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and the extremes of each at least in every county, the number of days without 

 injurious frost, and of summer sunshine, the average rain-fall, and the force and 

 direction of prevailing winds, most valuable data will then be available for the 

 solution of fruit growing problems. To this work Mr. Beall has given much 

 careful attention for the past twelve years, during which time he has accumulated 

 a large amount of valuable information. D. W. B. 



.\ BERRY TICKET. 



Here is a cut of a ticket which I find very convenient in berry time, in 

 keeping accounts with my pickers : 



The row of figures at the bottom represents units from one to nine ; the 

 upper row of figures consists of tens. Any figure punched in this row is equal 

 to 10 times the figure punched below. If you punch eight in the tens row, it is 

 equal to 80. If a picker picks in a day 73 quarts, I punch seven in the upper 

 row and three in the lower. If a picker picks 173 quarts in a day, I punch 

 nine and four in the upper row, making 90 and 40, or 130 (juarts ; then I punch 

 seven in the lower row. I do not take up the tickets until the season is over. 

 This method does away with book accounts, and it is easy to settle with each 

 picker at night when through picking. One' should use a good punch — one 

 which cannot be imitated. — Rural New Yorker. 



Thkre are Many Remedies for mildew and blight, but nothing is better 

 than a simple solution of sulphate of copper. It is free from the features of 

 other fungicides. It is in no way injurious and its operation is sure. Dissolve 

 I lb. of sulphate of copper in 800 gals, of water, or 2 o/.. in 100 gals., or i oz. in 

 50 gals. Probably a much weaker solution would answer, but that is for future 

 experiments to decide. 1 spray the tree with this solution, using a plain brass 

 hand syringe i^ in. in diameter, which holds a pint. It has a rose nozzle with 

 99 holes, three times the usual number, and will throw from 20 to 25 feet, spread- 

 ing the spray aljout 6 feet. — Farm and Iloim. 



