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spraying machines in the market, I feel convinced that the 

 various makers are all so keen for their own as well as their 

 customers' interests that we shall see still further improvements 

 upon them. One thing is certain, unless we study this thing, 

 and quickly, we shall have our Colonial competitors cutting us 

 out in our own markets. 



In Tasmania the Government have passed a law (52 Vict. 

 No. 16) making it a finable offence for a farmer to omit to 

 cleanse his orchard. " The Colony of Tasmania is divided into 

 thirty 4 fruit districts,' to make better provision for the 

 destruction of the Codlin Moth (Carpocapsa Pomonana). Every 

 person who sells, or offers for sale, any fruit infected with the 

 moth is liable to a penalty of £5. 



" Bandages to be placed upon the trunks of the trees not 

 later than December in each year. 



" Farmers shall remove all rough and scaly bark from trees, 

 and bum or otherwise effectually destroy such bark as soon as 

 removed." 



Similar methods are in use in Australia. There are persons 

 appointed by the Agricultural Bureau in each district (I believe 

 there are eighty odd districts in Australia, and over thirty in 

 Tasmania) to see that the law is not evaded, 



During the past summer of 1894, A. Cayley Smith, Esq., 

 whose father is a large grower near Adelaide, has been over here 

 studying our various methods of fruit-spraying. This gentleman 

 also visited the orchards of California, where he informed me 

 they are far in advance of us here. Generally speaking, Mr. 

 Smith thought they had an advantage of us also in Australia, in 

 the sense that over there every fruit farmer is obliged to go in 

 for some method of washing his trees, whereas only a small 

 percentage of the growers here have made any attempt in this 

 direction. Of the various districts 1 have visited during the past 

 year, I certainly think in the counties of Worcestershire, Here- 

 ford, Gloucestershire, and Kent the greatest advance has been 

 made in this respect ; and on the various fruit farms around 

 Evesham and Pershore spraying now seems to be the rule, not 

 the exception. 



Some growers are prejudiced against fruit -spraying, owing to 

 having had the misfortune to scorch the foliage or young fruit 

 when so doing. Generally speaking, this is the result of a bad 



