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side roots entirely, and those at the base 

 to about a quarter of an inch. He would 

 plant with a dibble, watering if the soil is 

 very dry, and pressing the soil firmly with 

 the foot. 



Fig. 2304. Mr. Morris' Apple Graft as shown 

 at cobourg. 



tallow or linseed oil and beeswax, and it is 

 more or less expensive according to the pro- 

 portion of beeswax used. A very good 

 recipe is one pint of linseed oil, one pound 

 of beeswax and four pounds of resin. The 

 resin and the beeswax should first be melt- 

 ed together, and the tallow or oil be added, 

 when the whole should be well stirred up 

 together. The mixture is then poured into 

 cold water, and when cooled worked by hand 

 until ready for use. 



Stringfellow Grape Planting. — True to his 

 principles, Mr. Stringfellow advises that 

 vines be reduced practically to cuttings just 

 before planting ; first pruning the tops down 

 to almost one foot, then cutting away all 



Cheap Grades of Fruit should never be 

 shipped ; they should be sold at home for 

 cider, canning or evaporating. It is all , 

 very well to say that the fruit grower should 

 never grow second grade stuff. Theoreti- 

 cally he should not, and this is the aim of 

 the best growers, but practically there must 

 be second-class fruit when you practice sort- 

 ing and grading : some samples will be 

 curculio stung, some mis-shapen or other- 

 wise blemished and cannot go in for No. i 

 grade. 



It would be the ideal thing if every farmer 

 could have an evaporator on his own ground, 

 but he cannot. It would not pay him to 

 neglect his more important duties to try to 

 work a business with which he is un- 

 acquainted. He had better sell all such 

 stock to a well organized company, who 

 understand the business and can afford to 

 pay him a fair price. We have a number 

 of such companies in Ontario and Mr. 

 George Rilett, who has been buying largely 

 for one of these fruit packing companies, 

 surprised us the, other day with some figures: 



Tlie Simcoe Packing Company, he said, 

 has branches at Simcoe, Hamilton and St. 

 Catharines. I have been buying for the 

 Hamilton Branch alone, and I will give 

 you some idea of my purchases. In 1901 

 I bought for them from fourteen to twenty 

 carloads for evaporating, about seven car- 

 loads about Collingwood at about one cent 

 a pound, all varieties ; besides two carloads 

 of fancy varieties for canning and for jams. 

 I put about six hundred bushels in a car. 



What do you consider the best variety of 

 plums for canning ? 



The Reine Claude is one of the best for all 

 purposes. In 1899 when there was a heavy 



