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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
fruit districts of the Province. The establishment of fruit 
packing schools of a movable charaeter is also being advo¬ 
cated. This is undoubtedly a good work, and greatly to 
be commended. It is to be remembered, however, that 
Ontario has already district experiment stations whieh, 
while not answering the commercial questions, do answer 
questions bearing upon adaptation and variety values. 
SPRAYING LAWS 
Kansas rejoiees in an obligatory spraying law. Every 
orehardist as well as nurseryman is obliged to spray his 
fruit trees. In case the fruit grower or nurseryman neglects 
to do this, he is advised by the state authorities that sueh 
is neeessary. If he persists in the neglect, the state authori- 
ities are authorized to come in and spray the trees and 
charge the cost as a tax on the land itself. The law has 
been tested, but each time it has been upheld. At the 
present time it looks as though there was no obstaele to 
prevent the growth of clean, healthy orchards in Kansas, 
and the man who does not eare for the trouble of spraying 
should not plant an orehard. 
Business jVIovemcnts 
Bound Brook Nurseries is the new name for Wadley 
Nurseries. 
The new name and different officers are the only ehanges 
made, the eorporation otherwise remaining the same. 
Please erase the Wadley Nurseries from your lists, and 
substitute the Bound Brook Nurseries. 
Bound Brook, N. J. Bound Brook Nurseries. 
January i6, 1912. 
FRESNO NURSERY CO. 
The Fresno Nursery Company of Fresno, California, is enlarging 
its business. An additional member has been taken into the Company. 
This is Mr. Charles B. Harkness. This gentleman, with Mr. F. H. 
Wilson and Charles A. Chambers, will inaugurate a vigorous campaign, 
and expect to very materially enlarge the business of the Company 
in the near future. 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR HIGHWAY 
IMPROVEMENT 
Probably never before in its history has the good road movement 
in the United States received such an impetus from an official source 
as in the proclamation which has just been issued by Governor William 
Hodges Mann of Virginia. The state paper written by Governor 
Mann called upon all the citizens of Virginia to set aside the week begin¬ 
ning November 13, 1911, as “Good Roads Week’’ and asked them to 
devote their united efforts “to the accomplishment of some practical 
result within the zone of their influence.” 
Governors of all the other states in the Union were requested to 
issue similar proclamations so that the entire country may be alive 
with the activity of farmers actually engaged in the improvement of the 
public highways during that week. It was intended to make the week 
the most notable in the history of the road movement in America. At 
the present time over $1,000,000 a day is being spent on the improve¬ 
ment and maintenance of roads in the United States. In the week begin¬ 
ning November 11, it was expected that $10,000,000 would be invested 
in the improvement of roads from all the various states, counties, 
boroughs and road organizations. In addition, thousands of farmers 
in various sections of the country donated their service to the actual 
work of improving the nearby roads in order to demonstrate just what 
can be done by concentrated work. - 
Logan Waller Page, the President of the American Association for 
Highway Improvement, whose convention was held at Richmond, 
Nov. 20 to 23 inclusive, says that the proclamation of Governor Mann 
will result in a crystallization of the sentiment for good roads through¬ 
out Virginia and, when followed by similar proclamations in other 
states, will produce the same effect throughout the country. J. E. 
Pennybacker, Jr., the executive secretary of the association, and 
Charles P. Light the chief field representative and organizer, traveled 
through the country and prepared everything in readiness for “Good 
Roads Week” throughout the country. Immediately following the 
general demonstration, the congress of the American Association for 
Highway Improvement and its allied organization was held at Rich¬ 
mond. 
After calling attention to the fact that the American Association 
for Highway Improvement held its first annual road congress in 
Richmond, Nov. 20 to 23, “for the purpose of bringing to the solution 
of the many difficult problems connected with the improvement of the 
public roads the combined knowledge and experience of the men who 
have devoted themselves to a study of this important question,” Gover¬ 
nor Mann’s proclamation says: 
“Whereas, the President of the United States will be our honored 
guest and will address the Congress upon that important occasion; 
“And whereas, the improvement of public roads throughout Virginia 
and their proper care and maintenance will result in greatly increased 
prosperity and add immeasurably to the welfare of our people; 
“Therefore, I, William Hodges Mann, Governor of Virginia, do 
hereby request the people of this Commonwealth, and especially those 
charged with the management of our public roads, to attend and 
participate in the American Road Congress hereinbefore mentioned. 
“I furthermore urge upon all civic organizations, public schools, 
churches, the press and all other agencies within the Commonwealth 
that serve to promote human welfare, to set apart the week beginning 
Nov. 13, 1911,-which immediately precedes the Congress, as “Good 
Roads Week,” and during that period to devote their united efforts 
to a furtherance of the movement for better roads and particularly to 
the accomplishment of some practical result within the zone of their 
influence.” 
The proclamation issued by Governor Mann is the first ever issued 
by the chief executive officer of a state in the good roads or any other 
similar movement. The conference was a great success. 
SEWAGE-IRRIGATION IN PARIS 
It may come as a revelation to some that the sewage of 
Paris has permitted the turning into profitable, in fact, exceed¬ 
ingly valuable market gardens of 35,000 acres of land which 
previously was useless. By means of a large conduit, the 
sewage is carried in a subterranean stream through Paris 
to Clichy on the outskirts, where it is pumped into two great 
distributing mains. Both of these are used to distribute 
the water to the market gardens situated on the peninsula 
formed by the River Seine not far from Rouen. As an 
example of the way the irrigating is done, on the truck farm 
at Asnieres owned by the municipality, there is a brick 
sluice, provided with gates about thirty feet apart on each 
side, which let the water into channels to carry it all through 
the garden. At the end of the sluice are filters which send 
the remaining sewage into the Seine purified. 
This irrigated land is mostly owned by the city or by 
rich men who rent it to peasants. It has been converted 
into one of the chief revenue-bearing sections of agricultural 
France, and all through the utilization of a waste product, 
as it is generally considered. 
