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Mr. Brrturs.—Don’t you think it has often an opposite effect—that it harbors 
them ? 
The Secrerary.—You must be careful to take out any borers before you put the 
earth around about the trees. If they have been exposed during the season the borer ought 
to be dug out in the autumn or early spring and the trees then banked up and left 
so during June, July and August, when the moth is flying around seeking a place to 
deposit it eggs. 
A Memper.—How do you cultivate low-headed trees ? 
The Secretary.—I manage to get quite near them. I suppose the trunk will be 
two and a half or three feet from the ground, and then by keeping them well cut back 
the branches get bushy and you can get pretty close to them, especially if your harness 
is adapted for the work. 
Mr. Bitturs.—Is it an established fact that the moth of the borer places the eggs 
upon the stem of the tree or in the earth surrounding the tree. In the little experience 
I have had [ have generally found the borer a little below the surface of the ground. 
The moth certainly cannot find its way under the ground to deposit its eggs. 
The Srcretary.—I think, though I won’t say positively, that it is deposited in the 
tender bark near the surface of the earth, where the root begins, but I have noticed that 
when the larva becomes full grown it emerges from the tree and transforms in the cast- 
ings outside. 
FRUIT CULTURE IN THE NIAGARA DISTRICT. 
The PresipENT,—I find on the programe for discussion the following question : “Is 
fruit culture on the increase or the decrease in the Niagara District, and is fruit growing 
more profitable than grain and root crops, taking into consideration the large amount of 
labor, attention and fertilisers required for the fruit crop, the insect enemies, off years of 
- bearing, etc?” 
Mr. Courneen.—There is no doubt that fruit culture is on the increase. 
Mr. Batu.—Last year there was more fruit shipped from the township of Niagara 
than from the next two counties to it. 
Archdeacon McMurray.—There have been tens of thousand of peach trees put out 
this spring within three or four miles of this place. 
The Presipent.—The fact that it is on the increase may be taken as an indication 
that it is more profitable, but the question is whether it is more profitable when the 
amount of labor expended and the losses of one kind or other are taken into consider- 
ation. 
Mr. Batt —A few years ago all you could get for land here was $50 per acre, but 
now no person would think of asking less than $100 per acre or over for land suited for 
fruit culture. 
Mr. Morris.—The planting of fruit is very much on the increase every year. 
Mr. Neties.—I think it pays. We havea very fair crop every year. Thisis the 
first year we have missed having an average crop, and this spring we felt sure of having 
an immense crop. 
The Secrerary.— What do you reckon is the average profit of an acre of peaches ? 
Mr. Nevies.—I have not figured it down that fine. 
Mr. Morris.—We have an orchard of four acres of peaches, all the varieties we can 
get hold of, and one year we had $1,500 off that four acres. If the peaches had all 
been of one profitable variety we would have made three times as much as that, for 
many of the varieties did not pay anything at all. That orchard is about five years old. 
It is true that it has not since produced anything so good, but I think this year it is 
going to do fully as well. 
