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the bearing year, which will make twelve 

 barrels per year, at the average price of two 

 dollars per barrel — twenty-four dollars per 

 tree — forty trees per acre, making the mag- 

 nificent sum of ^960 per acre. This may 

 sound to some like an ideal orchard : but I, 

 myself, in my orchard, have taken sixteen 

 barrels from one tree; yet, even dividing 

 my former statement by one-half and allow- 

 ing six barrels per tree, gives the fine sum 

 of $480 per acre, making five acres equal 

 $2,400, The average expense of raising and 



packing apples ready for shipment would 

 probably not exceed one dollar per barrel.' 

 We protest against such extravagant fig- 

 ures going before the public. Neither the 

 Gravenstein, nor any other variety, will 

 average twelve barrels per annum for each 

 tree ; from two to three barrels is a much 

 fairer average for most varieties, and $100 

 per acre is nearer the true average income 

 from a commercial apple orchard. 



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THE DOMINION CONVENTION. 



22. I am much interested in reading the 

 press account of the Dominion Fruit Grow- 

 ers' Association, and would like to know how 

 I can secure a complete report of the pro- 

 ceedings. — A. S. Dickson, Seaforth. 



A verbatim report of this Convention has 

 been made, and our Association hopes to be 

 able to secure a sufficient number of copies 

 for all our members. 



BURNING ASHES. 



23. How should waste timber be burned 

 so as to procure the best possible results in 

 securing the ashes ? — C. E. B. 



This seems to be simply a matter of con- 

 venience. No doubt the best results would 

 come from cutting and piling the brush and 

 timber in low spots, protected from the 

 wind, and then distribute the ashes after- 

 ward. 



MIXING HELLEBORE WITH POTAS- 

 SIUM SULPHIDE. 



24. Sir, — In the November number, page 

 310, there is a remedy for gooseberry mil- 

 dew, to be used by spraying. This suggests 

 the question whether the white hellebore tor 

 the worm might be mixed with the solution 

 without injury to either, to save time, or 

 whether the potassium sulphide would of 

 itself have any effect on the worm ? — G. 

 JR. 

 Reply by Frank Shutt, Chemist, Experimental Farm. 



Regarding the effect of mixing potassium 



sulphide with hellebore, I would say that as 

 far as I am aware their action as a fungicide 

 and insecticide respectively would not 

 deteriorate by such a method of applica- 

 tion. 



SPRAYING APPLES AND PLUMS. 



25. Could you inform me where I could 

 purchase a sprayer for spraying apple and 

 plum trees ; one that would do for spraying 

 two or three hundred trees. Also, what 

 amount of Paris green and water do you 

 use, and do you consider spraying a success ? 

 — Ed. McCombs, North Ridge, Out. 



The Beecher spraying pump, manufac- 

 tured in London and advertised by J. F. 

 Wilson, Chatham, for $3.50, answers an 

 excellent purpose so long as it is kept in 

 good order. One ounce of Paris green is 

 enough for twelve gallons of water. Spray- 

 ing is certainly a success if rightly attended 

 to, both for Codling moth and plum curculio, 

 although much less certain in its results 

 with the latter than with the former. 



APPLES FOR NOVA SCOTIA. 



26. Sir, — I duly received the numbers of 

 The Horticulturist, and now enclose 

 subscription. Hardy apples and small 

 fruits do well here. I believe there are 

 varieties of fruit not grown in this part of 

 Nova Scotia that would be hardy here. I 

 notice a statement in the October Horti- 

 culturist that the Bessemianka pear 

 endures a temperature of 40 degrees below 



