J3EE 2L.” Ii- NEWSY Nora's BY AGIIOOLA BLOSSOM-END nor or‘ TOMATOES The following abstract of an article in the quarterly magazine "F3115 Research", will provide my "mgr; with further light on this n-gus physiological trouble. Ac- comm; to the author Mr. Chas. B. Bu", blossom-end rot occurs when wmato plants “fail to re- ceivc an adequate or uniform sup- y o; moisture." when this hap- pen,’ transpiration still goes on but moisture is taken from the de- veloplng fruits to meet it; with the result that the cells at the blossom-end of the fruit collapse, Ind a dark brown or black area Mm, often aggravated by fun- pld parasites. y; the first part of the growing ugson has been unusually wet, a mppy growth is made, and the tis- lue of the fruit is soft and suc- culent. Under such conditions the fruit is very susceptible to the rot. md 1g g dry period sets in. there ls almost certain to be heavy losses. B11936 (in New York State) the rainfall for April. May, June and July was below the average, the lotsl being 6.26 inches. During April. Mal’ and June, 1937, the nmfall was above the average, bggn more than twice the rain- fall for the four-month's per- iod of the previous year. Then (ollowed a. dry period in July and Aumlst, and as a result the "rot" n; very severe in 1937 as com- pared with 1936. Now comes a. paragraph with which I am quite in accord. "Prun- ing and tying up tomato plants on stalks or trellises tends to in- flu“ the amount of blossom-end mt," There is a greater trans- piration from stalked plants, which also have a smaller root-system u; support it. The unpruned, un- qgined planks, lying fiat, shade the soil and reduce the rate of evaporation, so conserving the moisture. Anything which will help the moisture-holding capacity 4 the soil, such as the if clusion .01 organic matter, will, Mr. Sayfe thinks, tend to reduce the rot. iieavy fertilization, the largest plant-growth, resulted _iri the greatest loss. A further control is by irrigating during dry spells. ‘rnis seems to agree with my can observations, but a relative who sometimes d‘ these matters, suggests that I have f‘ tomatoes too long in one ace." and that if I try new soil next year I may have better luck. lwonder? It will be worth while snaking a trial planting any how. lave insects any relation to the touble? ‘mere is much to be denied up before the last word on the subject is said. I1 -‘ mono runrnnsr 'i ‘Hie Nature Magazine for Sep- tember has a splendid article on ilie Purple Loosestrife. Lythrum lalicaria. It is understood to be the "long purples" oi shake- apoarek "Hamlet." though I have frequently heard the Purple Orchis (O. mascula) mentioned in this connection. The Ioosestrife is an island plant, having been found at an unnamed locality by Prof. Groh in i926, and later by Prof. P. R. Hurst at West Point. It is comparatively new to this con- tinent: "less than sixty years ago Asa Gray described it as still "sparingly wild" in New Elillfllld Where it first appeared." Twenty years ago it was unknown in Michigan. the roadside flowers be- by producing _ mad over Lythrum: I believe it is I Band case of trimcrphisml have every one of the eighteen pollinations possible. For the love of Heaven, examine your species ""3 u 37°“ c"! Bet me some seed. do!" The trimorphism alluded to means three forms" and they m. elude flowers with long, medium, or short styles; long, medium_ or short stamens; and large green, medium yellow, or small yellow pollen grains. Sir Joseph D. Hook- el’. however. says that these admit of nine modes of cross-fertiliza- tion, which I imofllne to be a bettcr estimate than Darwin's. "There are today only two known examples of such exquisite- ly adjusted functioning as "tri- inorphisml" says the article. it does not icll us the name of the other plant. e-e REMINISCENCES 0F LONDON London has clearly defined areas which are devoted to (l) national administration or government; (2) entertainment. and i3) legal mat- ters. From the Houses of Parlia- ment to Charing Cross the visitor notos the Home Office with its vis-a-vis the famous "Scotland yard"; Horse Guards, Admiralty, War Office, and many other gov- ernment departments. North of Trafalgar Square, there is a region of theatres extending Drury Lane. The clustering oi these places of entertainment has this advantage: when, as often happens ii a good play is