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Show Valuable Fruit Llttt. Many mistakes are made In the planting of fruit trees because the planters do not take advantage of the opportunities J.'Afcy havo for the securing se-curing of reliable Information on varieties. va-rieties. Our state experiment stations and state horticultural societies have at great oxponsoand after years of labor prepared lists of tho fruits that aro reasonably certain to do well on tho soils of the state. One of tho states, Indiana, has prepared this list according to counties, and thlB is a very great help whon the farmer Is preparing to set out an orchard of any kind of fruit. Tho lists are of courso not complete, as It Is manifestly impossible im-possible to Include vnrletles that will do well in a part of tho state, but aro not certain to do well in all. Except whore lists are fitted to suit counties instead of states, tho varieties recommended recom-mended are such as will give good results within tho limits of tho Btate for which they aro made. In a stato like Illinois, nenrly 400 . miles In length, the arlatlon of soil and climate cli-mate Is very grpat. This has led the Illinois State Horticultural Society to divide the stato into thrco portions ft known as the northern, tho central Mf and tho southern parts. For each of P f these three sections there Is a differ-I differ-I ent list. Tho tree planter has a very difficult problem to handlo when he tries to chooso between varletlos. Ho needs to make careful and continued inquiry. Especially must he study the varieties that aro grown In his neighborhood, neigh-borhood, if there are any such. The states differ enormously In their fruit lists. Thus east of Indiana tho Baldwin is found among tho number of recommended varieties. Of It the Ohio list says: "One of tho best winter win-ter apples for tho northern part of tho state, but Is a fall apple in southern south-ern counties. Very prolific, bears every ev-ery other year, not seriously affected by applo scab." It would bo a great mistake for a Wisconsin grower to take this as sultablo for his state. If ho planted an orchard of Baldwin trees ho would doubtless havo cause to regret It. His orchard would bo killed out by somo of tho dry winters and ho would pronounce npplo growing grow-ing a failure. But the fault would bo with himsolf In not haying selected select-ed the proper variety or varletlos. This is especially true of plums. Tho Ohio list puts Abundance (a Japanese variety) va-riety) at the head of recommended plums. This might do for any locality lo-cality south of Chicago and north of Tennessee, but It would bo misleading mislead-ing It applied in Wisconsin or Minnesota. Minne-sota. Incidentally it may be remarked that Heomo of our states are behind In this work and some that have completed lists have admitted varieties that are in dispute as to their adaptability. Thus we notice somo of tho Japanese plums in the Wisconsin list, while some of te leading plum growers In that state declare that Japanese plums there succeed only in very favorable locations and do not do well as a general thing. Strawberry Enemies. In common with all other domestic fruits' tho strawberry has Its insect and fungus enemies, says a strawberry straw-berry grower. Among tho more destructive de-structive of the former aro the white grubs, a name given to the larval stages of tho different specie's of the Juno beetles. As theso work no apparent ap-parent Injury until tho patch Is two years old, it is advisable where Injury it Hablo to occur to plow under tho patch as soon as the first crop Is harvested. har-vested. Other Insect,, pests are the Strawberry Sawfly, or slug, and the Strawberry Leaf Roller. Theso may be controlled to a certain extent by spraying. Ilust, or Strawberry Leaf L Blight, as it is commonly called, is perhaps tho most destructive enemy of strawberry culture. This disease If not checked, Boon spreads all over tho leaves and attacks the fruit stems, often completely girdling them, cnuo Ing them to shrivel upland tho ber-rlos ber-rlos aro consequently useless. Fifty per cent of the crop Is often lost from thlB cause Tho most satisfactory romody for this evil Is spraying with tho Bordeaux mixture, which should bo applied In July or August of the previous year and before and after blossoming of the fruiting season. I i Michigan Fruit Prospects." Tho Michigan Department of Agriculture Agri-culture reports tho fruit conditions of tho stato to bo ns follows: Prospects for an nvcrngo crop of apples, CO per cent: peaches, 35 per cent; pears, 38 per cent; grapes, 71 per cent; blnck raspberries, 85 per cent; orchards that aro cultivated, 38 per cent; trees alive from last spring's setting, 85 per cent. Fourteen counties aro Included In the Michigan fruit bolt. Tho prospects In these for a full crop of peaches are ns follows: Allegan, 23; Beirlen, 27; Ionia, 10; Kent. 21; Ottawa, 20; Van Buren, 24; Muskegon, 43; Newaygo, 44; Ocenna, CC; Benlo, 40; Qrund Traverse, C2; ManlEteo, 33; Mnson, CO; Leelanau, 51; averago for Mlchlgun I fruit bolt. 30. |
