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part seem to be almost entirely free from 

 worms. The pure bred Plymouth Rock is 

 his favorite. 



Canker Worm is very troublesome ?n 

 some parts of Ontario. Spraying with 

 Paris green is effective only if done when 

 the worms are very small. The best remedy 

 is to cut strips of heavy paper, fasten one 

 as a band around the trunk of each tree, and 

 smear with printers' ink. If this is done 

 in October, and kept sticky until frost, and 

 again in April and May, the female (being 

 wingless) will be unable to climb the tree to 

 deposit its eggs. 



The Hiley Peach, of Georgia, was 

 awarded the Wilder medal at the recent 

 meeting of the A. P. S. at Boston. This 

 medal is given only to one new fruit each 

 year, the one shown the committee which 

 possesses the most decided merit. 



Prof. Craig, speaking of "The Ideal 

 Fruit Growers' Home," said, in part : " To 

 secure the ideal fruit grower's home let one 

 give attention first to the site, so that he may 

 enjoy beautiful scenery that shall relieve the 

 monotony of daily toil. Let the home be 

 dignified, of simple beauty, without ginger- 

 bread ornaments, and the ideal home should 

 be built so as to save steps. With a mod- 

 ern system of lighting, rural telephone and 

 rural delivery, are we not enjoying the com- 

 forts of the city without its distractions? 

 But what is more important is the family 

 life within the house, the harmony that re- 

 sults from the expression of each individual's 

 life with due regard to the others of the 

 household." 



TO VISIT THE VARIOUS FRUIT DISTRICTS. 



IN the present issue the editor begins a 

 series of notes on his visits to the vari- 

 ous fruit districts of Ontario. His plan for 

 1904 is to seek a personal interview with the 

 more prominent fruit growers or gardeners 

 in some one district each month, to secure 

 photographs of their orchards, homes and 



faces, and to gain from each part of our 

 country those pointers which seem to be of 

 interest or profit to other sections. 



ENCOURAGING TO APPLE GROWERS. 



A FEW years ago many were so utterly 

 discouraged with the low prices of 

 apples that they were rooting out all their 

 trees. Now the situation is reversed, and 

 the apple is the most valuable product of the 

 farm. 



A British correspondent of the Farming 

 World writes : 



Canadian apple growers ought to have a 

 successful season, for the supply of home- 

 grown fruit in this country is extremely 

 short. There are many orchards which will 

 yield practically no fruit at all. This ap- 

 plies equally to eating, cooking and cider 

 apples, and in many of the poorer homes the 

 apple pudding, which is a favorite dish, will 

 be missing from the table. Not only is the 

 apple crop here short, but I understand that 

 on the continent of Europe too there are 

 hardly any orchards yielding up to the nor- 

 •nal. This is especially the case in Nor- 

 mandy and Brittany, whose far-famed ap- 

 ples this year will not be in great evidence. 

 A well-known cider manufacturer over here 

 has been scouring the country for the past 

 three or four weeks in an endeavor to buy 

 apples, but up to the present he has not yet 

 obtained sufficient for his requirements. 



The coming season ought to begin earlier 

 than usual for Canadian apples, while prices 

 too bid fair to be on the upward grade. 



W. Dickhuth & Sohn, of Hamburg, write : 



As the new season is approaching, we 

 take great pleasure to inform you that our 

 home crop of apples is a failure. It is a 

 matter of fact that we can grow no more 

 table apples in this country for years, but 

 this year we are even without the cooking 

 varieties. The heavy snowstorms just at 

 the time the apple trees were in bloom has 

 destroyed them. Although we shall want 



