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A Memsber.—Is painting without cutting any good? 
Mr. McMicnart.—It is no good unless you cut below the blight. 
Mr. Morpen.—Did anyone ever paint before the leaves came out ? 
Mr. McMicuast.—-I did for a number of years, with the body and the limbs, and 
there was no trouble. TI thought oil was a preventive ; but my impression now is that 
the virus enters mostly through the leaves, so of course it would not do any good. But 
it is a very great benefit to prevent the virus entering; you see in cutting off the limbs 
that that is the place where the virus can enter. It is very difficult to avoid making 
some little breaks in other limbs, and the painting with oil over them prevents the 
blight entering. 
Mr. Cutne.—Did you ever try leaving the blight on the tree and letting it spread ? 
Mr. McMicnaet.—No. 
Mr. Ciinr.—1 have tried it and it never has gone any further. 
Mr. McMicnarv.—In our locality there are lots of trees entirely dead. 
Mr. Ciixe.—It just killed the top limbs down four or five feet. They were pretty 
tall trees and 1 never cut them off. 
Mr. McMicuari.—Going from our place to Brantford wherever the trees were left 
they are all dead, but where part was cut out it saved the trees. 
The Secretary.—Mr. McMichael has the impression that Prof. Burrill states that 
the pear blight only enters through the bark. 
Mr. McM:rcuarut.— Yes. 
The Secretary.—Professor Burrill told me last year that the point through which 
the blight most commonly enters is through the blossoms and the young growth at the 
end of the branches. It may have been a previous statement of his that Mr. MeMichael 
saw, but I thought it best in justice to the Professor to mention it. His latest investiga 
tions seem to have convinced him that it is chiefly through the blossoms that the spores. 
of the pear Llight fungus find their entrance into the tree. Therefore just after blossom- 
ing time, as soon as we discover the least indications of blight in the blossoms or the 
leaves about it, we should carefully go over our orchards and in that way we may be able 
to save the trees. 
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Mr. McMicnaet.—My observation is that it enters more through the leaves than 
the blossoms, and in four or five days the tree is destroyed if these are not taken off. 
A Menper.—lIs there any difference as between trees that are cultivated and those 
which stand in sod ? 
Mr. McMicnaer.—lIt seems at the first output of the leaves that it is as bad in trees 
that are not thrifty, but it continues very much longer in the thrifty trees. It is also 
my observation that where trees have been manured with barnyard manure they are very 
much more liable to it than where ashes havs been used. 
APPLE PACKING. 
The Prestpent.—I have no doubt there are many here who are interested in apple 
packing. Mr. A. McD. Allan will now address us on “ Repacking apples in Britain ; 
drawbacks and advantages; why repack, and how.” 
Mr. ALLaAn.—This is a question I suggested for the purpose of drawing out certain 
information which I am interested in getting. [ suppose you are all aware that I am 
intimately connected with the Imperial Produce Company of Toronto, a company which 
is engaged in handling all kinds of Canadian produce in the British markets, and it is my_ 
wish to make special experiments in a great many lines in the interests of the fruit 
growers of Canada. This question of repacking occurred to me four years ago when 
