THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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lor 10 cenls in various kinds of fruits, as (‘oinpared with 
poi'terhouso steak, are given below: 
Food Value of Meat and Fjujit Compaued. 
Porterhouse Steak 
. 444 Calories 
Ajiples. 
.1467 
U 
Grapes. 
. 837 
(( 
Peaches . 
. 349 
U 
Rlackberries. 
. 386 
U 
Figs—dried . 
. 988 
(( 
s show's that w'e ai 
•(' gcMting good 
value for 
money when w^e buy fruit as food, l)iit its greatest value 
is not in the amoiiid of energy, but in the tonic and stim¬ 
ulating effect that it possesses. 
The Pennsylvania Railroad says:— 
“A trifle more than 314 eejds per week \vould cover 
the entire increase in freight charges on all the food 
consumed in seven days by a ty])ieal well-fed American 
family of live people, if the pending requests of the Rail¬ 
roads for advanced rates are granted. 
“Greater efficiency in distributing food, resulting from 
the improved railroad facilities that would be made pos¬ 
sible by adequate rates, would wipe out that increase 
many times over.” 
Help the railroads to get im])roved facilities so they can 
helj) distribute the fruit, eo-operate in every conceivable 
w ay to encourage consumption and demand for fruit and 
by so doing you w ill be building your ow n business and 
have little time for joessimistie forbodings of the future. 
President John Watson has one big problem in mind 
that he is constantly agitating with the hope that ener¬ 
getic action to solve it will be taken at the coming conven- 
JOHN WATSON, Newark, N. Y., 
President of the 
American Association of Nurserymen. 
tion, and that is, how" to co-ordinate production with de¬ 
mand and so avoid so much surplus and waste. 
There are two w ays by wTiieli this may be done. To 
eitber limit the production to the demand by statistics and 
co-oj)eration among the growers or to incr('as(' IIk' de¬ 
mand by co-operative national adv(‘rtising. 
Perhaps both could be made to work for the desii-(‘d 
result. 
The subject is so vital to the trade that eveuy oiu; 
should be heart and soul with Mr. Watson in helping to 
accomplish his aims. 
Mr. Watson in a letter to the “Nalional Nurseryman” 
on the subject says:— 
I can’t get the idea out of my head thal we ought not 
to be growing a lot of stock without some systematic 
preparation for its sale instead of burning it in the spring. 
You know it is nothing less than a crime, this burning up 
stock. I never saw so many brush-piles; I never saw^ so 
many full cellars, nor so many blocks left in the field. 
I have seen some really fine blocks of trees given aw^ay 
for the digging and just to get the land cleared. Some 
renting nurserymen, growing fruit trees, actually aban¬ 
doned their stock. Now^ all of this indicates that there 
is something wrong somew^here. We can see what a 
little publicity wdll do. Look wdiat it meant for the 
Seedsmen this spring. Go out and try to buy a few 
seeds for your kitchen garden. Look wdiat the florists 
did Sunday. That full page advertisement in the Lit¬ 
erary Digest ought to be a revelation to the nurserymen. 
It didn’t advertise any particular florist or any particular 
locality. It talked about flow^ers for Mother’s Day. If 
wmuld be interesting to know how many thousands of 
people acted on their impulse after reading that page. 
Control of pear scab, R. E. Smith {California Sfa. Cirr. 
157 {1916), pp. 4, figs. 5). —Suggestions are given for the 
control of pear scab, plowing under of the dead leaves 
and two sprayings wdth Rordeaux mixture as the buds 
are unfolding being recommended. As an extra jirecau- 
tion a third spraying, with Bordeaux mixture to which 
lead arsenate has been added for codling moth control, 
may be given. 
Peach scab and its control, G. W. Keitt {U. S. Dept. 
Agr. Bid. 395 {1917), pp. 66, pis. 6, figs. 6). —The results 
of laboratory and field investigations on peach scab, due 
to Cladosporium carpophihirn, and its contrcl are given. 
Peacb scab is said to occur in practically every important 
peach-growing district in the United States east of the 
Rocky Mountains, and its presence has also been re¬ 
corded in Canada, Europe, Australia, and South Africa. 
The characteristics of the disease are given, and the life 
histoiy of the organism is described. 
Inoculation experiments with single spore strains of 
the fungus from the fruit of the peach and from twigs 
and leaves gave typical infections in every case, with the 
exception of the leaf strain inoculated u[)on the fruit. 
Scab infection naturally appears shoiUy prior to the rip¬ 
ening period of the earlier varieties and may continue 
throughout the season. Primary infection is said to be 
produced by conidia from overwintered twig lesions. The 
fungus overw inters in the mycelial stage on living tw igs 
