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eye. Now we hear many people say that they are rather 

 afraid to use Bordeaux because they have had so much in- 

 jury, but there are a great many who do not choose to spray 

 with it just because they do not want to spray, and they 

 satisfy themselves by saying, I am afraid to use it because 

 I may injure my apples. T will not run the risk. That is a 

 question which has not been definitely settled, but 1 think 

 that the injury sometimes attributed to Bordeaux may be 

 due to season conditions. 



Xow then in selecting varieties it seems to me it is a 

 good thing to select varieties \vhich, under normal conditions, 

 are good annual bearers. Such fruit usually sells at a 

 moderate price. The variety which is a shy bearer, may 

 bring a better price, but you are 'usually better off with the 

 other in the long run. There are some varieties of peaches 

 which are very heavy bearers, — quite sure to be annual 

 bearers, but they are small because the set of the fruit is so 

 thick that unless it is thinned you are pretty apt to get small 

 fruit. That is true, as a usual thing. The fruit brings a 

 low price. But which would you prefer, these peaches which 

 are sold at a lower price, or a crop once in five years which 

 sells at an enormous price when you get it? 



So it is with black-berries. There are some varieties 

 which will succeed well on all kinds of soil. The Snyder is 

 the best that I know of, and yet it is small. People do not 

 like to buy it on that account. The quality is pretty good. 

 The Eldorado is a splendid berry where it does well, but it 

 is more freaky about the soil that it grows on than the 

 Snyder. The Eldorado wants a good strong soil. 



Xow after a man has selected his varieties, he is not 

 through then. He is, to a large extent, in the same position 

 as a man who adopts a child and brings it up. His authority 

 has not ceased. He has got to look after it. So it is with 

 the varieties that we adopt on our farms. I believe that any 

 man who adopts certain varieties should make an effort to 

 improve them. He ought to make them better varieties be- 



