SPRAYING ON THE INCREASE. 



is to educate the young men away from the 

 farms. A horticuhtiral college would tend 

 to keep our boys on the fann." 



]\Ir. Honsiberger, of Jordan, pointed out 

 that 'hyfbridizing fruit is an operation 

 which is receiving a great deal of attention 

 and which has accomplished wonderful re- 

 sults. He was of the opinion that a horti- 

 cultural college and a fruit experimental 

 farm might, by following up this line of 

 work, be able to produce such varieties as 

 the fruit growers of the Niagara district 

 need for shipment to distant markets. 



It was pointed out by Mr. W. J. Drope, 

 of Grimsby, that fruit growers through 

 ignorance frequently plant varieties of 

 fruit whidh afterwards prove very unprofit- 

 able. If they had a thoroughly equipped 

 college and experiment station, which could 

 give reliable information of this nature, loss 

 of this kind could be avoided. Other speak- 



ers included Air. J. A. Keyes, of St. Catha- 

 rines, and Mr. Niciholson, of Hamilton. 



In replying to the deputation Hon. Mr. 

 Monteith expressed the Premier's regrets 

 that he was unable to be on hand to meet the 

 deputation. The Minister of Agriculture 

 stated that as yet the new government -s 

 only getting its feet in the stirrups and con- 

 sequently it is not in a position to give an 

 answer immediately to such an important 

 request. The members- of the deputation 

 were assured that the department realizes 

 the importance of the matter arud that it will 

 do all in its power to assist them. 



Hon. J. S. Hendrie asked the deputation 

 if the Dominion government had been ap- 

 proached. Mr. Honsberger stated in reply 

 that the Department of Agriculture at Otta- 

 wa had been asked for assistance, but had 

 stated that it could not take the matter up 

 at present. 



A GREAT INCREASE IN SPRAYING 



a IT is astonishing how stirred up fruit 

 A growers are this year over spraying. 

 Men are spraying who never sprayed before, 

 while those who have sprayed in other years 

 are spraying more thoroughly. They real- 

 ize that if they are to successfully combat 

 the grape and plum rot, apple scab and other 

 troubles fruit growers are heir to, they have 

 simply got to spray. For every power 

 sprayer used in this vicinity last year there 

 are three being operated this season." 



These remarks were made to an editorial 

 representative of The Horticulturist a few 

 days ago by Mr. Murray Pettit, of Winona, 

 who conducts the fruit experiment station 

 at that point, and who is known as one of 

 the most successful fruit growers in the 

 Niagara district. The Horticulturist's re- 

 presentative, who visited the section to ascer- 

 tain what the growers are doing this year in 

 the line of spraying, was astonished at the 

 evidence on every hand of the amount of 

 that work that was beinsr done. Orchard 



after orchard Avas passed where the trees 

 were almost perfectly white, they had been 

 sprayed so thoroughly. The main topic 

 being discussed by the fruit growers who 

 were seen was spraying, and it included 

 such subjects as the spraying experiments 

 being conducted by Prof. Lochhead, of the 

 Agricultural College at Guelph, the test that 

 was recently made on the farm of Mr. E. D. 

 Smith, of Winona, oi different imakes of 

 spraying machinery, or so'me of the new 

 spraying mixtures which are being intro- 

 duced this year. 



"' In former years," conitinued Mr. Pettit, 

 " I used a barrel Spramotor pump which 

 had three nozzles. It was operated by hand, 

 and by pushing tne work I was able to ap- 

 ply eight barrels of mixture in a day. This 

 year I decided to secure a larger outfit which 

 I could use to advantage on my grapes. 

 After looking over the various machines on 

 the market I finally decided to secure a 

 spra\'ing outfit from the Spramotor Com- 



