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plum suckers with mattock, ditto round 

 nut bushes, break out wands from centre 

 of nut bushes and prune fine wood. Send 

 Blenheim Orange apples to market a fort- 

 night before Christmas. Cart and wheel 

 dung in frosty weather. Most pears will 

 have been marketed before Christmas. 

 Inspect apples, taking out any bad ones. 

 Make boxes and pack best dessert apples 

 in them. Grub up woodland, cost pre-war 

 £8 to £12 per acre, it makes good land for 

 growing fruit, especially strawberries. 

 Diain any water-logged land. Make 

 up accounts carefully for Income Tax 

 return. 

 Additional Notes. — Tn April and May, 



if apple trusses are attacked (by Sucker 

 (Psylla) or plum is attacked by aphis, 

 spray with nicotine and soft soap. 



Rabbits and Hares. — A large and 'care- 

 ful fruit farmer told me he had found the 

 following mixture useful for keeping 

 I'aibbits and hares away from young trees, 

 put on stems with a brush as soon as 

 planted, and repeated the following 

 autumn: — 1 pint paraffin, 2 pints gar tar, 

 1.^ pints train oil, about 3 pints soot, 

 thickened up to a thick paste with fresh 

 cow dung. This mixture has long been 

 used and never found to injure the trees, 

 but it must be mixed with care and 

 thoroughly. 



