August, 1909 



THE CANADIAN H ETI C ULTUEIST 



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About Cooper's Fluids 



Considerable interest has neen taken in 

 Cooper's Spray Fluids since they were intro- 

 duced into Canada last year. As is the case 

 with all new spray mixtures, most fruit 

 growers have been waiting for accurate re- 

 ports of their value in this country before 

 using them for more than experimental pur- 

 poses. Caution has been practised and right- 

 ly so. Various reports on tests with these 

 fluids have been received by The Canadian 

 Horticulturist, some of them strongly ad- 

 verse. As they have been tested by a large 

 number of orchardists in Oshawa, Bowman- 

 ville and Newcastle, an editorial representa- 

 tive of The Canadian Horticulturist, who 

 visited that district in June, made some 

 enquiries regarding the results that have 

 been secured there. 



Mr. E. C. Beman of Bowmanville said 

 that he had used V.l. Fluid with no satis- 

 factory results. On investigation, however, 

 our representative was told that Mr. Be- 

 man's men had sprayed the same trees with 

 some other mixture and covered the V.l. A 

 definite report on the fluid therefore could 

 not be given. One other grower, who had 

 tried V.l. only twice, also stated that he 

 did not consider it of much use. 



At Bowmanville, Mr. Hamley has an 

 orchard that two years ago was dying from 

 infestation by the orchard-shell scale. Many 

 of the trees had. to be cut out wholly or in 

 part. In the spring of 1908, -they were 



sprayed with V.l. Fluid and again this 

 spring. The orchard was inspected by The 

 Canadian Horticulturist last month and 

 appeared to be in excellent condition, bar- 

 ring the evidence that it gave of past in- 

 jury. The trees were healthy and none of 

 the scales that still adherred to them and 

 that were examined were alive. Mr. Ham- 

 ley is much pleased with the results and 

 attributes the change to the use of this 

 fluid. 



At Newcastle, Dr. Robt. Mcintosh also 

 told our representative that his trees were 

 dying two years ago from the scale. He 

 used V.l. Fluid in the spring of 1908 and 

 also this spring and is now using V.2. "My 

 trees were becoming worthless," said the 

 doctor, "as can be seen by the limbs that 

 have been pruned away and by the mark- 

 ings of scale that still can be seen on the 

 bark. The trees were completely encrusted. 

 This year they are looking fine. I am per- 

 fectly satisfied with V.l. and think that all 

 growers should give it a fair test accom- 

 panied by V.2. and extending over two 

 seasons at least before condemning some- 

 thing that they have scarcely tried, if at 

 all." 



Both V.l. and V.2. were used last year 

 and this by Mr. J. K. Allen, of Newcastle, 

 who told our representative that he con- 

 sidered them the best mixtures that he had 

 ever tried. "Although my orchard was in 

 bad shape before using them," said Mr. 



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