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  • The Codling Moth In The Packing House

    R. R. PAILTHORP, PETOSKEY. Thousands of dollars are lost annually by the fruit growers of Michigan through their neglect and carelessness in fumigating. their storage and packing houses. The codling moth, the most serious insect enemy of the apple, winters over in such sheltered places, as well as under the bark on the trees. The […]

  • Varieties For The Commercial Peach Orchard

    ALBERT J. OLNEY, REEMAN. In the selection of varieties for the commercial peach orchard there are a few factors upon which the success or failure of an orchard depend. A study of the conditions in Michigan show that orchard after orchard is set every spring with poor varieties. First of all we desire to raise […]

  • Apple Breeding

    R. E. LOREE, EAST LANSING. The subject of apple breeding should be of interest to every Michigan apple grower, and, I am sure that it is worthy of our serious consideration. A few facts may be of interest to show what has been accomplished in this particular branch of horticulture. In the “Apples of New […]

  • The History Of The American Grape

    A. H. HENDRICKSON, GRAND RAPIDS. Nowhere in the history of American fruit-growing is there a story as romantic or as fascinating as the history of the American Grape. It is a story full of vicissitudes, vain endeavors, and repeated failures which were at last superseded by complete success. From the first America was known as […]

  • Needs Of Michigan Horticulture

    P. L. GRANGER, LEXINGTON. “Michigan as a fruit state is a back number.” Do you believe this? Is that putting it too strong? Anyway that is the essence of a prominent two-column article in a national fruit magazine of over one hundred thousand circulation. And the men who were responsible for that expression are, I […]

  • How Best To Feed The Apple Orchard

    LUTHER E. HALL, IONIA. Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen—When your Secretary asked me to .prepare something on this topic, he intimated that he would like to have it very brief and to the point. Now the topic of feeding the apple orchard may be made very brief, and I will try to be brief, but […]

  • Baldwin Fruit Spot

    W. S. FIELDS, BUFFALO, N. Y. The Baldwin Fruit Spot is a disease, so-called perhaps because it occurs on this variety more than on any other. But the specimens which I have in my hand are Northern Spies affected with this disease. This fruit spot is called by various names and is confused with “Sooty […]

  • Pedigree Trees

    C. C. CARSTENS, MICHIGAN CITY, INDIANA. “Breed is more than feed.” This expression applies to all domesticated animals, and a horse, a cow, a pig, or a dog is valued according to its pedigree. By the term pedigree we refer to the genealogy, the descent or in simpler terms, a pedigree is the record of […]

  • The Apple Package – Boxes Or Barrels

    L. C. CAREY, CHARLEVOIX. Shall the box supplant the barrel as the standard apple package? This question has confronted the eastern apple growers almost continuously since western apples in boxes began to compete with eastern barrel-packed apples some fifteen years ago. It has nettled the easterner to see a bushel box of Washington apples sell […]

  • Top Working Orchard Trees

    T. F. BAKER, GRAND HAVEN. The top working of orchard trees is becoming more widely practiced by up-to-date scientific orchardists every year. Many orchards, especially those planted before the era of scientific horticulture in Michigan, are found unsuitable to the climate and other environmental conditions about them. To take out these old orchards and rejuvenate […]

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