presented, the “house is full." the disappointed late-comers are within easy dis- tance of another playhouse. So well is this appreciated that the Cinemas, I notice have mostly opened up in this area. The third area which I have specified, fol- lows close on to the second; and from Somerset House (where are stored all the national documents connected with “Births. Merriam and Deaths" — and the Temple. both fronting on the Thames. there is a. district extending north to Gray's Inn, which is sacred to the Lord Chancellor and his sub- ordinates! Now I had often promised my- self a visit to the Savory Theatre if I ever got to London again, and it was not hard to persuade my companion to visit the “home of the Gilbert and Sullivan Here we made our first acquain- tance wlth the cue (or properly queue) system. On going to the play at the Newcastle Theatres o! that day, the first comers stood near the door, and formed a little, crowd. which grew and grew with later accessions. when the doors were opened the first-comers were literally carried in by the rush from behind, and had enough t0 do to keep their footing. In Ion- don we found the play-goers lined up in single file quietly awaiting their turn to enter. Even in the queue the folk had some entertain- ment, for an "impersonater" stood in the roadway and gave an out- door performance. His apparatus was only a small square of felt with a round hole cut in it, but he made the most of it. He twist- ed it into a cocked hat, put it on. altered his features to a low- ering gloom. folded his arms and announced "Napoleon!" He was a" Spanish bandit, an lmxlish D81‘- son. and a dozen other characters- At last he passed the hat - the real one-for the pence. and then went off to some other queue. We found at every theatre itinerant entertainers of all kin , conjurers. ing goldenrod (our "yellow-weed"). rnilkweed, and an umbelllfer called Queen Anne's lace. Now “every marsh and pondbank from Mus- kegon to Detroit glows with a mid- summer show of rosy-purple spikes that in places cover thirty or forty acres. The dominant color of the season has changed from yellow to warm magenta." With the plant has grown a host if Popular names. amongst which I notc" spiked loosestrife", “dead man's fingers," “soldiersfl, "willow- hemxsfl, "rainbow-weed” and "red Bally" the last being the favorite kl Michigan. This looeestrife desirable cut flower. and in tiir‘! "Flower Show School." an exten- lllln project of Michigan State College. bearing some resemblance lo our Central School Fair, it was found that more than half the competitors cultivated flowers." i .-. fbably was of foreign descent; at makes a very , had employed "red yege, because it was takinfl 5W“? 3111?" in their arrangements — part of his profits. At the close “the only wilding among fifty of a stormy interview with his Red Sally has another and B were (renter claim to notice. This plant threw up the partnershlP- The" led Charles Darwin, the ‘great na- was the more suns in ill" W‘ iurallst, to one of his most brii- cause Sir Arthur's mother 0r 8mm‘ "Int discoveries. He wrote to Asa mother (I forget which) was an u"! "I am almost stark, staring Italian of a very 90°!‘ "m"! Blackbird Bandolier of rm- foa- mma mum. we" acrobats, etc. The queue system was adopted in Newcastle W0 0T three years later. Inside the theatre the first thing we noticed was its smallness com- pared with the theatres in New- castle, but the lavish style of its decoration was such as we had never seen. It was the expense of this furniture that finally broke up the partnership oi the famous librettist and the not less famous musiclan.— William Schweake Gil- bert, and Sir Arthur seymour Sul- livan. Doyley Curie was proprie- tor of the Savoy Theatre. and Dm- any rate he believed in a rather Oriental display which made good advertising at that date. He. won Sullivan's consent to lllll-lllw val" pet in the corridors. it is said. at the cost of £100. Gilbert when l"? heard oi this, flew into a towerinl two partners ho told them they "(Sanguinafyl Jews" and Ilium: ‘ T0 ESTABLISH NEW REBURI] Market Classes to Provide the Best Competition. FEEDER CATTLE Western Cattle Purchased in Maritnnes to be Shown. There will be a record display of beef cattle in the market classes to be shown at the Maritime winter Fair this year, according u; w, a, Trucman of A0184!