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results if properly used. I have handled and 

 planted trees which appeared to have been 

 injured by fumigation. I have observed plum 

 trees of bearing size in the orchard which were 

 infested and fumigated during the fall, leafing 

 out a w-eek or ten days later than similar trees 

 standing in the same orchard which were not 

 so treated; but there was no permanent injury. 

 All trees resist treatment better in the spring 

 than in the fall, I think, however, that in 

 nursery stock furfiigation much of the injury 

 attributed to the gas belongs to unnecessary 



delay in getting the roots under cover. No 

 pains are taken to hasten the work, and the 

 tender rootlets are left exposed to the sun and 

 wind until there is little chance for recovery. 

 As the San Jose Scale is frequently found on 

 the base of the trunk and larger roots, it would 

 not be practicable to destroy it by immersion 

 without putting the whole tree, roots and top, 

 into the lime and sulphur mixture. This would 

 be more trying to the fibrous roots than exposure 

 to gas." 



Cooperative Experiments in Vegetables 



THE following is a portion of the report of 

 the committee appointed by the Ont. Veg. 

 Grs. Assn., at the request of the Ont. 

 Agric'l and Exp'l Union, to attend the 

 meeting of the union held last Dec. in Guelph. 

 This report will be presented to the bd. of direc- 

 tors of the O.V.G.A, It is published to give 

 members of the assn. an opportunity to consider 

 the suggestions made. The report, in part, is 

 as follows: 



"At a meeting of the Ont. Veg. Grs. Assn., 

 held in Toronto previous to the convention in 

 Nov., a communication was read from Geo. A. 

 Robertson, pres. of the Ont. Agri'l and Exp'l 

 Union, asking that some of our members attend 

 the annual meeting at Guelph with a view to 

 possible cooperation. At the convention, the 

 directors appointed a committee for the purpose 

 composed of Pres. F. F. Reeves, Humber Bay, 

 W. A. McCalla, St. Catharines, T, Delworth, 

 Weston, and J. Lewis, Hamilton. Messrs. Reeves 

 and Delworth attended the experimental union 

 meeting on Dec. 10 and 11; the other members 



of the committee were unable to be present. 

 During the sessions of the union, there appeared t 

 to be a misapprehension regarding the position 

 of the delegates from the O.V.G.A. Some mem- 

 bers, apparently, wished to give the impression 

 that the O.V.G.A. had applied to the union to 

 assist the vegetable growers in experimental 

 work. This was not so. 



The union appointed a committee to meet 

 with Messrs. Reeves and Delworth with a view 

 to considering what could be done. The commit- 

 tee comprised Prof. Hutt, and Messrs Holter- 

 man and McMeans. This committee asked the 

 vegetable men to suggest lines of work that 

 could be carried on. The delegates told them 

 that their visit was only in response to the 

 inivtation of the president of the union and that 

 they had no instructions from the directors of 

 the O.V.G.A. regarding the lines of work that 

 the association would like to have undertaken. 

 The delegates suggested, however, that it would 

 be profitable to take up variety tests with the 

 following vegetables: Carrots, beets and beans. 



This did not meet with the approval of Prof. 

 Hutt, who claimed that they had no ground 

 work on which to base such experiments. He 

 claimed that it would take 3 or 4 years' experi- 

 mental work at Guelph to gain the necessary 

 information. The vegetable men were of the 

 opinion that if variety tests are of any value, 

 practical growers could easily give the informa- 

 tion regarding standard commercial varieties 

 that could be tested against the novelties that 

 are disseminated by reliable dealers. 



"The question was raised by Mr. Holterman 

 as to whether or not the vegetable men would 

 be dealt with as an association or as individuals 

 in the event of the union taking up cooperative 

 experiments. Prof. Hutt replied that the only 

 wa}' he could treat with the vegetable growers 

 would be as individuals. He said that when the 

 experiments were decided upon, (which might or 

 might not be those suggested by the growers), 

 they could, if they wished, take part as experi- 

 menters, with the understanding that they 

 should report results to the experimental union. 

 It appeared to the delegates that the experiments 

 would not be conducted with a view to their 

 usefulness to the growers, and that those in charge 

 of theirdirections do not appear to have any pract- 

 tical knowledge of the needs of the commercial 

 vegetable grower.'Theyfelt,also,thatwere experi- 

 ments conducted by the growers on' lines suitable 

 to the union, it would simply place the O.V.G.A. 

 in the position of a feeder for the union. Experi- 

 ments sent out, as intimated by the union com- 

 mittee, would be of no material benefit to pract- 

 ical growers. The delegates, therefore, told the 

 committee that they thought that the commer- 

 cial grower would take very little interest in 

 the experiments," 



A PL.^N OP WORK 



The report, in conclusion, suggested that the 

 O.V,G,A, outline and conduct a series of ex- 



