeks apart. All these 

 sprayings are more effective if appli- 

 cation is made before the fall rains. 



"If possible all the more seriously 

 infected branches should be pruned 

 out before spraying, but the spraying 

 is more important and should be given 

 the preference. Pruning may then 

 follow the spraying, and all branches 

 which are cut out should be immedi- 

 ately removed from the orchard and 

 burned. 



"Where cankers are formed it is 

 best to clear out the old bark, and 

 if wounds are large, cover the exposed 

 wood with grafting wax or paint. The 

 dead bark in cankers is a source of in- 

 fection for three years, besides which 

 it offers protection to various insects, 

 especially the wooly aphis. 



"As supplementary to spraying, 

 cankers that are detected on very 

 young trees in the winter may be pre- 

 vented from developing by shaving off 

 the thin outer layer of bark." 



REGISTRATION AT THE MASSA- 

 CHUSETTS AGRICULTURE 

 COLLEGE. 



Figures just received from the of- 

 fice of President Butterfield of the 

 Massachusetts Agriculture College 

 show very strikingly the remarkable 

 growth of the college in the past fif- 

 teen and in the last five years, espec- 

 ially. From 132 students in 1898, the 

 number has increased to 604 at tne 

 present time. Of these, 98 are seniors, 

 105 juniors, 140 sophomores, 200 fresh- 

 men, 38 post graduate students and 23 

 specials or unclassified. This is an in- 

 crease of 357.6 per cent in fifteen 

 years. Since 1908, five years ago, the 

 number has increased from 278 to 604, 

 an increase of 117.3 per cent. From a 

 graduating class of 11 in 1898, this 

 has increased to 90 in the class of 

 1913. These figures give a fair idea of 

 the growth of the Agricultural College 

 so far as resident students are con- 

 cerned, but take no account of the es- 

 tablishment and remarkable growth of 

 the Bxtension Service of the Experi- 

 ment Station. These two divisions of 

 the College, which come into such di- 

 rect contact with the farmers of the 

 State, must be considered, if a true 

 conception of the growth of the Col- 

 lege is to be secured. 



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THE GARDENER'S PLACE. 



Your notes in issue of September 

 18th on Mr. Ebel's paper read at the 

 October meeting of ,the Boston Flor- 

 ists' Club certainly prove that Mr. Ebel 

 knows what be is talking about when 

 he advises that the gardener endeavor 

 by attire, deportment and patient fidel- 

 ity to foster closer confidential rela- 

 tionship between his employer and 

 himself. Although it appears on the 

 surface that many gardeners get along 

 well with their employer, in reality 

 they do not get along; they merely 

 drag along for the reason that they 

 are entirely out of harmony with their 

 employer and are much like Mr. Ebel's 

 critics, fifty years behind the times as 

 far as private gardening is concerned. 

 Their training in Europe makes them 

 better fitted for commercial work, and 

 if they could secure reasonable re- 

 muneration for the work done, very 

 few of them would be on a private 

 estate. When we hear that same old 

 cry, "educate the gardener." he "ought 

 to study more." etc., etc.. it is suffi- 

 cient to make a Missouri mule laugh. 

 As our friend. Mr. Cameron, states, 

 there is no class of workmen who 

 study more along their chosen line of 

 work than the gardener. He is at it 

 all the time. The fact is. he studies 

 too much gardening. If his makeup 

 consisted of three parts of what Mr. 

 Ebel stated and one part gardener he 

 would be better qualified and more in 

 harmony with his employer. He is 

 too practical. He depends entirely on 



results to satisfy his employer. If we 

 examine the horticultural make-up of 

 most employers we find they are igno- 

 rant and many of them e.\tremely so; 

 consequently, the practical gardener 

 and the ignorant employer are as far 

 apart as the earth and the moon. It 

 looks to me that the problem to be 

 solved is not so much how to become 

 a capable landscaper or a plant grower 

 as It is how to harmonize these two. 

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