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circulation, in consequence of infirmities arising from a dyspeptic stomach, and 

 constipated bowels, why, of course, the only remedy is to stop eating at all, or, 

 eat plenty of fruit ! Although this strain of putting things may savor of the 

 humorous, yet there is a deeply serious aspect to the case, when we reflect on 

 what momentous conditions are dependent upon apparently trivial and common- 

 place practices. 



The heavenly and the earthly, the spiritual and the physical, the thoughtful 

 and material, are all so inseparably connected, that we cannot, in our highest 

 flights of meditation and exaltation, lose sight of the need of keeping the bread- 

 and-butter side of existence in good tone as a necessary adjunct to our daily 

 meals. The fruit-growing fraternity then, if not entitled to the initials M.D., 

 are surely claimants, and rightly so, to the title of P.B., as public benefactors. 

 And although not counted on the high social plane of the learned professions^ 

 still that is no reason why we should not be, and while 



" Along the cool sequestered vale of life, 

 We keep the even tenor of our way," 



we can rejoice in the happy inward consolation, that though we are not basking 

 in the full blaze of public admiration, we fill a little niche of usefulness that 

 even more pretentious organizations might be proud of. Further, the deponent 

 saith not. 



L. FOOTE. 



The Bordeaux Mixture was applied by the Kentucky Experiment 

 Station with the following result : Throughout the summer the trees to which 

 the mixture was applied were more thrifty in appearance, owing to the more 

 healthy green and better general state of the foliage. In every case the leaves 

 began to fall sooner from untreated than from sprayed trees. The proportion 

 of fruit rotting to that not rotting was in every case lessened. Spraying with the 

 Bordeaux mixture will save from rotting 7 to 31% of the whole number of 

 apples. The average increase in crop due to spraying was 97 lbs. of fruit per 

 tree. This increase was due to several causes, among which may be mentioned 

 the saving from rot and the prevention of scab on both foliage and fruit, thus 

 increasing the size of the fruit. To test the relative keeping qualities of sprayed 

 and unsprayed fruit, 100 apples free from scab were selected from those that had 

 been sprayed, and an equal number of scabby apples from those that were not 

 sprayed. The apples were stored Oct. 30, and examined at frequent intervals? 

 the rotten fruit being counted and removed from each tree. It was found at the 

 end of two weeks that there were nearly three times as many rotten apples 

 among the unsprayed as among the sprayed. There was somewhat less difference 

 between the two lots later in the season, but the sprayed kept better than the 

 unsprayed, and kept longer. In every case some of the sprayed were sound 

 when all of the unsprayed had rotted. 



