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The Hartlett had been sold at the (leneva Canning I'aclory this season as 

 low as sixty cents per bushel, but it was thought that if potatoes could be grown 

 at twenty five cents, sureK j)ears could be grown at from sixty rents to one 

 dollar per bushel. 



I'he apple crop of one county (C)rlean^) was estimated at 200.000 barrels, and 

 the total value of the fruit cro|)s of that county this past season at $389,000. 



Speaking of i-omiiu-rcial fertiliser> for the strawberry. Mr. NanDeman said 

 that potash was the chief clement re(|uired. Mr. Palmer had excellent results 

 with a complete fertilizer. 



Oi nav apples, .Mr. Willard spoke highly of the Sutton lieauly ; it was of 

 good (juality, productive, uniform in size. Mr. I'owell said it was just right for 

 a dessert apple in size, color and quality, and at its best from January to March. 

 'I'he Mclfitos/i Red equals Fameuse, but better in size and general appearance. 



The apple leaf blight. Prof. I-'airchild said, was a great evil. It caused ])re- 

 niature drop])ing of leaves: carrying with them potash and phosphoric acid, which 

 later on, would have been withdrawn from the tree, and stored awav for future use. 

 Quince leaf and fruit blight was also serious ; in Maryland the quince could not 

 be grown on account of it. The/////// leaf blight was a similar e\il, and all could 

 be largely kept in check by spraying with copper solutions. Mr. A'anDeman 

 called attention to the danger of spraying while trees were in bloom (i) for fear 

 of destroying tender organs of the flower, and so ruining the fruit croi)s, and (2) 

 poisoning the bees. 



\rrR.\TE OF Soix\. — As a rule, the best way to use nitrate of soda is to sow 

 it hand cast at the rate of six bushels per acre, or 500 lbs., over the whole sur- 

 face of the land. An average handful of nitrate of soda weighs 4 ozs. There 

 are 289 handfuls in a bushel of 70 lbs. In sowing, every time the right foot 

 strikes the ground you scatter a handful of 4 oz. If the breadth of land covered 

 is 2 yards and you step 2 feet you will sow 450 lbs. per acre. Stepping I'j 

 feet, you will sow 606 lbs. per acre. Stepping 1 foot you will sow i)oo lbs. per 

 acre. The breadth of land covered is easily regulated by the angle at which the 

 nitrate leaves the hand. A gardener had better use sulphate of potash than 

 kainit, and hje will usually find more benefit from super-phosphate than cither. 

 The better way is to buy a super-phosphate containing 3 or 4 per (nii. of pot 

 ash, and 1 o or 12 ])er cent, of soluble phosphoric acid. Sow 300 or 400 lbs. of 

 soda super-phosphate and 500 lbs of nitrate ol soda per acre over the whole 

 garden in the sjiring as socjn as the frost is out of the soil. Sui)er-phosphale is 

 now so extensively made and is sold at such reasonable prices that it does not 

 pay a farmer or gardener to make it himself Better sell the bones and buy 

 super-phosphate and nitrate of soda : or, if there is no market for them, set out 

 some grapes or asparagu.s, and bur\ the bones a foot or eight inches deep in the 

 ground below and as wide as your time and patience will permit. /'.'/. (u\r. 



