D. W. Kauffman, of Des Moines, Iowa, writes to the Iowa Homestead that ashes are worth one dollar per bushel to put about fruit trees, and that he would not sell his ashes at that price and do without their use in the orchard. He has used ashes about fruit trees for fifteen years, and during that time has never seen a borer where ashes were used. The borer is a terrible pest to the fruit-grower, and if ail other impediments to successful growing were as easily overcome and completely controlled as the borer, then fruit growing would be very successfully practiced.

At the recent meeting of the Fruit-growers' Association of Ontario, Mr. Moodie stated that he had been in the habit of using unleached ashes as a manure for his fruit trees, and that he values them more highly for this purpose than barn-yard manure. If our farmers knew the value of wood ashes for the garden and orchard and farm, they would not sell them for a few cents per bushel. The ashes that they barter for a few pounds of soap would. if applied to the soil, so increase their crops of fruit and grain as to yield ten times the value they now get for them.