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the most sceptic that the operation is a paying one. One hundred unsprayed 

 apples filled a half-bushel basket evenly full, as shown in the accompanying 

 illustration, and one hundred of the average sprayed apples filled a half-bushel 

 basket twice. Thus the bulk of the crop of the Maiden Blush was practically 

 doubled. 



Mr. Lodeman further affirms that the keeping qualities of apples were also 

 improved by spraying. He experimented with some Fall Pippins and Maiden 

 Blush, from both the sprayed and unsprayed portions of the tree, gathering 

 them about the 20th of September, and storing them in a cool, dry cellar. On 

 the 15th of October the unsprayed apples began to show signs of shrivelling, 

 and on the i8th of November they were much shrivelled, and some decayed, 

 while the sprayed apples were still plump and fit for market. 



With regard to the use of Paris green for the codling moth, Mr. Lodeman's 

 experiments went to show that many varieties of apple trees were susceptible to 

 injury from too frequent applications of this poison, and that one or two appli- 

 cations were as many as the average tree would bear without injury, unless the 

 strength of the poison was somewhat counteracted by the use of a considerable 

 quantity of lime. 



Some experiments were also made with fungicides upon the foliage of the 

 peach, and of all the preparations that were applied, the Bordeaux mixture least 

 of all affected the foliage injuriously. * 



A BALANCED WHEELBARROW. 



The wheelbarrow plays no small part in the making and the after care of 



the ordinary garden, but it has its limitations and its disadvantages, one of the 



latter being the severe strain upon the muscles 

 when wheeling a full load, since the person be- 

 tween the handles must lift from a quarter to a 

 third of the whole load in addition to propel- 

 ling the whole. A barrow having two wheels is 

 shown in the illustration, engraved after a sketch 

 by Webb Donnell, on which the load may be 

 almost perfectly balanced, leaving the one using 

 it little more to do than to move it forward. 

 It has removable end boards at either end, and 

 The drop axle here figured may be used, or 



small wheels with the end of the axle bent in exactly the opposite direction. 



The wheels may be of a width to run ou each side of a garden row. — American 



Agricultunst. 



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— TWO-WIIKELKI 



i>KS Barrow. 



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can be dumped from the rear. 



