GROWERS MUST BE PREPARED TO SPRAY 



RICHMOND F. ROBINSON, ST. CATHARINES, ONT. 



1^ O succeed in fruit growing a man must 

 be prepared to spray and spray care- 

 fully and regularly just as he prunes or 

 cultivates his orchard. Apart from the ad- 

 vantage to the fruit spraying is of great 

 l>enefit to the trees. They are more 

 thrifty and hold their foliage considerably 

 later in the fall. 



It is impossible for me to state how much 

 any fruit was increased in value as a result 

 of spraying last season, but 1 do know that 

 I had no unsaleable fruit on my farm last 

 year, and that by the use of lime and sul- 

 phur 1 had good crops of plums and 

 peaches. Though curl leaf was prevalent 

 I had none on any of my peach trees, ex- 

 cept 40 or 50 two-year-old Yellow St. Johns 

 which I had not sprayed. 



Mr. Blaikie, a neighbor, and I purchased 

 a Niagara gas sprayer, worked by liquid 

 carbonic acid gas, last February. I can- 

 not say how many trees we sprayed in an 

 hour, but we put 600 gallons, wine measure, 

 of lime and sulphur on in a day, and we 

 were novices. The mixture was applied 



very thoroughly even wastefully. The 

 lime and sulphur mixture is hard to put on 

 as it clogs the nozzles. We had to fill the 

 tank bucket by bucket instead of elevating 

 the barrels or pouring in by means of a long 

 funnel, as we shall do in future. With 

 sufficient nozzles 1,200 to 1,500 gallons can 

 l)c put on by three men in a day. The ma- 

 chine saves time, labor and material. I had 

 previously used a hand sprayer, and if I 

 had to pay twice what I did for the gas 

 sprayer I would do it sooner than waste 

 time with, a hand sprayer, which is as much 

 behind the times as a hand reaper. 



Lime and sulphur will not only control 

 San Jose scale, but make it a blessing in dis- 

 guise, as those who do not spray will in- 

 evitably go to the wall. If I had no scale 

 I would spray with lime and sulphur as a 

 fungicide. By applying the Bordeaux 

 mixture in time last season I succeeded in 

 checking a good deal of rot in my plums 

 and sweet cherries. If applied early 

 and frequently the Bordeaux mixture will 

 check the black rot in the grapes. 



NEW BRUNSWICK FRUIT GROWERS ORGANIZE 



W. D. ALBRIGHT, SUSSEX, N. B. 



AS secretary of the newly organized 

 New Brunswick Fruit Growers' As- 

 sociation it is my duty to inform The Horti- 

 culturist of what has been done towards or- 

 ganizing the horticultural interests in this 

 province. In December a meeting of 

 maritime horticulturists was held in the 

 Winter Fair building, Amherst, where the 

 New Brunswick Fruit Growers' Association 

 was organized wnth provisional officers as 

 follows : President, J. C. Gilman, Frederic- 

 ton ; vice-president, Geo. McAlpine, Gage- 

 town ; secretary-treasurer, W. D. Albright, 

 Sussex, and a director for each county. 

 The next meeting was held at Frederic- 



ton, January 2^, the evening following the 

 convention of the New Brunswick Farmers' 

 and Dairymen's Association. A constitu- 

 tion was adopted along much the same lines 

 as that of the Nova Scotia Association and 

 officers were re-elected with the addition of 

 a separate treasurer in H. Wilmot, of Oro- 

 mocto. A profitable session was held. 

 The membership numbers -^^2, and the bal- 

 ance of funds on hand is %2'j. It is hoped 

 a grant will be received from the local gov- 

 ernment and to carry on an active cam- 

 paign of educational and cooperative work. 

 Among the things to be taken up is the pur- 

 chase of nursery stock for members. Only 



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