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nursery and help the sale of fruit trees ? We 

 notice even in the annual report of the 

 School of Horticulture of Nova Scotia the 

 following statement : 



"As an instance of the revenues growers are 

 securing from their orchards I may cite a small Non- 

 pareil orchard belonging to Mr. W. C. Healy, of 

 Round Hill, Annapolis County. There is about an 

 acre of land in the orchard, which gives two hundred 

 barrels of apples. These sold at ^2.50 per barrel, or 

 .$500 for the acre. Deducting 50c. a barrel, which is 

 Mr. Healey's estimate of expenses, we have .$400 left 

 as the profit on the acre, which is not at all bad." 



We presume this is an advertisement of 

 Mr. Healey's farm, in order to sell it for an 

 ■extravagant price to some innocent capital- 

 ist; otherwise how are we to explain this 

 statement, given without comparison with 

 less profitable orchards? Why does the re- 

 port not qualify the statement by at least 

 saying that it was exceptional, or that as a 

 rule the orchard only gives a crop each al- 

 ternate year? 



Arsenite of Lime Instead of Paris 

 Green — Cheaper and Better 



OF the substitutes for Paris green this 

 one seems to be the cheapest, not 

 being quite half the price of that article. It 

 remains suspended in water much longer 

 than Paris green, and it can be conveniently 

 made at home. 



The following directions for making and 

 handling arsenite of lime are given in the 

 M. A. C. Record : 



"Dissolve the arsenic by bottling with carbonate 

 of soda, and thus insure complete solution ; which 

 solution can be kept ready to make a spraying solu- 

 tion when wanted. To make material for SOO gal- 

 lons of spraying mixture boil two pounds of white 

 arsenic with eight pounds of sal soda (crystals of 

 carbonate of soda, 'washing soda,' found in every 

 grocery and drug shop) in two gallons of water. 

 Boil these materials in any iron pot not used for 

 other purposes. Boil for fifteen minutes or until the 

 arsenic dissolves, leaving only a small muddy sedi- 

 ment. Put this solution into a two gallon jug and 

 label 'Poison, stock material for spraying mixture. ' 



" The spraying mixture can be prepared whenever 

 required, and in the quantity needed at the time, bj^ 

 slaking two pounds of lime, adding this to forty 

 gallons of water, and pouring into this a pint of the 

 stock arsenic solution. Mix by stirring thoroughly, 



and the spraying mixture is ready for use. The 

 arsenic in this mixture is equivalent to four ounces 

 of Paris green." 



Fig. 2778. Mr. J. L. Hilborn, Leamington. 



Our Director for Essex 



IN giving out readers an account of our 

 Leamington meeting, we had hoped to 

 also give a sketch of Mr. J. L. Hillborn, our 

 director for that section, whose untiring 

 energy over details so much of the success 

 of that meeting was due. 



For a long time Mr. Hillborn has been a 

 familiar name, as being one of the leading 

 fruit growers of Lambton County. About 

 eight years ago he removed from Arkona to 

 Leamington for the purpose of taking up 

 peach growing. Here he purchased a 

 peach farm right along the north shore of 

 Lake Erie, and named it Peach Bluff. 

 Forming a partnership with Mr. McLaugh- 

 lin, who has been in his employ for eleven 

 vears past, he set twenty-eight acres to 

 peaches, a few acres to sweet cherries and 



