DISEASES AND ENEMIES OF FRUIT. 



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Mr. Solon Robinson, for many years a well known agricultural writer, recently traveled 

 1,000 miles to see a famous Pennsylvania orchard on the Juniata river, in Juniata county, 144 

 miles from Philadelphia, near a little station called Thompsontown. &quot;There,&quot; says Mr. Rob 

 inson, &quot;if the traveler going west on the Pennsylvania railway will look out south and up 

 the steep hillside, he will see the main part of the orchard of 15,000 peach trees, 10,000 

 quince trees, and 9,000 Siberian crab-apple trees. And, if he could stop, and walk and ride 

 through the orchard, as I did to-day, and find one dead or diseased tree, he will find more 

 than I could; although I was told by Mr. Taylor, the foreman, that he did lose one tree in 

 the section where we were. And how many trees are there in this section ? Six thousand. 

 If a, like result can be found anywhere else on earth, I should like to be informed, that I 

 might make another pilgrimage of 1,000 miles to see it, as I have to see this, the most healthy, 

 thrifty, most promising young orchard I have ever seen in all my extensive journeys through 

 the United States and Canada. Yet most of the land is unfit for any other cultivation, and 

 a considerable portion of the ground has never been plowed, because so steep and so full of 

 stones and roots. The orchard is owned by H. Bradford, of Connecticut. A few years ago 

 the tract containing 440 acres came into Mr. Bradford s hands, upon the false representa 

 tion that it contained valuable veins of iron ore. He bought it unseen. &quot;When seen, it 

 was found to yield no workable ore, and only a small tract of farm land, with a few common 

 farm buildings. The question then was, &quot; What shall I do with it ? &quot; That question has 

 been answered in the splendid orchard on the ground. 



Sprinklers and Atomizers in Fruit Culture. There are many kinds of imple 

 ments employed in sprinkling trees and plants with various poisons, or other solutions for the 

 purpose of destroying the insects that, by their depredations, are a great injury to crops. 

 Prof. C. V. Riley says of such machines: &quot;Most of the machines 

 used for throwing liquid on a large scale, whether patented or not, 

 are modifications of one and the same idea and principle, viz. : a 

 barrel or other vessel to contain the liquid, a vehicle to carry it, a 

 force-pump firmly secured to the top of the barrel, and a distributing 

 nozzle, or several of them, connected with the discharge-pipe. The 

 differences they exhibit are found principally in the nature of the 

 distributors, the most successful ones being those which least clog, 

 since it is almost impossible to get such pure water that there will 

 not be some clogging material, even where strainers are used.&quot; 



FOUNTAIN PDMP IN USE. 



FOUNTAIN PUMP. 



The accompanying cuts represent the portable fountain pump or sprinkler manufactured 

 by Mr. J. A. Whitman, of Providence, R. I., showing the manner in which such machines 

 may be used. A western farmer and fruit-grower says: &quot; We have proved by two or three 

 years experiments in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin, that a solution of arsenic or 

 Paris green sprinkled on the foliage of fruit trees will as effectually destroy the canker 

 worm as Paris green does the potato beetle. For want of a proper instrument to apply the 

 solution, our experiments for some time were limited to a small scale. 



With the portable fountain pump and sprinkler, a man with a team and a driver can 

 easily sprinkle from 300 to 500 orchard trees in a day; the sprinkler throws about forty jets 



