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bably been seriously injured. In a few days it 

 will be possiibJe to tell more definitely what the 

 damag-e amounts to. Wood, particularly on the 

 east side of the branches, has been badly in- 

 jured. Where the snow was blown away or ice 

 laid the roots have been partially destroyed. 

 The roots of trees in sod. and of trees covered 

 with snow during the winter, are sound. 



LAMBTOX COUNTY. 



Peach buds are in fair condition, although 

 danger of late frosts is not over yet. Trees 

 wintere-^ well. 



HALTON COUNTY. 



Tender varieties of peaches were frozen, al- 

 though, on the whole, trees wintered well. Two 

 to 5 per cent, have been injured by mice or 

 frost. The buds on the hardy varieties look 

 well, enough being alive for a fair crop. Ten- 



der varieties one year planted, and those bear- 

 ing heavy buds last season, suffered from the 

 hard winter. 



NORFOLK COUNTY. 



Nearly all the peach trees in the vicinity of 

 Simcoe were killed by the severe winter. I had 

 1,400 trees killed. Great damage was done 

 young trees by mice. Not as many new trees 

 have been set this year as usual. 



WELLAND COUNTY. 



Peach trees wintered without injury in Bertie 

 township, none being destroyed either by mice 

 or frost. Fruit Ibuds are well advanced. 



About half the young trees in the vicinity of 

 Fonthill have been injured by mice or frost. 

 Not many new plantations are being set out. It 

 is still too early to judge the condition of fruit 

 buds. 



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Apple and plum trees have an abundance of 

 buds anu are in excellent condition. Sweet 

 cherry buds badly killed. Peach fruit bud 

 varieties more or less damaged. Grapes not in- 

 jured. — (W. M. Orr, Wentworth Co. 



Plum orchards look badly. Don't think there 

 will be much this year, as they bore so heavy 

 last year. — (H. P. Townsend, Lincoln Co. 



Plum rot was quite bad last year, therefore 

 quite a number of trees have been destroyed. — 

 (Samuel Brigham, York Co. 



The number of growers who will spray this 

 year will be greatly increased. Former bitter 

 opponents to this treatment of trees are now 

 most anxious to fall into line and thus save their 

 orchards. — (Wm. Armstrong, Lincoln Co. 



About one-fifth of the young trees have been 

 girdled by mice. Cannot t^U of damage by frost 

 to fruit trees until after the leaves come out. — 

 (G. C. Brown, Welland Co. 



Grapes look well. Good prospects for full 

 crop if no late frosts appear. — (S. P. Townsend, 

 Lincoln Co. 



Peach buds nearly all killed by frost. Few 

 live buds to be found. — (S. P. T., Lincoln Co. 



In my opinion, between mice and frost, fruit 

 crop will be very small this year. — (C. Sloat, 

 Lincoln Co. 



Orchards slightly damaged by water. Out of 

 2,000 peach trees 200 have .been killed ; other- 

 wise orchards are in fair condition. — (Geo. 

 Chalmers, Kent Co. 



Takes too many men to work our present 

 spraying outfits. A one-man rig auto-sprayer 

 is needed to fill the bill. — (S. S'pillet, Simcoe Co. 



Wood in older trees is partly killed, but the 

 young trees are apparently all right. — (A. Fer- 

 ris, Essex Co. 



Fruit in this locality wintered fairly well ; 

 mice have damaged shrubs and ornamental 

 "trees baaly. — (D. James, York Co. 



There will be very few plums this year. A 

 good show of apples, cherries and pears if 

 weather is favorable. — (Wm. Adams, Ontario 

 Co. 



Old trees did not make much growth this 

 year ; no crop expected. Young vigorous trees 

 about one-third of the buds alive. Should be 

 enough for crop if not injured by frost. — (F. G. 

 Stewart, i^incoln Co. 



Tender peaches, one-year planted trees, and 

 those bearing heavy loads last season, have suf- 

 fered from the hard winter. — (W. V. Hopkins, 

 Halton Co. 



My escape from the ravages of mice I at- 

 tribute to a good collie dog and a good cat kept 

 at the barn, but not at the house. — (J. J. Col- 

 lins. Lincoln Co. 



A great deal more spraying is being done in 

 my neighborhood than in the past, and I think 

 the sooner growers all get in the way of spray- 

 ing the better. — (J. A. Swan, Simcoe Co. 



Not much spraying done here. A neighbor 

 and I have a barrel sprayer, the only one I know 

 of around here. — (Jas. Chandler, Simcoe Co. 



Where there was a profusion of rubbish mice 

 have girdled young trees more than usual, and 

 the more tender fruits, such as the peach, are 

 injured ; some winter plums are safe. — (W. A. 

 Parsons, York Co. 



Some varieties of fruit are more susceptible 

 to frost than others. Exposed places are noted 

 as being somewhat injured. — (D. James, York 

 Co. 



AoouL half the people spray ; I think people 

 don't spray often enough during the year. Ma- 

 jority only spray once. — (A. E. Clemens, Dur- 

 ham Co. 



I had about 150 apple trees girdled by the 

 mice, 12 plum and 15 peach trees. Nearly all 

 the apple trees were 10 years planted and had 

 just begun to bear. — A. H. Jacobs, Huron Co. 



