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slanting board, gy is 6 in. wide. To 

 operate it, place the fruit carefully upon the 

 table, the assorter occupying a chair in 

 front of the table, with a basket on his lap. 

 Both hands can then be used in removing' 

 the leaves, limbs, damaged or imperfect 

 fruit, throwing the refuse into baskets, «, «, 

 on the floor. The perfect fruit, or that 

 intended for shipment, is rolled in front. 



and passes over the incline, g, into the 

 basket. This table need cost but little, and 

 may be made in as crude or elaborate a 

 form as wished. In working, the elbows 

 can rest upon the guards, c c, which will 

 make the operation much easier. An ordi- 

 nary table can be fitted with these simple 

 appliances and quickly removed after the 

 shipping season is passed. — Farm and Home. 



YORK IMPERIAL APPLE. 



The York Imperial is being so extensively 

 grown in New Jersey that it was judged ex- 

 pedient by the Executive Committee to 

 insert a plate showing three distinct forms 

 often occurring on the same tree, kindly 

 loaned to us by the Pennsylvania Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station and to give a de- 

 scription of the apple as it appears in 

 bulletine No. 43 of same station as follows : 

 " York Imperial : — Sometimes listed in cata- 

 logues as Johnson's Fine Winter, and in its 

 native county sometimes referred to as the 

 Shep apple, Shep being a word of the 

 Pennsylvania German having reference to 

 the oblique shape of the fruit. The tree is 

 a vigorous grower with slender, drooping 



branches after the manner of Ben Davis. It 

 comes into bearing at four years after plant- 

 ing, bears regularly and heavily. The 

 foliage is remarkably free from scab. The 

 fruit is of medium size, oblong, angular, 

 oblique, smooth, skin yellow and almost 

 wholly covered with two shades of red, the 

 darker one disposed in indistinct stripe^ ; 

 basin deep ; cavity deep and narrow, stem 

 short ; flesh yellow, juicy, firm, sub-acid, 

 good ; season late winter, a good shipper, 

 bringing high prices." Mr. DeCou : I 

 think it is a mistake to speak of the York- 

 town Imperial as a second variety. It sells 

 second alone to Newtown Pippin in the Eng- 

 lish market. — New Jersey Horticul. Report. 



An Arsenic Preparation. — The spraying 

 mixture formula by Professor Kedsie of the 

 Michigan Agricultural College, is as follows : 

 Boil two pounds of white arsenic and four 

 pounds of salsoda for fifteen minutes in two 

 gallons of water. Put into a jug and label 

 "poison," and lock it up. When you wish 

 to spray, slake two pounds of lime and stir 

 into forty gallons of water, adding a pint of 

 the mixture from the jug. The mixture in 

 the jug will cost 45 cents, and this is enough 

 for 800 gallons or twenty barrels of spray. 

 These twenty barrels will require forty 

 pounds of lime, which will cost twenty 

 cents more, making the total cost 65 cents 



for twenty barrels, or 314^ cents per barrel. 

 It is claimed that Professor Kedsie's mix- 

 ture is more reliable in use than Paris green 

 as an insecticide, that it does not burn the 

 trees and is less expensive. Professor L. R. 

 Taft, of the Michigan Agricultural College, 

 thinks the salsoda in Kedsie's spraying mix- 

 ture is unnecessary, and as it adds greatly 

 to the cost of the material he does without 

 it. He says : "I prepare the arsenic mix- 

 ture by boiling one pound of arsenic with 

 two pounds of lime in two gallons of water, 

 for 30 or 40 minutes ; and for fruit trees I 

 add this to 400 gallons of water or Bordeaux 

 mixture." — California Fruit Grower. 