- who stated that nearly one hundred market cattle would be entered from the Aulac and Westmoreland Point district alone. Harold Carter, Ed Ander- son, George H101“. Wells Bros, Harold Etter and others-all well known exhibitors in other years, would have big entries in the market classes in addition to their usual display of prizes stock in shorhorn, Hereford and Grade classes. Feeder cattle brought here from Western Canada will be on display, and the general public will take an active interest in these animals. Only recently Messrs. Harold Carter and George Hicks, purch- ased six carloads in Western Can- ada-each taking two cars, while one car will be consigned ‘to Colpitt Bros, of Albert County. The sixth car is- on order, and the animals will be purchased by fann- ers in the march districts. While these recent shipments will not be fitted in time for display at the Maritime Winter Fair, opening on November 5th, pure bred cattle that were purchased last year have been held over and will be included in the entered herds. These will comprise Shorthorns and Here- fords. Actually tho beef entry will be One 0f the largest in the history of the Fall shows-and aside from the Royal Winter Fair at Toronto, will be the largest beef alas ever displayed in Canada. The dairy classes are filling rapidly as well, while the number of horses to be show-n this year will be larger than usual. -1_____i_a-__ __ "But never either found another". as the poet says. to captivate the fancy of Englishmen as these two did. On that visit. I remember, the theatre was lighted by gas, which was not the best illuminant on a warm summer's night. Doyley Carte afterwards put in the elec- tric light, but it was not depend- able at the outset, and be left the gas-fittings in for a year or two. "Just in case." After the lapse ~f so many years I am not just sure whether the opera was “Trial by Jury" or the ever-popular "Mikado" but I recollect that the scenery and the orchestra were much superior to those of Doyley Carte's travel- ling company that toured the pro- vinces (or counties); while the actors and actresses performed and sang in a sort of blase fashion that would have utterly damned them in Newcastle. The touring company was "all alive, ohl" from start to finish. London theatres went in inter, and casne out later, then those in the North. When we emerged it cd as at midday, and almost as bright. The public-houses (saloons) were open till midnight as against ii p.m. in Newcastle, and lo p.m. in rural Northumberland. Mat- was to find the streets as crowd- | 'l‘l-li£ _ LJHARLOTTE’ ruwm fiUAKUiAN CONSER A WEEKLY COLUMN OI‘ PRACTICAL OPINIONS 0N VITAL ISSUES AFFECTING TEE USES AND ABUIII OI NATURAL IESOUIBI! I! IIAISIIIIBLD- VA TI ON III- LUDIDW IINIINS. SPORT CONTRDL love of Nature is an evidence of civilization; it is hardly found among savages or primitive peo- ple at all. it is the most modern of all virtues and reflnements- its morality Ls unimpeachable for it is concerned with truth in op- position to sentiment and sup- erstition. While there were among the ancients individuals who were at trac ted to the study of the, creatures and plants around them, they were always an inconsiderable minority. The anci- ent. world at its best was little concerned with animals, their lives. loves or sufferings. Christianity has not much to say about our duty towards animals and we may wonder why, {or surely the dogs and donkeys of Jerusalem were no better treatcd two thousand years ago than they are today. For two thousand; years the simple sup- position that ahimais were created so'eiy for our use has Bone almost unchallenged. Natural History hardly became a matter of serious study until the Victorian era. The earliest printed natural his- tory books reveal how little was know of the animal creation. Until Gilbert White wrote his Natural History of Seiborne and the Reverend J. G. Wood dilated up- On i-he Common Objects of the Country and Seashore. natural his- tory books, with fcw exceptions. were more like moral hand-laooks, which told how the cow was given us to provide breakfast for good children, and the lion a sad ex- ample of how the babe should not behave —before company at least. And how times have changed since William Blake wrote his sympa- thetic poem. "To a. Fly," and good children were exhorted not to kill the pretty things which