NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



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ton, which provided for the defining of what 

 should be second grade apples, was also lost 

 on a division. The Minister of Agriculture 

 agreed that it might be advisable to make a 

 general provision in the act specifying what 

 quality of fruit should be graded XX, and 

 expressed a willingness to introduce an 

 amendment for that purpose before the close 

 of the session if it was thought necessary. 



GERMANY SHUTTING OUT AMERICAN 

 APPLES. 



I'^HE new tariff law of Germany, which 

 will go into effect as soon as certain 

 treaties have been made which must be ne- 

 gotiated in order to avoid complications that 

 would arise under the new law, provides 

 that between September i and February t 

 no apples shall be shipped into Germany in 

 packages, boxes, or barrels, or in any form 

 except in bulk. This bars the crops of the 

 United States and Australia. The crop of 

 Cankda was barred, anyway. — London Free 

 Press. 



POWER SPRAYi;fG IN THE UNITED 

 STATES. 



MR. W. A. MACKINNON, chief of the 

 fruit division, recently attended the 

 large meeting held at South Onondaga, N. 

 Y., in the Hitchings orchard, which has be- 

 come quite famous on account of the un- 

 usual methods of management prevailing 

 there. About 300 people were present ai 

 the meeting to witness the spraying demon- 

 strations, to examine the orchard, and to 

 study the system of cultivation which has 

 made it such a success. The consensus of 

 opinion among these practical orchardists 

 was that power spraying was the only 

 method suitable for large orchards, and that 

 while individual fruit growers with small or- 

 chards might not find it profitable to pur- 

 chase power outfits, yet by combining in the 



purchase and operation of the sprayer they 

 could spray all their orchards much more 

 economically than they could do it by hand. 

 In Delaware a few orchardists started to 

 use gasoline as a power, with the idea that 

 one outfit would be sufficient for several 

 farms, but they have such large orchards 

 that they have found it profitable to purchase 

 a power outfit for each. Fruit growers 

 from that State seem to be delighted with 

 the new method. When told that the Do- 

 minion fruit division was giving orchard de- 

 monstrations to show our farmers the value 

 of power sprayers, they were lavish in their 

 complimentary references to the practical 

 educational methods of the Dominion de- 

 partment. It was freely admitted that in 

 such matters Canada is in advance of the 

 United States. It is evident over there that 

 the new system has come to stay, although 

 with them it may be only the richer and 

 more extensive orchardists who will take it 

 up at first. In Canada, however, it is quite 

 practicable for a group of farmers owning 

 3,000 or 4,000 trees among them to co- 

 operate so as to have all their spraying done 

 with a power outfit costing from $250 to 

 $300. 



NEW SAN JOSE SCALE REMEDY. 



ANEW San Jose scale remedy is being 

 tested with considerable success in 

 the Niagara fruit belt. It is known as Mc- 

 Bains' Soluble Carbolic Insecticide. No 

 boiling is required. It mixes instantly with 

 cold water. It is claimed to destroy all 

 kinds of scale, fungus and parasites, and can 

 be used for spraying in winter and summer. 

 To one gallon of mixture add 25 of 

 water in winter and 50 in summer. Use as 

 a winter spray when the leaves begin to fall, 

 and as a summer spray after the buds are 

 nicelv formed. 



