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regarding the cost of the operations and the 

 result as shown in the fruit when harvested 

 will be furnished to the public later on when 

 full details are at hand. 



The power used in the Government de- 

 monstrations was gasoline. Other forms of 

 power have been adopted by some of the 

 large growers of the Niagara district. Jos. 

 Tweddle, of Fruitland, used compressed air 

 for spraying his orchards, and with con- 

 siderable success ; Vance Cline, of Grimsby, 

 employed gasoline ; while on the farm of D. 

 J. MacKinnon & Sons steam was the power 

 employed. The accompanying illustrations 



show the steam outfit and the gasoline outfit 

 at work. 



It is strongly recommended that growers 

 should give this matter serious consideration 

 now, so as to be ready for operations next 

 spring. Owners of three thousand or more 

 trees would do well to procure a power out- 

 fit for their operations, while those whose 

 orchards are smaller can in almost every in- 

 stance combine together to secure and ope- 

 rate an outfit of this sort, which would effect 

 a considerable saving of expense and secure 

 much more effective work. 



THE NORTHERN SPY. 



WITHOUT doubt the Spy stands un- 

 equalled as a winter apple. Its 

 long keeping qualities, and crisp, spicy, 

 liigh flavored flesh, make it a universal fa- 

 vorite with consumers, either for dessert ( r 

 cooking. When cooked in pies or sauce, 

 it possesses that rich, spicy flavor that one 

 always appreciates in a first-class cooker, 

 and after mid-winter there is scarcely any- 

 thing to equal it for dessert. It is also a 

 splendid canner, and this is another use that 

 many housekeepers make of this splendid 

 apple. When the canned fruit is getting 

 scarce toward spring, the empty cans can be 

 filled with Spys, and when properly done 

 there is scarcely anything that equals them 

 as a canned fruit. This apple is always in 

 demand in the large cities of the United 

 States, and it has often been sold at fancy 

 prices for dessert, when the samples were 

 very choice, of uniform size, clean and well 

 colored. Although of American origin, it 

 reaches greatest perfection in the Province 

 of Ontario, and especially in the Georgian 

 Bay district, although it has a wide range 



of adaptability. It is about the latest 

 variety to mature; in the Georgian Bay dis- 

 trict it does not get fully colored until near 

 the end of October, It has the merit of 

 clinging well to the tree, and is very little 

 affected by wind storms. When the ground 

 is strewn with other varieties, during the 

 autumn gales, there are very few windfalls 

 among the Spys. 



But the tree is not without faults, and the 

 most prominent one is the long time it takes 

 to come into bearing, and then its liability 

 to split in the crotches and fall apart. But 

 these faults can be remedied by top-grafting 

 it on some good hardy stock, and this is cer- 

 tainly the best way to grow the Spy. It 

 will then come into bearing much earlier; 

 the liability to splitting is avoided, and you 

 will have a long-lived tree. That growers 

 are catching on to this idea is evidenced by 

 the large demand for Talman Sweets, to be 

 used as stocks for top-grafting on, it being 

 one of the best for this purpose. — Farmers' 

 Advocate. 



