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TALKS WITH THE FRUIT GROWERS. 



I had my young trees protected with old 

 stove pipe against mice. — (Wm. Cook, York Co. 



Having land plowed in orchards, not so much 

 damage was done as where grass has been in 

 QifCerent parts. — (A. McDonald, Grey Co^ 



There has not been spraying enough done in 

 this district for any particular benefit to be de- 

 rived. — (I. Smith, Northumberland Co. 



Present season likely to be a good fruit year. 

 Buds not out yet and all vermin killed by cold. 

 Spraying only useful 1 out of 10 times. Plenty 

 of fruit buds. — (L. Conant, Ontario Co. 



I have found no difficulty this spring spray- 

 ing peach trees 10 years old, which touched in 

 the rows, by means of my Wallace power 

 sprayer. This sprayer has proved satisfactory 

 in evei^y way. Any growers who would like to 

 see it in operation are invited to visit my or- 

 chard. — (J. Wi Smith & Son, Winona, Ont. 



I have saved my apple trees when girdled by 

 mice in the following manner : I use fresh cow 

 manure and wrap it with a cloth around the 

 tree, tying securely. Trees 6 or 7 years old, 

 that were completely girdled, have been saved 

 in this way. — (A. J. Lace, Northumlberland Co. 



Many fruit buds have been destroyed by the 

 severe winter. Orchards with long grass have 

 suffered badly from mice. — (A. E. Bellman, Dur- 

 ham ^o. 



The present cool weather will delay blossom- 

 ing until late and may mean a good crop of 

 apples.' — (.^imer Lick, Ontario Co. 



Cannot tell what injury trees have suffered 

 from frost, but I think very little, as snow was 

 deep and remained all winter. Expected more 

 trees would be girdled than there are. — (W. T. 

 Weir, Ontario Co. 



Currant, gooseberry and raspberry bushes 

 very much .damaged by crust on heavy snow. — 

 (P. D. Stubbs, Muskoka Co. i 



I am going to spray the first day it is fit, and 

 with the lime, sulphur and caustic soda, as 

 given in the April Horticulturist, for the oyster 

 shell bark louse, which is very bad in this dis- 

 trict. — (A. D. Harkness, Dundas Co. 



There are far to many poor varieties of fruit 

 and too little top grafting is done. Give farm- 

 ers a bonus for grafting and spraying instead 

 of railroads. — (J. G. Graham, Grey Co. 



Am very busy shipping apples now ; selling 

 very good. Have kept good Baldwins, Spys, 

 Russetts and Ben Davis. — (W. W. Cox, Grey Co. 



Very little spraying done in our locality ; 

 farmers have very little faith in it from tests 

 generally. Some trees have been girdled with 

 mice as many as 10 to 15 per cent. — (C. Hoare, 

 Huron Co. 



My plum trees have been out five years last 

 fall, and they have Iborne plums for three years. 

 They are full of buas now, if the frost does not 

 kill them. — (A. Swazzer, Monch Co. 



Most severe season I have ever seen. Late 

 frosts so severe that many of the spring birds 

 were frozen to death. — (Frank Metcalf, Huron 

 Co. 



Last year, out of 200 trees, I lost 83 trees 

 by mice. Last fall I put common screen door 

 netting around the trees to a height of one foot. 

 — (Samuel Cherry, Norfolk Co. 



The mice have done large damage even to 

 large apple trees, by girdling them. The frost 

 has apparently killed many peaches ana plums, 

 as far as can be seen now.— (C. S. Coatsworth, 

 Kent Co. 



A? an advertising medium for selling straw- 

 berry plants, The Canadian Horticulturist is 

 away in the lead. From an advertisement in 

 The Horticulturist my yearly sales have more 

 than doubled. — (Charles H. Snow, Strawberry 

 Plant Nurseries, Cummings Bridge, Ont. 



We recommend The Canadian Horticulturist 

 to any person requiring a purely horticultural 

 paper for advertising purposes. — (J. A. Sim- 

 mers, Wholesale Seed -Merchant, Toronto, Ont. 



The Canadian Horticulturist is an excellent 

 medium in which to advertise our business, and 

 we are glad to recommend it as such. — (John A. 

 Bruce & Co., Seed Merchants, Hamilton, Ont. 



sfe Orchard Monarch 



is the spraying machine which should receive the attention 

 of large sprayers. It is a mounted sprayer carrying ISO gal- 

 lons of liquid. The force for operating is supplied by the mere 

 movement of wagon by means of hind wheel gearings. It 

 is intended for large orchard operations and is a 



Perfect AutomaLtic Sprayer. 



Driving from tree to tree generates power— 130 lbs 

 to the inch — to spray five minutes with two nozzles 

 and reach top of tallest trees. It also operates 

 automatically the liquid agitator and brush for 



cleaning suction strainer, so that vines and fulia^^e are never 

 scalded nor burned and nozzles never cloj^. Tlie Monarch, as 

 the name suggests, is the peer of sprayers for large orchard op- 

 erations. We manufacture many kinds and sizes of sprayers for 

 all purposes. Writeusforanythingin the spraying line, formu- 

 las, appliances, et:., aiii aslc fjr oar F/aa book on s.).'j.yia^. 



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