September, 1911 



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squash. Striped cucumber beetles are re- 

 sponsible for its spread, and in dry, hot 

 weather it spreads rapidly. The affected 

 plants wilt and eventually die. By break- 

 ing an affected vine and rubbing the ends 

 together, a certain ropiness will be noticed, 

 when the parts are pulled apart, if the true 

 wilt is present. Pull up diseased vinos and 

 burn. Kill the squash beetle. That is all 

 you can do. 



The truck farmers around Montreal surely 

 know their business, and it is one not easy 

 to learn. Lmd is worth twenty-five cents 

 a foot for market garden purposes. These 

 men bv their strict application to business 

 have become independently wealthy and are 

 known all over the countryside. Melons — 

 well, we won't say the Montreal melon — 

 speaks for itself. Here is where you may 

 find acres of cold frame. Beside that, we 

 have some ten or twelve acres under green- 

 house clars on the i.sland. On the whole 

 the siffht is good to look at and not to be 

 forpotten soon. 



Macdonald College is offering some special 

 inducemeuts to farmers and farmers' sons 

 to attend the college this coming session. 

 Under present arrangement the cost of a 

 colleee education is slight indeed, and the 

 opportunity for the young man is great. A 

 card to the Registrar brings full informa- 

 tion. 



Niagara District Notes 



L. WoolyertoB, Grimiby, Ont. 



A succession of disa.sters has visite-l the 

 fruit growers of this usually favored section 

 thii^ season. The long extended drought 

 of M'iy, June and part of July made straw- 

 berries and raspberries a very short crop. 

 The very bushes of the latter were withered 

 and dried up before their time. Then canio 

 high wind storms, which played havoc with 

 plums, peirs and apples, covering the 

 ground with immature fruit, too green for 

 marketing; and, to cap the climax, there 

 followed about August fir.st such an electric 

 and hail storm as nobody living remembers 

 the like. Now a large portion of our apples, 

 plums and peaches escaping the wind are 

 cut and bruised by the pelting hail, so that 

 they are rotting on the trees and are so 

 blemished as to be unsalable. Pears, espe- 

 cially the later kinds, are least injured, 

 their form appnrentlv having caused the 

 hail to glance off without cutting the skin, 

 but grapes have suffered most of all fruits. 



I?'it worse than wind or hail or drought 

 is a comparatively new evil known as "Lit- 

 tle Peach." Akin to Yellows, but different, 

 and if anvthing, more disi.strous. It has 

 alarmed Canadian peach growers le.st it 

 f^hould become in Ontario the scourge which 

 it has nroved in Michigan, where whole or- 

 chards have bpen destroyed and the trees 

 thrown on the flames lest it continue to 

 spread. In some Ontario orchards hundreds 

 of trees have been alreadv destroyed by 

 command of the inspectors, who claim to 

 diagnose the evil by the color of the foliage 

 and the incnrl of the leaves. The chief 

 proof to the grower, however, is the small 

 size of the fruit; peaches that .should grow 

 to a large size ripening up prematurely, al- 

 most as small as marbles. 



Noticing some of my Japan plum trees 

 affected in a very similar way, I am won- 

 dering whether this foreigner, which 

 lirought to us San Jo.se scale, is not also to 

 blame for spreading Little Peach, a disease 

 unknown before these were introduced. Pos- 

 siblv tho pollen of this plum carries the di.s- 

 ea.se to the peach. Anyway I am ordering 

 my men to cut out those plum trees with lit- 

 tle, undersized plums, which give ri.so to my 

 suspicions. I would like to hear from our 

 Michigan peach growers as to whether they 



SANITARY. ARTISTIC and TIRCPROOr it th* Terdict 

 of the critic concerning 



Metallic Ceilings and Walb 



and they are moderately priced and so easily laid. A splendid 

 "MttaliicCHlifvi <md WM, art a ^ange of new and standard 



fTfotproteetionagainitJtre-altodoaway designs tO select rrom. 

 with the diut and /ailing biti of plotter.' ^rite n» for artistic booklet teU 



—The Philoiopher of Metal Town, jng jn about them. Phone Park. 800. 

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They found the power transmitting mechanism the most 

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Don't plant another crop before you see the 

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