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Lee cartes, planchea. tableaux, etc.. pauvent Atra fiim4e A dee taux da r4ductril 8, IHU.!.) 1 No perscn in sprayinR or Bprinkling fruit treea, during the period within which su^htreeB are" n full bloom, .hall use or caune to be u.ed any mixture cou- ^ tftininK Paris areen or any other poisonous subbtance inj urinn.i tob<<». ^TAVperB?," contravening the provisions of this Act «»l«l'' "" ^"'"^[y ^Te-s viption thereof before a just ce of the peace, be subject ta«t ten vedtrs. Fruit-growers in his district delay spraying until after the blossoms fall and are favorable to this Bill Mr. P. C. Dempsay, fruit grower, Trenton : Had sprayed for over thirty years ; with Paria green for only fi veor six, Sprayed only after bloBsoms fall. Since he had sprayed he would not find in 50 barrels of apples one barrel of bad ones, whercHS before spraying was intro- duced it would have been difficult togtt that number of really good ones. As to injury to bees, he keeps 150 colonies of beca right in his orchard, and has never seen any of them suffer on account of spraying. Never sprayed during bloom. Ho sometimes sprays cherries and plums before the petals drop. He believed a Bill pro- hibiting spraying while in full bloom would be a benefit. Oapt. Felan, fruit grower, Oakville : The preper time to spray is when the blossoms fall. He did not think this Bill would injure fruit growers. He is the only man in his section who sprays. Mr. G. E. Fisher, fruitgrower, Burlington : His experience corres- ponded to Mr. Peart's. We are very generally dependent upon insects for the fertilization of our orchards. To destroy them to any extent would be very injupous to fruit-growers. He thought this Bill is just what fruit-growers require. U a man does not know enough not to spray while his trees are in full bloom there should bs an Act to pre- vent him from doing so, He had had no experience as to bees being injured by Paris green. A gentleman in Burlington told him that one of his neighbors used Paris green on his trees while in full bloom, and while it was going on he noticed that many of the bees died. Mr. Theo. Woodruff, fruit-grower, Niagara Falls, thought that trees, especially the plum tree and cherry tree, should be sprayed when the blossom is going off", but not when it is in fall blooaa. His experience is that ho did not get perfect fruit by spraying after the blossoms had gone. He believed thaf as soon as the fruit is formed it gets too hard for curculio to work in. He thought the bees robbed his orchard every year, and was certain that they carry "the yellows" from one section to another. Fruit growers should opp93e th»t Act. He did not believe you could draw the line as to when trees are in full bloom. Mr. E, Morden, fruit-grower, Niagara Falls, had never yet heard a speaker who advocated spraying in full bloom. The codling moth and curculio do not deposit eggs on the blossom, but on the calyx of the embryo fruit. The curculios do not appear until about a week after the blossoms fall ; then they are very numerous for about ton days, after which they become comparatively rare. It is during these ten days that we ought to spray. As to the canker-worm, spraying should be done before full bloom. Articles were produced, written by fruit men, alvocdting spraying only after full bloom. Mr. Kew, fruit-grower, of Be^msville, thought sufficient evidence ha(^ been given to show that the bee's would be injured b^ the v.?^. of poidonous substances at an improper time. There would be a diffioulty as to peaches, which ho preferred to spray while the bloom is on. He thought fruit-growerd should be allowed to Use their own experience. n Prof Jas. Hetcber, Dominion Etxtomolo;*ouId destroy it and prevent the formation of fruit Bees are much more easily killed than other insects. There is no accurately recorded experiment as so whether or not bees have baen killed by spraying. An experiment has baen arranged. He .liJ not believe the honey is at all allected. The pDison taken by the bse is m the nectar that comes from the Mowers and before the b-o can deposit It the bee is .lead, so that the honey in .juestion u never deposited. Iwen if the bee did not die befiore depMitiny it this lioney is used not for HuipluH, but for feeding the younc As to spraying, if you wait until the flowers are all gone you will cover the canker-worm and all the inects that he new of except the bud-worm and m the case of the bud-worm he thought it would be necessary to epray before the Hower is open. As to the codling-moth and the curculio, there i.s no possible use in spraying for them while the fruit 18 in flower. In California the insects injure the fruit right up to the time that it is full grown. He did not think there would be any use in spraying the cherry until it is the siz'e of an ordinirvr p3a Apple tree? remain in Hower about a week. The egas are not laid until the ilowers are in full bloom. Wait till they all drop before spraymg. Beei do not visit fruit in dull weither, anl then w,» .^h little fruit m consequence. As to bees injuring fruit there is "no direct evidence. Wasps may start the work, and then bees continue It. \\ e have never been able to And a case of primary injury by bees. As to their carrying «• the yellows," that is a poin^ requiring serious consideration, as we do not even know what •' the yellows " are. He drew attention to the false statements of the English press tliat our apples are poisoned from their absorbing arsenic The statement is absurd The physiology of the plant render, such a thing impossible. The pistil of the apple cannot absorb arsenic or any other poison If we could only get our farmers to spray more r*r" >-n r! ^f^^^' ^■"''^ ''"^P' "« ^'^^^S'^t there was nothing m this l>ill but advantage to the fri it-grower. II ^''°^f • ^' .^'*°*P"' Entomologist, Agricultural Oollege, Guelph : lie could not imagine that anyone was doing what this Bill prohibits In all cases of spraying that had come under his observation it was invariably the rule not to spray during bloom. But if there are people who will persist in doing such a thing he should certainly think It necessary to have a bill to prevent it, and to protect others This Bill is in accordance with the teachings of all science. MLSCKrXANFOITS VVTBAOrra The CoDLiNG.MoTH. The eggs are laid on the young fruit at the blossom end, in the cup left by (lie fallen flower, and in about a week or ten days the larva hatches. Egg-laying continues about ..UtLniih °eLcr«W '?L •«<''''^P'","- 8»«ing ,„,„ right the .Cdl»^ .0 ?ru? "u C:ur, tJ' L""?' »"V'«"'"."« in?hTvL^-^;;'^*/fi.''.*'^''"*'°™P'*»"«^^"t'»>'»t the growinir of fruit report of the Ool" »lt „rASTttf L'^issf "h "'"^'' "3 '?*>