The Canadian Horticulturist. 



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cover was missing, so I invertcU it, 

 making the bottom answer for a top. 

 I removed one side, cleating the 

 pieces together near each end and 

 put leather hinges on, fastening it to 

 the former bottom, but now the top 

 of the concern. At the loose corners 

 I nailtKl on an inch-square strip to 

 hold them firm. Inside, on each of 

 the ends I nailed half-inch strips, 

 two inches apart, as slides for the 

 trays to run upon. The trays were 

 made of strips of half inch stuff, one 



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inch wide, halved in at the corners 

 and braced by diagonal wires. They 

 are covered with white mosquito- 

 netting. 



At the top and side furthest from 

 the door hinges, I removed a piece of 

 the top two inches wide. I then 

 made a chimney two inches wide, 

 two feet long and a foot high, which 

 I placed over the opening and nailed 

 fast. After supper, when the even- 

 ings are long, we all set to work at 

 the apples, and putting a few pieces 

 of wood in the stove, begin filling 



the trays, the lowest [first. As the 

 second tray is prepared, the first one 

 is moved up and the new one put in 

 next to the fire, until the evaporator 

 is full. The evaporator is placed on 

 four pieces of brick, stood edge-wise 

 on the stove at the corners of the 

 machine. The apples dry off the 

 first evening to some extent, and 

 when the work is done up the follow- 

 ing day the evaporator ma)- be lifted 

 on again, and by evening the fruit is 

 ready to put away. 



My method of cutting apples is to 

 peel, and take off two slices from 

 each end, then core, and slice the 

 remainder to a thickness of one- 

 fourth of an inch. The trays should 

 be made one or two inches narrower 

 than the box and arranged so that 

 the hot air is driven from front to 

 rear and back again as in the sketch, 

 which gives a sectional view of the 

 evaporator. The door is hung at the 

 top as shown, but should be kept 

 closed except when putting in or 

 removing trays. 



A Cook Stove Dryer is shown in 

 fig. 48, which is sold for $7, and 

 only weighs twenty-five pounds, but 

 this is made in Waynesboro, Pa. 

 For those farmers who have large 

 orchards and wish to go largely into 

 the evaporating of fruit for market, 

 we may mention that we are just in 

 receipt of a catalogue of Fruit Evap- 

 orators, from Cincinnati, Ohio. 

 They are made in six sizes and 

 impress us favorably. No. 3, 

 fig. 49, weighs 600 pounds, and 

 its capacity is 15 to 20 bushels 

 of apples per day ; it has a furnace 

 with grate for coal, and will also 

 burn cord wood. It is catalogued at 

 !ii>ioo. 



Goosebepry Maggot 



45. Is there any remedy for the gooseberry 

 maggot ? Some insect lays an egg in the 

 berry, when about two-thirds grown, causing 

 the berries to fall to the extent of one-third 

 or more of the crop The frowning is most 

 afifected. I have carefully watched for 

 something on this pest, in \nin The worm 



