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year out Is the keyctone to success in a successful orchard en- 

 terprise. Without It, profits will be few and far between, even 

 with a good manager on the job. 



After a ^-yeRV study and extensive tests to observe 

 results, the Manufacturing Chemists' Association has agreed upon 

 a change of color in white arsenates to provide a satisfactory 

 safeguard to prevent their being mistaken for other household 

 materials. Lead arsenate now being produced for the 1S'^& crop 

 season is colored pink while the color of calcium arsenate will 

 also be changed from white to pinlc when present stocks of the 

 insecticide are exhausted. 



A word about t}:e importance of mulching the strawberry 

 planting is in order at this season. No expenditure of time or 

 money on the planting next spring rill net the same returns as 

 an expenditure in "putting the plants to bed for the 'vlnter. " 

 Mulching is unouestionably a means of increasing the yield of 

 salable berries. It should become as much a matter of liabit as 

 fertilizing or cultivating. If other suitable mulch material 

 is not available, ^"e would recommend the purchase of baled straw. 



Clark of Kew Jersey stater, that J. tons of salt hay per 



acre is ample for mulching a strawberry planting. This will 



provide pn all-over coverage, while 2 tons "'ill provide a fair 

 coverage if well spread. 



The original Concord grapevine is reported to have borne 

 its Syth crop this season. The first frv:it of this variety was 

 obtained by the originator, E. W. Bull, in lg^9. Within a few 

 years, 26,000 acres had been planted and its fame had sDread 

 half "'ay across the continent. In ISoS it ^'as a^^arded the Horace 

 G-reeley pirize as the best grape for cultivation. It is still 

 considered an excellent grape, but a little too late to develop 

 best quality in some seasons in Massachusetts. 



Cardinell, of Michigan, suggests that raspberry prunings 

 be utilized by running them through an ensilage cutter and re- 

 turning them to the soil as a source of organic matter. He re- 

 ports no evidence that the presence of disease was in any way 

 augmented by the anplication of prunings, insofar as his exper- 

 iments are concerned. 



Imagine, if you can, a farmer driving 25 miles in a 

 heavy rain to replace ^ bushels of pot.-'toes purchased at his 

 farm, concerning ^vhich a mistake had been made. That '"as the 

 experience of the vrriter a fe^" days ago, and the honest farmer 

 is a. large producer of both potatoes and apples. "I'm afraid 

 the potatoes you got '"ere 'Seconds' instead of "'Firsts,' and I 

 want to make it right." No matter what "'e may say about the 

 business ethics of an occasional fruitgrower or nurserym.an, it 

 is gratifying to know that Diogenes can now hang up his lantern, 

 confident that he has at last found a man of unimpeachible in- 

 tegrity. The writer wiw not hesitate to recorrimend this thor- 

 oughly honest grov^er as a source of good potatoes and good a.pples. 