danced their little hour in God's sunlight! so happily Now we organize “swat the fly" cempaignsi for we know, but only since Pasteurs time. that the fly walks in unclean places and does not wipe its feet enough before it settles on baby's milk bottle. And. even now. we provide these unclean places. ~ It took us many. many centuries to develop a Society for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals, and even now kindness to animals is considered by many an unimport- ant by-product of civilized edu- cation. What is our duty towards our neighbor on four feet? How should we regard our little bro- the: in fur or feathers? There still exist human beings who are amused by the antic struggles of a tortured animal— they're only axiimals; what docs it matter? ‘There are still men who feel much the some way about ' savages, At the same timethene is hardly an educated man in this country who would not vigorously oppose the maltreatment of any animal he saw being mistreated, although the same man will cheerfully take his gun when the season opens for sport. It, is right to kill one thing and wrong to kill another? And yet, is it quite a healthy state of mind to melt with sympathy for a wounded deer or dog and yet send our sons to the shambles of a modern battlefield? The ethics of sport are still somewhat undefined. A great hunter once told me that he would feel ashamed to shoot rabbits and partridges because the animal had no chance. He shot big game only because. as he said, "if I miss the animal gets his chance." He never ters never quietcned down till about 2 a.m., and by 5 am. the early civic employees "took up the | running." London very nearly turn- ed night inio day, but paid for its ' strenuous efforts-by the loss of its | people's stamina; so that families; rarely lasted beyond three gen-i erations. London grew, and is 5B1“ ' growing, because of its attracting the best of the population from the “shires.” This was not the only visit to the Savoy: in subsequent trips to London I heard the “Pirates of Penzancc". the “Gondoliers” and the semi-classical “Yeomen of the Guard", my favorite a comic opera with a tragic conclusion! The "Pirates of Penzance" was once presented here. by local talent: how many Chariottetoniaim re- member that? I have touched upon the public- houses of London in the above notes, and am now in r session of authentic information regard- ing those of the present day, sent me by a correspondent in that city. This, though not a re- miniscence, will doubtless interest my readers - but it must keep m1, ontario, whole M IN many times grand champion Angus bull till next week. also winning. took more than one native with him, to carry an extra gun, and often enough he went entirely alone into the bush of somaliland. It is noteworthy that most great hunters give up sport as they grow older ;it is an evidence of a civilized soul one that has become civil through experi- enoe. Man is a hunter born. In anci- ent times he kliled for food and thought little about sport or its ethics. His preoccupation was to bring home the dinner or go hungry, and. as in Africa. today. animals were "nyama" —mcat and nothing more. Sport is the result of applying menial msirictions to the science of killing animals. It" over-shaded orchards or in those creates right and wrong and should bestow some sense of dignity up- on what otherwise is only the indulgence of a primitive lust. Sport is the morality of slaughter, a quality which men almom suc- ceeded in introducing to warfare until the desire for efficiency “The Crowning Fair of a Crowning Year” MARITIME WINTER FAIR and FOX SHOW “i555, n. s. nov. 5-11 9 nonsn snow o VAUDEVILLE e rues OF was , BANDS , AMUSEMENTS ____-_1 Th e Greatest Winter Fair in the East. . sign that indicates their presence ‘made results the solo eritcrion of right- It may be that ‘Time will slowly eliminate sport as it is understood today. but however much we may wish for the conservation 0f wild- life, hating cruelty as men once hated heresy, we must face the fact that sport is held to be right and legitmatc in our time. Our ambition must therefore be to in- crease the civilized sentiment that there must be some quarter given to the quarryrthat because some of us have invented instruments of wholesale death. it is no reason why they should be used for sport or even profit. True