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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



December, 1907 



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of other institutions of the same kind in Eastern 

 Canada. However, so many of Nova Scotia 

 farmers' sons are required to pick and pack the 

 apples and to gather in the potatoes and root 

 crops that it is impossible for them to leave home 

 until the fall season is about over. The attend- 

 ance of students is good and everything bids 

 fair for the ultimate success of this useful in. 

 stitution. 



Mr. P. J. Shaw, B.A., has been appointed 

 lecturer in horticulture at the college, in succes- 

 sion to Prof. F. C. Sears, who last spring ac- 

 cepted a position on the horticultural staff of 

 the Massachusetts Agricultural College. Mr. 

 Shaw spent last summer studying at Cornell and 

 Amherst, Mass., and also visited various fruit 

 sections in New York state and spent a few days 

 at St. Anne de Bellevue and the Central Ex- 

 perimental Farm, Ottawa. Mr. Shaw was born 

 and brought up on a fruit farm near Berwick. 

 N.S. He is a graduate of Dalhousie College and 



was one of the Macdonald-Robertson group of 

 school teachers who took courses in Nature 

 Study at the prominent United States and Can- 

 adian institutions and, subsequently, took 

 charge of this work in his own province. His 

 training is excellent and his work has been of a 

 high order, so that we feel sure in predicting 

 that the Nova Scotia college will maintain its 

 standing along horticultural, as well as other 

 lines of work. 



The Department of Agriculture will shortly 

 send inspectors into the area which was discov- 

 ered to have been infested with the brown-tail 

 moth last spring. Their report will be looked 

 forward to with interest and the subsequent 

 procedure of the Department will largely depend 

 upon the standing of affairs as found by these 

 inspectors. In any case, no effort will be spared 

 to try to eradicate if possible, or at any rate 

 keep in control, this most troublesome insect 

 pest. 



Progress at Horticialtural Experiment Station 



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