June, 1914 



THE CANADIAN HOETICULTURIST 



have been arriving: regularly in large quan- 

 tities for some years, and are a fully estab- 

 lished market. 



"The value of the imports of dried apples 

 and apple waste is given at 10,619,000 marks 

 for a quantity of fourteen thousand seven 

 hundred and forty-eight metric tons, al- 

 most the whole of which is credited to the 

 United States. Canada's shipments to 

 Germany are known to have been on a con- 

 siderable scale in 1913, certainly not lesi 

 than one thousand tons, and these are un- 

 doubtedly included in the receipts credited 

 to the United States, the Canadian article 

 being generally shipped through American 

 ports. The German market for good quali- 

 ties of this article is increasing." 



Bird and Insect Life 



Editor, The Canadian Horticulturist,— 

 Will not you through the columns of The 

 Canadian Horticulturist, call attention to 

 the economic value of the birds, bees, and 

 butterflies to tree and plant life ? Even the 

 despised British sparrow is the best "fly- 

 swatter" we possess, frequenting, as it 

 does, the manure heaps and garbage piles, 

 just where the house fly loves to breed. 



Could all your readers not place in their 

 gardens a hollow pan of water for the 

 birds, thus preventing them from attacking 

 fruit, as it is thirst which drives them to 

 the latter. If fruit growers, instead of kill- 

 ing robins and blackbirds (which, by the 

 way, is against the law, except for fruit 

 growers during the ripe fruit season), would 

 plant mulberry trees in a comer of their 

 orchard the birds will flock to them and 

 leave other fruit alone. 



R. BRIERLEY, 



Manager, Elgin Humane Society, 



St. Thomas, Ont. 



Powdery Scab of Potatoes 



Some time ago it was found that there 

 existed in the eastern provinces of Canada, 

 rix.. Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, 

 New Brunswick, and Quebec, a disease of 

 the potato tuber known as Corky or better. 

 Powdery Scab, which had probably been 

 present, at least in some localities, lor a 

 number of years, but not distinguished 

 from the disease known as Common Scab. 



While this disease, under Canadian con- 

 ditions, has so far only in one instance 

 given indications of being more destruc- 

 tive than Common Scab, it is nevertheless 

 a very undesirable malady to have per- 

 manently established in potato growing 

 land. As a result of the discovery of Pow- 

 dery Scab, the United States authorities, 

 through fear of introducing the disease, 

 have enacted that potatoes shall not enter 

 the United States except under a rigorous 

 system of certification, which includes a 

 certificate to the Potato Canker or Powdery 

 Scab exists. If the export with the United 

 States is to be regained in face of the ex- 

 isting regulations the methods directed to- 

 wards the eradication of the disease must 

 be followed intelligently and, in a thorough 

 spirit of cooperation. 



In order to familiarize the farmers of 

 Canada with this disease, Mr. J. W. East- 

 ham, Chief Assistant Botanist of the Cen- 

 tral Experimental Farm, has prepared a 

 comprehensive circular entitled "Powdery 

 Scab of Potatoes," which is Farmers' Cir- 

 cular No. 5 of the Division of Botany, and 

 is available to all who make application for 

 it to the Publications Branch of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture, Ottawa. The 

 nature, symptoms, and preventive methods 

 are fully outlined, and the following sum- 



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