sport keeps alive and regulates, at the same time, the hunting spirit without which the average man seems un- able io exist. There is something wrong about the person whose tendcr-heaxtdness becomes mand- lin: perhaps it is in exact ratio to the meaner man who is utterly in- different to animal suffering. The rules of sport must be’ dictated by good sense. At least we should not kill more than we can use and it should be remembered that when the Government regu- lates the “bag" of a day, it con- cedes the maximum to the greed- iest of its citizens. The game oi golf was defined by somebody as “the art of putting a very small ball into a very small hole with instruments totally un- fit for the purpose!’ But therein consists the sport, which is a con- test with difficulty. Bushes, cloth- ing and ‘the back of his neck are what one easiest for a beginner to catch with a fly rod, but a real angler would rather lure a trout with a bunch of feathers on-a hook than snare him with an angle- worm, which is far bettcr bait. Skill with a gun comes from being called upon suddenly to use it by the unexpected appearance of game. To kill half-tame. hand-fed birds, accustom ‘l to food in a farmer's yard, or when they are terrified and driven before the guns. is little more sport than to kill canariu with a hammer. What is difficult is to be desired; the skill eurphasize‘, and even some- thing risked, to make killing re- spectable by a civilized mind. Let us admit the savage in ourselves by cultivating his skill, for the man who can shoot a bird or a fish with a bow and arrow is still doing something which it is diffi- cult altogether to despise. 1t is too much to hope that sport will ever deign to be useful. If the sports- men must kill without control, it would be well if he would kill the enemies of the human race against which we have never been entirely successful. ‘The rat and the wolf will tax his ingenuity to the limit and there are other dangerous things to which he might pro- fitably direct his siaughtcrous in- tent, starlings in some places, Eng- lish sparrows in others -but there is no hope of that. The sportsman prefers something easier. Entomology THE EUROPEAN APPLE SUCKEB. The European apple sucker as the name indicates. is an European insect recently discovered in the Maritime Provinces, and spread- ing rapidly. It‘ i snot as serloui as many native pests and only causes marked damage when ex- tremely numerous. it damages the trees, chiefly by sucking the juice from the blossoms, thus in- juring the “set" of the fruit. It may also reduce the vitality of the treu by feeding at the axils of the leaves. dwarfing them and even causing a premature droP in severe cases. The application of Bordeaux spray or dust to trees heavily infested causes severe in- jury, including dwarfing and burning of the leaves and blos- soms. Under ordinary circum- stances, however, the insect can- not be regarded as a. pest of first rank and good crops are obtained in orchards that are properly car- ed for even when it is abundil-lll- The damage is most noticeable in insufficiently cultivated or fertiliz- ed. The eggs are laid by the adult insects upon twigs and fruit spun especially on bearing trees, begin- ning about the last week in Aug- ust. continuing throuell 5613mm- ber and up to the time of severe frosts. The eggs hatch in the spfll"! when the buds oi most varieties have burst and the young insects penetrate the buds where they cannot be reached by contact sprays or dusts. The nymph! N- quire about twenty-four days to reach maturity. nunns this n"- iod they excrete large quantitiel of clear. translucent. sticky "honey dew” and this is often the first to the fruit grower. It is ap- parently the chemical reaction that occurs between the honey dew and the Bordeaux, that is the cause 0! the injury already described. Careful spraying with nicotine Well Drilling Communicate with Trask Well 00., Ltd. Vaughan H. Groom Summerside cvlanager for P. E. Island -severe cases the PAGE auzvayj IE c Winning Holstein Breeder's Herd . ,2, 1 1 . H w. Lonsdale Herd Award at the Cnnnfiian National Exhlbiizofi. Breeder's ‘Toronto, 1937. Compliments of Holstein Fried-an Assoczation of Canadai. This group shown by M. L. McCarthy. Farm, Sussex. N. B, won the Premier covcrnig of SLIEW over thorn ans they claim that the swan" docs not have to be changed hem-Iv so often as \\Lli'i\ board floors are used. » unnecessarily hard restrictions may be changed and those exhibitinl! at Charlottetown will not be de- —————- barred from showing at Amherst. (Continued from page l. -i- I'M!!! "W" a‘ Tl°°n °E 5mm” Just another word of warning. Milt!