170 THE CANADIAN ITOETICULTUiUST. 



Would some one advise me as to what fi'uits would best succeed iu the 

 district of Algoma, near Sault Ste JNJavie, Ont.? Is it [)robable that grapes 

 will grow there in open air 1 If so, what kinds, as I have purchased land 

 there, and intend to plant. I have received the Canadian Horticulturint 

 about eight months, and am well pleased with it. 



CARING FOR AN APPLE ORCHARD. 



Mr. J. S. Woodward, a correspondent of the N. Y. Tribune, gives tli 

 following method of treating on apple orchard : My apple orchard covers 

 thirty-two acres of ground, and in addition to making it a run for some 

 thirty hogs, I have during the past two years kept from 150 to 200 sheep 

 and lambs in it during the summer. I have just bought the slieep, (May 

 21st,) and turned them in for this season. Of course that amount of land, 

 if it was in good seeding and free from ti-ees, would not pasture so much, 

 stock ; but in addition to the pasture, I feed enough grain and wheat bian 

 to keej) them in such condition that the lambs shall be large enough -to 

 'wean in July, and the sheep sufficiently thrifty to at once accept the buck 

 after weaning the lambs, and thus drop their next lambs for early winter 

 feeding next winter. 



This, I find, costs me less than to hire the same number pastured by the 

 week, and being crowded they eat every spear of grass, every weed and 

 green thing close down, and eat every fallen ap[)le as soon as dropped ; for 

 the latter purpose I find sheep much better than hogs, for while the hogs 

 sleep so soundly as not to hear an apple drop if only a few feet away, a 

 sheep never slee[)S, so that it is on hand for every apple as soon as it touches 

 the ground. 



I let them run here until time to gather winter fruit, and although 

 they will eat a few apples and a few twigs from the ends of the lower limbs 

 as they bend down with the load of fruit, I find my fruit each year growing 

 fairer and fairer, with less and less wormy apples, and my trees, manured 

 with the feeding of so much grain, are looking remarkably healtliy and 

 are productive. To prevent their knawing the sijialler ti'ees I wash the 

 trunks with a solution of soapsuds, whale oil soap and sheep manure about 

 once each month ; and besides, I give the sheep a constant and full !sup])ly 

 of fresh water. This is very important, for in hot weather they get very 

 thirsty and will eat the bark from larger trees even, unless they have 

 plenty of watei-. 



I liks this manner of treating raj orchard very much. What it would 

 •cost me to hire the sheep pastured each week will buy at least GQO pounds 

 of bran and 400 poxxnds of corn, making an aggregate each summer of over 

 ten tons of the very best kind of fertilizer for an orchard. For the money 

 I pay for feed I ge^ my sheep kept in finest condition, have the lambs 

 growing finely all summer, and have the whole amormt of feed bought 

 (which is worth all it cost for that purpose,) scattered about the orchard in 

 the best possible condition and manner. Thus, you see, I prove that it is 

 perfectly practicable to " eat my cake and have it too," or in other words, 

 to get twice value for the money invested, besides having the codling moth 

 successfully trapped. 



