The Canadian FIorticulturist. 

 HENS IN THE ORCHARD. 



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Many fanners or orchardists would like to have hens in the orchard for the 

 good their presence would do the trees,- were it not that the fowls must be kept 

 confined because of the damage they would do the adjacent garden and flower 



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Fig.— 993. Movable SruMKR Poultry House. 



beds. The sketch shows a way to keep one or more flocks of hens in an orchard. 

 A. light, low house, made of half-inch matched stuff", has a wire run attached to 

 the end, as shown in the illustration. The house has no floor. The eggs are 

 gathered by opening a hinged board in the end. Low trucks are attached to the 

 corners so that the whole can be moved occasionally to a new location. It can 

 thus be moved up and down beside the row of trees, stopping for a day or two 

 under each tree, scratching, fertilizing the ground and destroying insects. The 

 fowls all do well under such conditions, and their presence will be of great 

 value to the orchard. The lower sill of the sides of the house should continue 

 out and form the base of the sides of the run. — Amer. Agriculturist. 



The Phylloxera in Canada— This morning (3rd August) Mr. Chester 

 Hunter, of Grimsby, brought us a branch of a grape vine badly affected with 

 this insect, which we photographed in order to show our readers how it affects 

 the foliage and to warn them against it. The leaves are covered with galls; each 

 of which contains two or three full-grown insects and a hundred or more eggs. 

 Cutting down through one of the galls these eggs could be plainly seen with weak 

 power of the microscope. As the eggs begin to hatch the gall becomes over- 

 crowded, and the full-grown lice emerge through the opening in the upper surface 

 of the leaf and soon cause new galls in which they take up their abode. Mr- 

 Fletcher, of Ottawa, has kindly written for us a note on the Phylloxera, which 

 appears on page 308, where also see engraving above referred to. 



