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very little is required. Take a small 

 bottle (2 oz ) and get it filled with a 

 saturated solution of this compound. 

 If there is not plenty of lime in your 

 mixture, a drop of the test added to it, 

 turns brown. Add more lime and stir. 

 As soon as the test fails to color in com- 



ing in contact with your mixture, it in- 

 dicates there is sufficient lime present 

 to neutralize the effects of the copper 

 sulphate. Use wooden vessels in pre- 

 paring the Bordeaux mixture. — Special 

 Bulletin on Spraying. 



GOOSEBERRIES WITHOUT MILDEW. 



NEVER have any mildew in my 

 garden for the following reason : 

 A piece of ground must be 

 very deep and well filled with 

 good old barnyard manure ; it must 

 not be clay and must not be sand, 

 but such as you would prepare for cab- 

 bage. Plant in rows 4 feet apart and 3 

 feet apart in the row; get them in good 

 shape. The third year remove the earth 

 off the roots all round the bush and put 

 three inches of old rotten manure in its 

 place, and cover it over with the earth 

 and tap it down. Then prune severely 

 and put one half pail of wood ashes 

 upon the bush. This I do in October 

 and in the spring, and when the fruit is 

 set 1 take some fine table salt and 



sprinkle on the bush, or, what perhaps 

 is better, dissolve a handful in water 

 and sprinkle with sprays and again 3 

 weeks hence. When the mildew is apt 

 to come, do the same again later. 

 Treated in this way we have successfully 

 grown the Industry, the White Smith 

 and other varieties equally liable to 

 mildew for the past 16 years perfectly 

 free from it. So that heavy, well culti- 

 vated land, severe pruning, liberal use 

 of ashes, and the salt as I have des- 

 cribed, is all that is needed to keep 

 away mildew in this locality. I have 

 not had it in my garden in 20 years. 



John Carnie. 



Paris. 



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 MOTH. — Carpocapsa pomonella. 



H RECENT Bulletin by Mr. V. 

 Slingerland, entomologist at 

 the Cornell University Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, 

 embodying the results of his personal 

 observations of the habits of this insect, 

 contains much new information. The 

 purpose of this paper is to present only 

 such items of his discoveries as are of 

 practical importance to most of our 

 Canadian fruit growers. 



Heretofore we have been told, and 

 the writer when addressing Farmers' 

 Institutes during the last six or seven 

 years, has many times repeated the tale, 

 that the mother moth of the spring brood 

 lays her eggs in the cavity at the blossom 



end of the apple while that end is up- 

 wards, Mr. Slingerland has ascertained 

 that such is not the case. He has found 

 that in about a week after the petals 

 have fallen the calyx segments of the 

 apple blossoms begin to close up and in 

 a few days are " drawn completely 

 together, forming a tight cover over the 

 calyx cavity." On the other hand he 

 discovered "that the majority of the 

 moths do not emerge (from their co- 

 coons) until several days after the petals 

 have fallen," and that for the most part 

 the calyx cavity is tightly covered over 

 before the female moths commence lay- 

 ing. On examining their ovipositor 

 (egg laying instrument) it was found to 

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