.Tamiary, 1922. 



SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE. 



167 



Control. 



Whatever tlie speeifie orgraiiism it is 

 reasonably certain that in Canada it eannot 

 overwinter in tlie soil. Hence it is to the 

 seed tuber that one must look for control. 

 The chief points to bear in mind are : 



1. To select sound tubers for seed. 



2. If it is impossible to guarantee the 



soundness of the seed tubers then 

 treat with formaldehyde — 2 pints 

 in 30 gallons of water at 119 deg. F. 

 to 122 deg. F. for five minutes. The 

 tubers are then covered for one hour 

 and dried. 



O.A.C., to whom the success of tlie team 

 is in large measure attributable. 



THE O.A.C. JUDGING TEAM. 



The Ontario Agricultural College grad- 

 uates in particular, and Canadian Agricul- 

 tural graduates in general, must be proud 

 of the success achieved by the O.A.C. 

 judging team at the annual International 

 Live Stock Exposition held in Chicago a 

 ,few weeks ago. Teams from twenty-one 

 agricultural colleges (18 from the United 

 States and 3 from Canada) entered the 

 competition, and the final figures placed 

 the O.A.C. team second in the competition 

 witji 4146 points out of a possible 5000 

 points, the winning team (Ohio) having 

 4178 points. 



A further analysis of the results is in- 

 teresting. One member of the O.A.C. t:eam 

 (F. W. Walsh) obtained the highest in- 

 dividual score in the whole competition — 

 891 points out of a possible 1000 points. 

 The other four competitors of the team 

 came loth, 62nd and 59th in the whole 

 competition. There were 105 men in the 

 competition. 



Before going to Chicago, the O.A.C. 

 boys had seen most of the good herds and 

 flocks in Western Ontario. Just before the 

 competition they spent a week in the Uni- 

 ted States at Purdue University and Illi- 

 nois University and also visited several 

 breeders in order to complete their train- 

 ing on American types of stock. They 

 were therefore in good form at the time of 

 the competition and the team was one of 

 the best that ever represented the O.A.C. 



Great credit is due to Wade Toole, Pro- 

 fessor of Animal Husbandrv at the 



NEW APPLE VARIETIES. 



The breeding of new varieties of apples 

 receives much attention at the Central 

 Experimental Farm, Ottawa. Among those 

 selected as being of sufficient merit for 

 naming are: Currie (Xortjiern Spy seed- 

 ling) large in size and of form, conical to 

 oblong conical, slightly resembling North- 

 ern Spy in color and shape and has a sug- 

 gestion of the flavor of sops of wine; 

 Hume (Mcintosh seedling) medium in 

 si^e, roundish to oblate, slightlv ribbed, 

 suggests Mcintosh in color, flesh, per- 

 fume, and flavor; Merlin (Shiawassee 

 seedling), size medium, form oblate, re- 

 sembles Shiawassee in shape, fle.sh and 

 flavor; McSweet (Mcintosh seedling), re- 

 sembles Mcintosh in outward appearance, 

 a good sweet apple; Omesal (Salome seed- 

 ling), large, resembles Salome in appear- 

 ance, fles^ and; flavor, a good keeper: 

 Orsino (Shiawassee seedling), large, re- 

 sembles Shiawassee in flesh and flavor, at- 

 tractive and a good dessert apple : O.shtosli 

 (ilclntosh seedling), resembles Mcintosh 

 somewhat in flesh and flavor, not quite as 

 good m latter respect, distinctly of Fa- 

 meuse group; Patricia (Mclnta^h need- 

 ling), resembles Mcintosh in flesh and per- 

 fume, handsome and a good dessert apple • 

 Peace (Langford Beauty seedling), resem- 

 bles Langford Beauty in appearance, flesh 

 and flavor, a handsome apple; Shishee 

 (Shiawassee seedling), above medium in 

 size, resembles Shiawassee only in having 

 white fine-grained tender flesh; Spiotta 

 (Northern Spy seedling), medium to large 

 resembles Northern Spy in color, flesh and 

 tlavor; Spiro (Northern Spy seedling) 

 medium, resembles Northern Spy in flesh 

 and flavor; Sweetosh (Mcintosh seedlin<>) " 

 medium to large, rather dull in color, but 

 IS attractive and a good sweet apple. 



Three crab apples have also been re- 

 .'ently named, namely, Lora (Progress 

 seedling), fruit crab-like but rather large 

 for a crab; Printosh (Prince and Mc- 

 intosh), rather large, but having a good 

 flavor, and Rosilda (Prince and Mcin- 

 tosh), resembles Mcintosh rather in color, 

 though brighter; promising as a large 

 crab apple. 