‘- Pllwe the" “X95 i" "M" Only a few weeks remain before 8nd hBVB them daF-‘mcd and b“ m i polling time and it is of tiic ut- plenty 01 lime fill‘ lllil lllili-Zllli-l U“ most lmpgrlance that {OX ghgdp; first 0i Siplnrliif-r. We gfi ilicni Monday. land coop5 be kept, ‘thoroughly by iii!’ iafllirld, PlWZHSQfL imo ICICBHBd B-Ild ffiish bedding be plac- iiunfilus of about sixty lxlunfis. ed in very frequently. The great T710)’ 1111* lily filly fill-fl “H? {F0111 amounts of meat whlgh are 19d bdirilill and run vcry own, usually m 19mg at, {hi5 Scngqn of m.) year ailiriu: lilo mm» of n izvnlilv-fivfl LTRLLSPS the formation of a largo ‘Til’ iii""'-‘ Wllfll \\'~" 1W‘ llltm ill amount, of ammonia in me urn-m, lilf‘ mops wc sometimes put. a thin As you know, meat is largely cnm- Lil" of straw over them to Dre‘ posed of nitrogen and m the pro- vent the foxes scratching them cess of digestion a certain amount "llt- LH-“i KPH!‘ W1? dlrl nflt ha" of {he nm-ogen 15 excreted by me shavings early enough l0 give In our own ranch we have been luring shmings: largrly Fill/P .210 A ridiculous provision which the committee of the Amherst Win- ter Fair have placed in their rules ‘ is that foxes must be in the bulld- ing on Thursday. This would mean that a man would have t0 leave Charlottetown on Thursday morning, spend Thursday, Friday. Saturday, Sunday in Amherst in order to have his foxes judged Oil men.“ o; “mm Arm» having an iilcm a IilOIOUfJLl ivy-cm. bui MOIldBl’. and remain there until tamed to use]! three atoms o; this your \w will kilow for sure the 11th 1 believe that strong hydrogen 1t becomes NH 3, or am. \\llf'iil('i' iiu-_\' are satisfactory 0i protests have been made to those month This pungent chemical not. At the plTSfllli. liilli: we conducting the Winter Fair, so there is a prgaabilitynthat these think they arc going to be splen- did, as o, recent checkup of our pups and adults showed the belly fur l0 b0 of good color. i-‘Omliound will cause browning of the fur very quickly if it comes in _ contact with the bellies or sides Si-llllhflifi 3'4 0f a 91M to 100 3M5 0f ihc fox in a concentrated form. of spray Just before the blossoms i__ open and after the flower stalks have spread apart is effective. Con- n n» I _ tact dusts containing 5'7» of nlco- . mtélrlnéfsblfl b55333?“ t31e"g:1e':_ “n9 sulphate Wm 115° dc5trO.y\*%_,,terreH‘ to above. The Norwegians insect under favorable conditions. get clear of the trouble by using when applied at the same stage or small mesh wire floors hi“ the); at least reduce it below the dan- have to do a M of woljk 1n keew 3e;- pqlng Elmer dl15flng or Spray’ ing the ground surface beneath ing will destroy the adults. and the wire clean‘ and I understand u °"E1ed 0"" l?“ i“ August‘ m“ use considerable lime as a neu- m awful: P0165“ or flwlck’ In,“ "B1119! t0 i-lle ammonia. There “r e" w‘ men res“ .1“ re " is also consider bi h f‘ f ' . festatlon from neighbouring un- the wire. particimilyc ‘frglugld T; LEO“ l1 OI‘ D. R- Jay, treated orchards. and if done lat- mp5 when wire bottoms He med ‘Vinqloe er some eggs will have been laid. exclusively our ranchers who use -- - Growers should be certain that wire bomfins general, us a mm the damage done by the insect y e L-75G-l0-l9-23-30. will warrant the cost of spraying " W: Z _ ._,___ Eligdsoduslgeiénsfrigrewiktiitetllrgtipglos? I ' “A H w Five Day Short Courses Health and Handicrafts som Pink" application iihrdeaux should not be used on infested trees until the adult apple suckers appear, unless used in conjunction Under the provisions 0i" a grant in assist employ mcnt for unemployed young people between the ages of 18 and 30 years_ the following Short Courses have been ar- " etlmes during the summerIranged by the Department of Agriculture: WELL BILLING Communicate with H. W. Douglas, 33 Orle- bar Street, Charlotte- The shed problem solved the dif- THE EUROPEAN RED ltllTE with nicotine to destroy the months it may sometimes be no- _ ‘ Tryon. October Zaih-Zflih-I-Hcalih 8; Handicraft. nymphs. ticed that the leaves of apple and 9° F" "ell