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feet. Nozzles for upright or lateral spraying would adapt the machine 

 for work in hop-fields or orchards. 



A patent for the apparatus has recently been taken out in this coun- 

 try, but its manufacture here has not so far been inaugurated. 



The one horse power machine for broadcasting grains, fertilizers, and 

 either solid or liquid insecticides with suitable receptacles and nozzles 

 is retailed in England for £30 sterling, or 8150. If fitted with special 

 nozzles for vertical work £2 extra are charged. Hand-power machines 

 are sold for £12 and £14. These prices would be even greater in this 

 country, and would doubtless Interfere with its adoption were is not 

 that it combines the other advantages indicated. 



I^'TER^'ATIONAL INTERESTS. 



With the constantly increasing facilities for intercommunication be- 

 tween different parts of the globe the results obtained and experiences 

 had in one part are soon available for the rest of the world. Thus 

 France has more than repaid the United States for the good — however 

 vast and important — that has resulted to her by the use of American 

 resistant stocks. Her experience with these American vines has reacted 

 beneficially upon our own viticulture in many directions, but particu- 

 larly in the great advance which her sons have made in insecticides and 

 fungicides and in convenient, portable insecticides, and fungicide appli- 

 ances. It has often been said of the French that they are not an orig 

 inating people ; however that may be, they are very quick at adopting 

 and improving ideas and discoveries once brought to their notice, and 

 no nation is more appreciative of the immense practical benefits to be 

 received by the adoption of the most scientific methods. In fact no na- 

 tion has given greater Government incentive to the pursuit of science 

 in its bearings upon the welfare of mankind, and we may study with 

 profit what she has of late years done in our own line. 



I had a delightful visit last August from Mr. John West, who came to 

 this country as a delegate from Victoria to ascertain all he could of our 

 methods ; also from Mr. W. Catton Gasby, of Adelaide, who came to 

 this country in a similar capacity. Economic entomology in their part 

 of the world is extremely interesting to us; for while the seasons are 

 reversed as compared with ours many of the same injurious insects 

 occur in both countries. Thus I was glad to get perfect confirmation 

 from Mr. West of the fact that the Northern Spy and the Winter Majetin 

 are found to protect the apples grafted upon them from the Woolly 

 Aphis. A great deal has been published of late years in the ^Tew Zea- 

 land and Australian papers on " blight proof" apple stock, and they 

 have had an important experience, the outcome of sore necessity, for 

 Schizoneura lanigera has there been one of the most serious drawbacks 

 to apple culture. 



There can be no question but that this experience will prove of value 

 to our apple-growers wherever these varieties grow well and the woolly 