Bream extent 0‘ m“ ' Mi. Stewart, October 25th-~29ih-~-Handic1"afis Rug plum trees, have lost most of _ - their normal deep color and have _mdklng' ‘ _ become paler in appearance. Ex- Cardigan, November Znd-Jiih-V-Handicrafts 8: Rug amined closely the leaf will be making, seen to be covered with i umer- , _ _ _ - _ able mm whmsh blotchexgl? mos,’ More]. Nowmher 8ih~l2ih -~ ilnndlciafis, ling noticeable on the upper surface. maklllf-T- 5-5 ‘he trmlble dQVPlOPS lllYih-‘l’ i118 Kcnsingion, November lfitlr-liith-Henlih 8; Handi- leaves become brown or bronzed cmflq and, from a distance. may appear , " _ w be covered Wm, m... mad (lust Souris (Dale announced lnicr) Health & Handi- In its severest form there may cvcn crafts. be an extensive drop of the leaves, - - _ , _ , ._ , - a dwarfinz. paling and consflluent Tlgnlssrggzgte announwd hi“) " Hmhh ‘\ HUMP reduction in yield of fruit and a further reduction of the next years “set." ' If the leaf from an infested tree be examined beneath a. magnifying glass, there will be found a tiny 8-legged, dark red or blackish, hairy mite, the mouth parts be- ing usually paler in ,coior and white dois on the back at thc base oi the long hairs. In addition to the mites themselves, iiin cast skins of the mites and the tiny particles of voided excrimcnt, will be seen adhering to the loaf. The small red eggs may be found ad- hering to the twigs and smaller branches about bud scars ‘and in crevices. As the blossom hurls show pink in spring they r-mcrgo and feed upon the leaves. Tncrc i are several generations ouch year! which overlap. the entire lift‘ hc- g ing accomplished in about ihrrc i rmiM-Jl-w _-_ WY . .. . weeks during the warmest weather. DOG TAX ARREARS 1 Courses 0n Hcalih will involve czirc in sick rooms. feeding sick, signs of disease, medicines and ircziimcrwi. nursing, personal hygiene, prenatal care, infant feeding. first aid, etc. Handicrafts include glove making". rug illliii- ing-V-color and designs, wool in ihc homc. cic. Transportation charges will hf- paiid; also hoard iii "It? 9X10"! 0i $33-50 per Week for ihciso ziiiunding from oni- side centres. 'l‘hcse nmounis should cover full cosi of sin- dcnts attendance.‘ The (Iourscs offcr :1 rare zmlwriuiiiiy for unemployed young people i0 train themselves for livi- for living conditions and gainful cmplirvmvni. Applicants for aiicndnncc at can-h course should il|l|l|_\' promptly i0 ihc Women's lnsliiuir- iir.-\n<~h_ ('|1.'ll'|uilf'in\\ n “ DEPAR1‘.\'ll5.'\"i‘ or .-\f.'lfl(‘l'l.'|'l‘iti~3, (.'h:li"|0iivi0un. [Eli]. The duration of the egg period Ls from one to two weeks while the mites require about the same length of time to reach the adult stage. The active egg laying period of the adult also extends over twc weeks or more. The eggs are laid on the leaf, being fastened to it. . by a few silken strands. Dry sca- l sons seem to favor their develop- ment. The pest did some sci-ions . damage in the dry season of i921- 24-26. Where the pest is sufflcicntly serious to warrant the applica- tion of special sprays, the applica- tion of the regular summer sprays l of lime sulphur applied when the l blossoms are showing pink, when i“ the petals fall, and two weeks later, will keep it. in check. Win-re danger of burning exists from the . use of this material, wetiable sul- i phur 30 lbs. to 100 gals. seems to i have a very good effect and may be substit ‘ for the last ap- plication the last two ,or for nil of them. A combination of these m ~ . Zl°.l2.“li.il2"..“.3l.§§‘{‘Jiftsflil. was we fvllvivlnz season- sulphur i5 lbs., water 100 gals , ORDER N0“. Sulphur dust has some slight ef- p Brookville Manufacturing 0o. Ltd. fect, but it is not a satisfaciory control. The only other effective i BROOKVILLE. ST. JOHN C0.. N.B. H. G. S. ADAMS, Manager _This Department has been very lenient with L delinquents, but we find our leniency has been l imposed upon. In a few days, we will place ihc ~ amounts in the hands of lfnvyers for collection. L Better save expense and trouble, and pay up L now, as this is the last notice from our Dc- i partment. \ i i THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRlCUI/ITRl-I LIME Liming land in the Fall means hotter grain remedy is a dormant, spray of miscible oll or oil emulsion. in application of such oll spray appears to be the most satisfactory remedy. AGRICULTURE’! . - m. 34.41"», ‘